Amir Reza Kashani Pour, Christine Herlihy, Gaurav Sharma, Lianyi Ma, Yiying Xiao Dr. Marcio Oliveira...
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Amir Reza Kashani Pour, Christine Herlihy, Gaurav Sharma, Lianyi Ma, Yiying Xiao
Dr. Marcio Oliveira & Dr. Helene Cohen
FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition 2014-2015
Final Presentation
Flip The Museum: A Platform to Extend the Audience Engagement Life Cycle Through Gamification of Content
Where did we start?
• With a sleeping kid surrounded by ancient artifacts, and a GOAL
Where are we now, and how did we get here?
• It took teamwork, a lot of coffee, and many hours running around the library hiding beacons
• We have a working prototype• Backend database + front-end dashboard + app
What is our path going forward?
• With external support, we hope to scale up this platform
Today’s Agenda
Let’s go back to the start…Our goal: • Wake up kids sleeping their
way through content-packed museums
• Empower teachers and curators to customize the museum experience for visitors
How? • By creating a mobile and web-
based platform to extend the audience engagement lifecycle through location-based gamification of content (i.e., make museums FUN!)
Remember this sleeping kid? And those depressing search results?
Web-based platform for content curation, customization, and packaging
Game App.
Curators Targeted content
Game Designers
Students
Visitors
Visiting the
Museum
Play the game; share your experiences with
your social networkEngagement forever!
Global Domination
Content Flow: From Curators to Game Scores
Where are we now?Mewseum Quest
Frontend dashboard (user-friendly interface; curators and
teachers go here to create quizzes and view student scores)
backend database (agile; feeds curator-generated
questions to the app)
Content-provider-facing component(web-based)
Visitor viewpoint /real world Content + mobile, user-facing component
User proximity information triggers content tied to beacon and customized
for user in database
How did we get here?
• Outlined goal, architecture, roles and time-table for a location-based mobile game
• Conducted market research• Collected and drafted app
requirements and features with the Newseum’s Paul Sparrow
• Completed IRB process for eventual beta testing with Barrie students
• UI and UX development• Developed/coded component
pieces based on requirements• Vetted and selected an external
partner to help with app design• Iterated testing and de-bugging
(ongoing)
Steps we have taken so far:
∞
Team “Flip the Museum”
+ Vital Raw Ingredients
& Amazing Support…
What do the pieces of this platform look like?
Parse-based back-end database
Curators’ dashboard (user-friendly interface; curators and teachers go here to create
quizzes and view student scores)
Bluetooth Low Energy• One advantage of Bluetooth™
version 4.0 is the energy efficiency. You’ll get a better battery life while you use our technology for indoor navigation.
Optimization for Content Modification, App-Download, UX and bad wi-fi• To enable a better experience
we optimize the architecture so you don’t need to download 200MB of data at once!
Universal and Scalable Platform• One platform, universal museum experience• One user, integrated experience
What are the technological innovations?
What are our feasible next steps?
Tasks accomplished Top priorities Ideal partners
We have a working prototype…
Integrated front-end, back-end, and estimote
API
Working mobile prototype, with location-
aware quiz
IRB approval to work with students to test the app
…but there’s more that can be done,
Beta test the app and integrate student
feedback
Scale up app: more quiz content, socially
networked sharing, etc.
Develop tools to help power users leverage
visitor analytics
& we’d love some help!
Teachers and curators, help us generate
educational questions
Content providers-this platform is flexible: how
can you put it to use?
Donors-can you help us make this app a reality?
We need more hardware!
The road ahead is bright! A location-aware mobile game is within reach. Thanks!