Fluid Engage Roadmap Q3
Fluid is always looking for volunteers and we're always refining our roadmap. If you are interested in participating in the community, please get in touch with us and we will work with you to get started on some exciting solutions.
Roadmapping is an activity largely influenced by the conversations we have about how our work fits together and how we can organize ourselves logically. This is a living document.
Micro-engagements (looking ahead to Q4)
Our goals in Q3 are intended to help us build the foundation to support "micro-engagements" with our museum grant partners. Micro-engagements are small, subprojects within Fluid Engage that we will work on with our grant partner museums. These micro-engagements will be articulated around a local need and will give us an opportunity to work on integration while we ground our development and design in real use-cases.
This quarter we will be working closely with the museum partners to articulate these micro-engagements in preparation for integration activities in Q4.
The following are some early thoughts for micro-engagements with each of our core-museum partners. These ideas are early and will become clearer as we work more closely with our museum partners on the project.
McCord |
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McCord has expressed an interest in working with the mobile FSS system as well as extending their in-house solutions toward an RFID-based system.
get to production-ized mobile solution
collections
tagging
keeping an eye on RFID
MMI |
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Jason shared an email with us that outlined some very, very early thoughts for a micro-engagement.
tagging
collecting
digital souvenir
From the email:
"#1: Primarily, we started thinking about how video as artifact support could
be really useful. You'll see when you visit, but we do have some monitors
that loop a clip or two to show an artifact in its original context, but we
don't want to (or have the money or the space to) dedicate a monitor to
every single object on the floor of the gallery. Instead, visitors could
access the video on their own devices.
#2: the Magic Window. What would be cool and useful is the ability to frame
an object with your mobile device's camera, have the device recognize the
object, and then have the ability to "click" it and have the artifact info
(including video) pop up. The metaphor is the Magic Window, as if it's a
window you are peering through into an alternate reality."
DIA |
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Through initial conversations with the DIA staff, it seems as though there is an opportunity to extend some of their "interpretives" with technology. One such area might be to enable the staff to extend the "Family Fitting Room" digitally.
museum staff tour creation tools, with a gentle small step towards putting it in the hands of the user
start on achieving this by first working on a tagged map
Visits
We have made a visit to the McCord Museum and we have a few teams that will be visiting the MMI and DIA in this quarter to get more in-depth information about context, capabilities, and goals.
Teams for visits:
DIA | MMI |
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Colin | James |
Justin | Erin |
James | Michelle |
Alison | Jess |
working team: Tona | working team: Vicki |
Tagging
view, browse, tag, and collection of objects in an exhibit
in this order – the above will be our focus for tagging work in anticipation of Engage 0.1 (released end of September?)
Though vaguely defined here, our first order of business is to clarify our approach to these ways of interacting with objects and then work on producing solutions in this area.
development continue the work on the exhibits and objects components in the following areas
Browsing, searching, collecting, tagging, view
related artifacts
design will work on creating early wireframes inspired by the mobile wireframes and the interactions with tags in there.