amyjdoughty design

Direct links to the google research - see your downloaded pdf for more infomration https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/5230/136.pdf

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/43662/how-has-google-affected-the-way-students-learn

Here is a link to all the VL stuff. Interesting topics about how it can enhance learning and that with the way kids use the internet for their information - we don’t need more info we need lessons.... hm... see downloaded pdfs for full info https://www.teachthought.com/about/

https://blog.visme.co/visual-literacy-visual-communication-content-marketing/

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JD-08-2017-0119?fullSc=1&journalCode=jd

•What is age appropriate for learning?

•What kind of learning modules are needed for that age?

•How is the problems of visual literacy being address now?

•What does stand-alone mean? How is something considered stand-alone?

•Does stand-alone do better for learning at that age?

•How do I draw connections between what they already know what what they are learning?

•What is the learning capability and what is already intuitively known?

•What differences do kids have with visual literacy verse adults?

•How do we take what they are learning and have them “keep it?”

•How do we make it meaningful for the kids?

•What about being inclusive – Do I need to create something for all visual disabilities?

•What is in it for the museums?

•What do they do now to have kids interact?

•What are the learning modules they teach?

•What types of work would be best to enhance visual literacy?

•What types of specific technology, devices, tools, solutions, etc. do they use now?

•What goals do they have and how do they measure success?

•What is the most challenging part with kids in museums?

•How many kids (7-10) go through/visit the museum?

•What’s a museums responsibility with kids leaning?

•Who’s in “charge” of the younger audience? – Who makes the decisions of what is learned? Who decides on what ideas are taught? Ect.

•Who is already do interaction work with younger audiences?

•What are they doing? What is working, not working?

•What learning modules are they doing? Why?

•Will stand-alone interactions work for the museum?

•What types of interactions are considered stand-alone?

A detailed justification for all kinds of research conducted + Summaries of all insights gained as they relate to your design problem and research question

Observational Research

Used this type of research unknowingly when I watched my cousins and other children grab cell phones and google their questions while at the zoo instead of reading the placard.

Primary Research: Exploratory with a touch of Specific

I used exploratory research to help aid in my research, but scarcely. I already had a problem I saw in mind, but I needed to know a bit more about the overall problems museums were having and types of interactive technology and their learning capabilities. So I did exploratory research with a more specific and refined research mindset. I kept my mind open and clicked every hyperlink to find new information, but kept the research focused on my overall topic of museum exploration, children learning and interactive technology.

Secondary Research

Looking through journal and scholarly articles, I used secondary research to help aid in how children learn, how children interacted with museums, children using technology, the use of interactive tech in today's society, and more.

Primary Research: Specific

Conducted interviews with DAM and DNSM representatives to figure out their goals, wants and needs when it comes to their younger audiences. Also wanted to find out what type of technology is currently being used or wanted in their museum.

Examples of solves, techniques, approaches, treatments, etc that you feel are applicable to your thesis with explanations as to why that is the case

I feel that I will have to do a lot of testing with different types of learning styles - possibly A/B testing in a more broad sense

Going to look into treatments of clean and simple formats to help with seamless integration with the museum and exhibits and also for low maintenance.

Summaries of SME and DME related activities

SME

These people gave me and are still giving me insight to what the museums want and the goals they have for their younger audiences. They also let me know that they don't want technology involved with their designs…I don't know what I'm going to do about this. Need to find more research about this

DME

Still working on getting someone in the immersive design industry and the interactive design (VR/AR) industry

Using your research conducted to this point, an evaluation of the validity and personal love you have for problem definition and research question.

While conducting research I am finding that multiple museums are having a problem with engaging their younger audiences. DAM and DNSM are two local museums I have personally confirmed this problem with. I am also finding articles about children engagement with artwork and how kids are googling their one question but not explore in a deeper level. And these new interactions the children are having entice me. I am finding myself going down rabbit holes when I find new information about how children learn and I believe my personal love is growing for how to gather that curiosity into a more productive and tangible learning objective for the museum.

A summary of what you have learned thus far through your research. Have your assumption proved to be correct? Have you learned something surprising that is causing you to readjust your research question or the direction of your ideation process?

I have learned a lot about how children learn and best ways to engage their curious minds with new technology. I have also discovered how museums try to captivate their younger audiences in old and new ways. And this has caused a lot of my assumptions to be proven correct and incorrect. I first thought using interactive technology like AR/VR would be the way to go and multiple resources confirmed this to be true; Children and adults learn more and more productively when technology like AR/VR are used. But a lot of museums don’t want this type of technology incorporated throughout their permanent collections. And one assumption I had that was completely wrong was the type of information the museums want to teach their younger audiences. This is causing me to readjust my direction and look more into how to just engage the children not just giving them proper information.

An evaluation of your research process thus far? Is your research methods and processes yielding the information you need? If not, where is your research methodology and protocols going astray? Could your process have been flawed at some point?

To date I have used primary (exploratory and specific) and secondary research the most with small amounts of primary research through interviews with the museums. These types of research have helped me find examples and understand what museums want. However, I think I need to conduct some more research with actual children to discover what they want and need. I haven’t focused on them as much because I am not sure what specific age group I want to design for – which is a big flaw in my research for now because learning objectives and tactics are way different for 5 to 7-year old’s verse 9 to 11. So, I will need to focus on this more and really dive deeply into their needs with learning about art and how they learn best before I can move forward.

A list of questions that you need clarification or direction on to successfully meet the requirements for this project.

How can we explore new ways to educate in a museum-like setting using interactive technology that has younger audiences looking more deeply into the work but with little maintenance and upkeep for the museum? Needs work with the ending (maintenance and upkeep part.)

DME: I plan to have a physical product and a digital product with AR  Name: Jenny Fillippite Bio: An electronics teacher specializing in Arduino and product design with CU Inworks Meeting: Oct 29th at 5:00 pm Questions: What does it take to make a physical product? Does my idea seem feasible? What would you recommend doing electronic wise? What might be some technological challenges? Examples Showing: I will be showing my sketches of the devices I would like to create

Name: Michelle Carpenter Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellecarpenter1/ Meeting: TBD - might be over email, but she has agreed to help find someone in the AR/interactive community. But I will also be asking her these questions. Questions: What are the benefits of creating an AR piece for the phone? Do people like to download the tech? Do people have concerns with it? What are the learning opportunities? Is my design feasible? What would you recommend doing, tech wise? What might be some challenges with using this type of tech?

SME:

Name: 1. Ann Lambson 2. Natalie Thomas 3. Jill Katzenberger Bio:  1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-baier-lambson-b2ba913a/ 2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalieruhethomas/ 3. Creative Director, the Hopper Boulder https://hopperboulder.com/team/ Meeting: 1. & 2. Oct 29th at 3:00 pm  Meeting Done with Jill

With Google at our fingertips, it’s hard not to go right to our phones and search for an answer. And it’s worse for the younger generations who have only known this to be the way to find insight. But the information found could be wrong or not have you looking deeper into what you are googling about, causing a lack of education and a lack of attention to the art, animal, exhibit, etc.