Research Archives – Page 2 of 2 – Sinead O'Brien, eSTEAMed

Personalized avatar using svg.js

This is the first of a series of posts looking at each of the different visualization types created for the MeSch museum post-visit visualization tool. Click here for overview. Each museum visitor can get a postcard with a 11 character string in the format ABC-123-1234. This string is their unique passcode and can be used to access the digital post-visit visualization tool and view further information about their physical visit. One of the many visualizations developed for this online platform is the somewhat abstract SVG character visualization. A unique and personalised character to playfully represent the visitor. This specific idea was proposed by a group of Sheffield Hallam University students tasked with coming up with various ways of representing museum visitors visit visually.

pictures of post visit postcard, how to use passcode on postcard on website, invitation to add your own memories

Atlantic Wall post-visit website

“The Hague and the Atlantic Wall: War in the City of Peace” was a museum exhibition which ran from April to October in 2015 at Museon in the city of The Hague, in The Netherlands. The Atlantic Wall was a set of the defensive lines and placements that were built by the German forces during WWII along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea, from Norway to the French/Spanish border. The wall consisted of a 5,000 km long chain of bunkers, anti-tank walls, cliffs and other barriers and was aimed at preventing an Allied attack on the Reich’s Western frontiers. This exhibition focused specifically on the Atlantic Wall in The Hague and the impact of its construction on the city and its inhabitants. Visitors were tracked as they interacted with the exhibition and once they had completed their visit they could visit a checkout point and print themselves a personalized visit souvenir postcard.

Data Visualizations Design Research

meSch Post Visit Website

Introduction

The idea of allowing users to extend their visit is very popular with Museum officials at present. The meSch post-visit visualization tool was designed to explore how elements from an exhibition could be combined with information from a users visit to provide a personalized hyper-visual interface. The hope being it would allow the visitor:

Data Visualizations Design Research

From Instagram: Trying to find a way to put all this in words. #mesch #visualisation #postvisit

Post museum visit visualisations. This image has been automagically pulled from my Instagram feed here

Code Data Visualizations Research

Create Kibana visualizations and dashboards dynamically

If you've used Kibana, then you probably know how easy it is to create a dashboard via the GUI. What you may not know is that it is also possible to dynamically create kibana dashboards and visualizations! It is as easy as making a curl request.

Code Research WordPress

iStep in action

What is iStep

iStep is a web based intervention developed by Sheffield Hallam University as part of the EU funded project Innovage. Its aims were to both promote and enable healthy, active lifestyles towards a reduction in levels of problematic obesity in increasingly aging populations. iStep stands for 'Intergenerational Support To Encourage Physical Activity'. The iStep tool was designed to allow a younger and an older person to form a partnerships and track their physical activity. Two people would pair up to form a dyad. They could then compete against other pairs to complete a challenge. Users of the system could see how much activity they had done, compare their progress with other dyads teams, and work towards a series of collective goals, by logging onto the on-line iStep environment.

How does iStep work?

The videos below illustrate each stage of using the iStep platform.

Design Making Research

From Instagram: Demolding smart objects for Museo della Guerra #meschproject

This image has been automagically pulled from my Instagram feed here These resin smart objects have NFC tags embedded in them. Content is triggered when they are placed on meSch…

Code Data Visualizations Research

Google Maps API V3 Demos

The following demos may prove useful to someone. The are based on one of the WordPress plugins built for the Innovage iStep European project. Click on the link below each…

Data Visualizations Research Tech Toys

From Instagram: Back in the office reading up on data visualisations @meschproject #makies

This image has been automagically pulled from my Instagram feed here

Atlantic Wall exhibition end of visit interactive table and checkout point

Code Data Visualizations Design Research

The Hague and the Atlantic Wall

On April 10th, 2015, the first meSch enhanced exhibition opened to the public at Museon, a Dutch museum. ‘The Hague and the Atlantic Wall – War in the City of…

Code Research WordPress

Innovage iStep

Originally this post linked to the sites hosting the iStep web-based intervention. The Innovage project has now ended. As a result, the original test site and live site sites for…

Code Research WordPress

Add tab to Group in Buddypress – WordPress

So.. you need to add a tab and associated page to the BuddyPress Group single post page. I recently needed to do this for a pedometer plugin I'm working on…