{"id":194,"date":"2020-09-13T22:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T22:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/museum-live\/?p=194"},"modified":"2020-09-13T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T22:42:46","slug":"week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/museum-live\/index.php\/2020\/09\/13\/week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monday August 31st marked the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester at the ETC. The Fall 2020 semester marks a number of firsts: the first fully-remote semester, the first semester with furloughed\/half-time staff, etc. In other ways, this semester will be just like any other fall semester at the ETC: teams will begin working together effectively, clients will arrive with expectations, and individual students will struggle to find jobs to make their grad-school investment worth the cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This website and blog document the progress of Museum.Live: a project building a \u201cstorytelling platform\/tool\u201d intended for use with the constituent staff of 5 Pittsburgh-based Museums in order to execute virtual museum experiences. For 8 weeks in the summer, a team of 4 ETC students researched, designed, and playtested initial platforms and protocol for this \u201cstorytelling platform.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights of the Pre-production package include<\/span>:
-Virtual Tour Protocol: Museum Hosts lead tours in Zoom and share their screen to show guests images\/media from a museum-specific website that stores and presents media.\u00a0
-Zoom Platform: The gold standard for video conferencing, was chosen for user familiarity and 2-way conversations
-A website mockup built in Figma: Key features include upload, organize, museum branding, and full-screen viewing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pre-Production package contents. Figma prototype not pictured<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The current team is tasked with building and producing the remainder of the platform based on this initial work.
Deliverables for the fall semester could look as follows:<\/span>
-Working and Usable Website: an online and hosted website\/Git Repo that can be deployed to the hosting solution of each museum\u2019s choice
-Design Documentation: Checklists\/guidelines for Museum staff to reference in executing a virtual museum tour based on research collected in the early weeks of the fall project. 
-Sample Virtual Tours: recorded and possibly taught to Museum Staff <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By discipline, some highlights of Week 1 appear as follows. 
Design<\/span>: 
-Settled on a first prototype that resembles the Figma prototype but is fully online 
-Begun a fully-exhaustive Service design document\/User Experience Journey map 
-Scheduled Virtual tours at 4 different museums (Tenement Museum, Fallingwater, Poe Museum, and the Louvre)
-Drafts of initial design pillars\/axioms <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tech\/Art<\/span>:
-Began research on platforms (Hosting services, CMS, Front-end\/Back-end frameworks, website architectures) 
-Scheduled meetings with ETC faculty with Web Dev experience (Bryan Maher, Steve Audia, Michael Christel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production<\/span>: 
-Selected team roles 
-Set up foundation of Pipeline\/Sprints 
-Set up organizational tools
-Google Drive (including Archive of Summer work)
-Slack 
-Scheduled Initial Faculty Meeting and Client Meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2020 Project Team and Roles<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the week was productive. There remained some uncertainty as to how well a fully-remote ETC team would fare. This was echoed in some initial ETC correspondence. Things were different, but at least we students aren\u2019t alone in that sentiment. I remain optimistic, but cautious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goals for next week include:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
-Pick website development tools\u00a0
-Make Gold Spike to test pipeline
-Break down the Figma Prototype into discrete website features
-Translate discrete features into the Gold Spike<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Team name brainstorm. <\/em>
Final Team name is <\/em>Museum.Live<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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