Week 53

Summary:

This week, meetings with INF2260 students took place, looking at Oria improvements and SciFi community building. Furthermore, all project members participated in a project update and planning meeting.

Specific meetings, including:

• Meeting with INF2260 student group 1 (“SciFi community building”)
  • Pitch of three ideas:
    • “A World without Sci-Fi”
      • Make clear what a world looks like without Sci Fi.
      • Target group: people familiar w/library, not with the collection
      • Function: tech labyrinth, make choices (“paradise” game) - “step on answer” (pressure sensors, programmed path), gamification, use of videos
        • Trace developments to books, present in new way, generate interest, entertain
    • “Take library to a galaxy far away”
      • Pop-up library.
      • Target: non-users of library
      • Function: info via digital installation (showroom). Generate analytics, e.g. eye tracking
        • Gather data for library to understand users better
    • “Sci-Fi Express”’
      • Sharing concept, “boxes” with books put in different places. People can take books and read them, and leave them in another box. Visualization and community-building.
      • Target: users of library interested in sci-fi (potentially also non-users)
      • Function: book banks, box with info screen, unlock mechanism (Arduino-based, they have experience with it). Can build on previous experience with pop-up library system.
  • Since the second option (pop-up library) was already done by the Science Library, the students will further work on option 1 and 3, and choose between them.
• Planning the Biokonferansen touch table app (Hugo, Kirsten)
  • Creating an application for the BIO-konferansen 2017 , deciding on theme (symbiosis) and content
• Meeting with INF2260 student group 2 (“Oria redesign”)
  • Conducted interviews with 8-9 students (BA/MA)
    • Will provide us with their feedback on Oria
  • Will test using eye tracker
  • Pitch of four ideas
    • “New UI”: changes (UiO or specifically for Science Lib)
    • “Interactive Map”: “be in the library”
    • “Detail view”: have gotten feedback on detail view Oria, experiment with placement and sizing
    • “New functionality exploration”: allow for new strategies to search literature
  • Will likely go for 1st or 3rd proposed idea
• Explore touch screen options (Hugo, Kyrre)
  • Determine which touch screens could serve as a replacement or extension of our touch table
• Project meeting (Live, Helge, Nina, Hugo, Dan Michael, Kyrre)
  • Update on ongoing work over Summer
    • Prototype development, logging Oria statistics, INF2260 projects, shareable applications, emnesok issues
  • Planning update
    • Dissemination and outreach (organizing a workshop), exploration prototypes, supporting INF2260 projects, infrastructure
  • Project budget discussion
    • Possibilities for additional touch screens
    • Perhaps go for tilted touch screen (or hang on wall)
• Tech and workshop planning meeting (Kyrre, Hugo, Dan Michael)
  • Planning the preparations for the touch screen app creation workshop on 20 November