Thursday, 14 March 2013

TUIO - Touchscreen technologies for Tabletop applications (14 March 2013)

Cruiser Framework
http://chai.it.usyd.edu.au/Projects/Cruiser

Reusable Software Framework for developing Tabletop applications


What am I trying to do?

Create draggable microstories, draggable images, and buttons that might highlight sections of the map.

Layers:

Interactions
Content
CSS
Javascript framework
Cruiser framework
TUIO
Browser - Chrome
Windows

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Processing.org

TUIO Library for Processing
http://jlyst.com/tz/

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TUIO - Technologies
http://www.tuio.org/?software

TUIO Flash Library

http://bubblebird.at/tuioflash/guides/using-the-tuiomanager/

Get Interactive working in Flash with AS3
(Best for a visual interface/sound)

Install AIR beta

TUIO Manager
two custom even classes are:
TuioTouchEvent
TuioEvent

Install AIR SDK

Install FLEX SDK

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Planning - Proposal/Main Stories - PG04 (14 March 2013)


Revise A4 Proposal

Read on how to write a proposal text.

Invite 1-2 more organisations to the presentation
Choose 3-5 sites, maximum.

Greenwich Industrial Microstories
- stories that can be said in 30 seconds.

5 Story Folders

What are the 5 most important stories for the area?

Ask Mary to speak out condensed micro stories
- would require her to prepare versions for:
1.Enderby Wharf - Telcon Cable Factory
2.Thames Soap and Candle Co.
3.Anchor Iron wharf?
4.Delta Metal and the Ice Factory
5.Blackwall Point Tide Mill

others:
Tar Works - Sussex Wharf
Point Wharf - Lewis and Stockwell Shipyard
Greenwich Linoleum Works
Blakely Gun Factory
Phoenix Jetty
Frank Hills Chemical Works
Nortons Barge Yard
Improved Wood Paving Co.
Greenwich Sawmills - Imperial Wharf
Gas Holders
Portland Cement Works
Bay Wharf - Horseshoe Breach
Granite Wharf - J.Mowlem
Lovells Wharf - Tide Mill
Power Station
Corbetts Boat Yard
Ammunition Works
Angerstein Wharf
Tunnel House
Amylum Tunnel Refineries
Victoria Deep Wharf
The Pilot Inn
Dreadnought School


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"A history of making things in North Greenwich"

Start building the Interactive Prototype
Build in Analytics
Elements of tQuery? - run locally
Large image as presentation layer
Interactive elements as css/js.

Prepare for Interview with Mary Mills

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

PG04 Actions (13 March 2013)

1.WRITE AN A4 PROPOSAL (300 words)
to send to (invite to the presentation)

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2.SEND A4 PROPOSAL TO: (SUGGESTED CLIENTS)
Mary Mills?

CISCO
NMM
GREENWICH COUNCIL
RAVENSBOURNE

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3.ARRANGE INTERVIEW with Mary Mills

Book CLR equipment for Interview.

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4.WRITE RESEARCH PROPOSAL - 2500 words
Research Question.
How I will test the theory with the data.

Literature Review - should be at least 500 words.
2 books/2 people/1 case study

Test strategies/Add to the framework.

Who is doing the same thing in the same area?

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5.TABLE TOUCHSCREEN

User Testing

Table Touchscreen - contact Will
cc
User Manual
Drivers
Content - Software
Built-in PC

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http://old.gold.ac.uk/world/millen/peninsula.html

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Visit to Greenwich Tourist Office:

E-marketing
alanbarker@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Tourism Office
wendytang@royalgreenwich.gov.uk


Suggested Project Titles: (Add into Blog)
Greenwich Marsh Stories
Bugsby's Reach
Industrial Greenwich
Industrial Peninsula
Industrial Stories
Greenwich Industrial Heritage Stories
Industrial Heritage Stories of North Greenwich
Innovative History
Stories of Inventive Greenwich
Invention and Ingenuity
Innovation and Industry in North Greenwich
A history of Innovation in North Greenwich


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Contact Chris Thompson - for a contact at Greenwich Council.
- Industrial Heritage/Tourism.

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Ask for Photos to be reproduced, by Mark Goffe?
- credit


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TUIO Framework
http://www.tuio.org/?members





Monday, 11 March 2013

How to conduct User Research (11 March 2013)

How to conduct User Research

https://www.uie.com/articles/starting_user_research/
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/services/user-research.shtml
http://www.uxmatters.com/topics/user-research/
http://boxesandarrows.com/extreme-user-research/
http://www.gurtle.com/ppov/2009/12/06/a-summary-of-user-research-methods

Direct User Contact - where researcher interacts with users/audience
Also known as IDI - Individual depth interview - conducted in users context.
Structured or Semi-structured.
Proxy Interview/Key informant/Intermediary interview

Focus Group
Small group discussion
Storytelling sessions - Anecdote circles

Workshops

Card sorting - IA design technique, research audience mental models.
http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/cardsorting/blog/card_sort_analysis_spreadsheet/

Product Reaction Cards
Contextual inquiry - unstructured inquiry
Visual Anthropology - photograph environment and behaviour of audience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Example of an Ethnographic film

Shadowing
Researcher follows his participants around as they undertake tasks

A word on Ethnography

Ethnography is the practice of immersing oneself in the world or culture that one is studying. This means you go into the field to observe their rituals and behaviour in their “natural setting”, but also that you take your subjects’ perspective when analysing and reporting. Thus, these methods very much belong in the direct user contact category. (Note: the term “ethnography” is also used to refer to the resulting written account of the research)

While there is much academic debate about what is or isn’t Ethnography, my take is that any of the methods on this page that involve collecting data straight from the audience an appropriate environment—that is not a usability lab—can be considered ethnographic methods. For a more in-depth explanation of ethnography, watch this video

Indirect User Contact

Content inventory - content audit
Heuristic evaluation - user assesses system based on set of usability guidelines
Competitor review - comparison through heuristic review
Questionnaires and surveys
Panels
Analytics - good to add onto prototype. / Eyetracking / Heatmaps.
Workplace observation
Photo ethnography - self-reporting from the user
Cultural probes - creating a kit for participants to record their lives.
good when there isnt much contact with the participant.
Virtual ethnography - monitoring blogs, discussion forums, and social networking applications.

Evaluative Methods

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Sunday, 10 March 2013

Client List/Understanding of Mission/Audience (10 March 2013)

CLIENT 1: Royal Borough of Greenwich (Greenwich Council)
http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/site/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 2: Museum of London
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Docklands/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 3:  National Maritime Museum
http://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 4: Greenwich Heritage Centre
http://www.greenwichheritage.org/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 5: Alcatel Lucent (Cable Telecommunications)
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 6: Greenwich Industrial History Society (GIHS)
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=britishhistory;id=4;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgihs.gold.ac.uk%2F
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 7: GMV (Greenwich Millenium Village)
http://gmv.gb.com/
Mission:
Audience:
NOT VISIT

CLIENT 8: Greenwich Royal Tours, Walking Tours
http://www.greenwichroyaltours.com/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 9: Greenwich Tourist Information Centre (Visit Greenwich)
http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/tourist-information-centre
(They have a table touchscreen!)
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 10: Visit Greenwich
http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk
(Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site Marketing Group)
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 11: o2/AEG
http://www.theo2.co.uk/
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 12: Greenwich Society
http://greenwichsociety.org.uk/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT?)

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Research Sources (prep for Methods and Methodologies) - 10 March 2013

Research sources!

Primary sources (are created for the first time)
- Interview with Mary Mills
- Questionairre(s) - with users, public, or companies?
- Site visit - Greenwich Peninsula
- Site visit - The Mill
- Site visit - Light, Hayward Gallery
- Site visit - Docklands Museum (to visit)
- Site visit - Greenwich Heritage Centre
- Special Interest Group Meetup - Interactive Narratives, Southbank
- Conversations - Robert Pratten - TStoryteller

Secondary sources:
- Desktop Research - Google
- Related Books - at Ravensbourne/other libraries
- Greenwich Heritage Centre - Search Room - Scans of Prints

- Films - on Greenwich Peninsula? Enderby Wharf / Community
- Documentaries - on Greenwich Peninsula? Enderby Wharf / Telegraph / Community

Book material:
Glassner, A (2004) Interactive Storytelling – Techniques for 21st Century Fiction, AK Peters, Natick, Massachusetts, USA (TO RECHECK)

Online materials:

[Winston, J 1999, A look at referencing, AAA Educational Services, accessed 20 October 2002, <http://www.aaa.edu.au/aaa.html>.]

Slaney, Malcolm (2013) Visions and Views: Micro Stories and Mega Stories, IEEE MultiMedia (Microsoft)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06461362


Theories:
Attention deficit
Need for interaction in museums

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