Summary:
These two weeks, project members attended a conference, worked on preparing a touch table application and on a framework to ease the creation of touch table applications. Also, a workshop on the creation of touch apps was prepared, taking place on 20 November 2017.
Specific meetings, including:
- Attending part of the NFF Story Space conference
- This conference focused on strategies for dissemination using new digital technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality, in contexts such as media, literature and art. This is summarized in a news post on the Visual Navigation Project website: "Hamlet on the Holodeck": NFF Interactive Storyspace Symposium
- Planning the Biokonferansen touch table app
- Creating an application for the BIO-konferansen 2017, gathering and organizing content
- Skype meeting Winoe Bhikharie (preparation for XIMPEL workshop on 20 November
Specific activities, including:
- Preparation of touch app creation workshop 20 November (Hugo, Dan Michael, Kyrre)
- Devise draft program and title
- Create event page on Visual Navigation Project: Workshop: Engaging the User - Creating Touch Applications in a Library Context using XIMPEL
- Start communicating about workshop (inviting specific people, post on Twitter, gathering mailing lists)
- Start creating workshop materials, including XIMPEL templates, and share earlier work and XIMPEL extensions.
- Develop visual navigation prototypes further for potential inclusion in the workshop.