Project meeting
Alun and Mustie met at OUCS on 16th Nov 2006
Work packages
We agreed that we had made a slow start, because of illnesses and other project commitments. The work packages now look more like this.
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Leaders |
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Detailed scheduling and planning |
MR |
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No detailed schedule plan available. |
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Contact users and line-up interviews |
MR |
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Via Ruth Mustie has contacted and interviewed 1 Classics user. (1 other to be contacted). Emails to the DIAMM project and the BRIDGES project have not been answered. |
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Analysis of IB usability feedback |
MR |
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Mustie to arrange meeting with Matthew Mascord to discover if any data / users available? |
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Analysis of BVREH usability feedback |
MR, AE |
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Mustie is not convinced data available. |
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Interviewing of selected IB users |
MR, AE |
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tba |
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Interviewing of selected BVREH users |
MR, AE |
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tbc |
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'Lab' usability tests of BRIDGES |
MR, AE |
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tba |
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Analysis of usability testsFootNote(Including reaction to failure) |
MR, AE |
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Report writing |
MR, MN |
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Final report |
MR, MN |
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IB
ACTION: Mustie will contact Matthew Mascord to arrange a meeting to discover what IB existing data is available and to find out contact details for users to approach to interview. (Anticipate meeting to take place by end of November).
BVREH
Interview Classics user
Ruth (BVREH) recommended that Mustie should meet with Charles, Classics - (XXXX tbc: Dr Charles V. Crowther (Contact details and subject interests listed here http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/directory/buscard.asp?IDno=282)).
13th Nov 2006 Mustie had a long conversation with Charles. Mustie reports: "Unlike our initial hypothesis, people in Classics are very much motivated to try new technologies and are not afraid of it! They are also very much used to distributed computing although they are NOT very keen on command line interactions. He showed me (lab) paper "scans" of stone scriptures and thought 3-D electronic copies could be very useful in his area of research. Laser scanners may be objectionable but camera incorporating images/scans from multiple angles to put a model of the stones or scriptures could be very useful The reason I bring this up is because the process could use Grid computing for capture and subsequent visualisation of the sone scriptures. It also requires large sets of data. Electronic copies that can be manipulated in various axis like paper would be beneficial in cross-region collaborations. Another application is in fieldwork to capture to electronic copy engravings from stones (in situ, i.e. anywhere in the world). He also mentioned Elaine Matthews in the same building. I waited around for her for as long as I could but left a card for her at the end as I had another appointment. She works on Lexicons of Greek Personal names if I recall correctly."
Mustie knows that he will have to make contact again with Elaine - not expecting her to contact him. Mustie has lengthy notes in long-hand from the meeting with Charles.
ACTION: Mustie to contact Elaine.
ACTION: Ally to confirm with Mustie, Charles' details.
Other BVREH feedback
After speaking with Ruth, Mustie is not convinced that there is any usability feedback to be gleaned from the BVREH project. Alun and Mustie agreed that Alun will contact Ruth separately, in case a second approach manages to un-earth this usability feedback.
ACTION: Ally to chat with Mark to understand what was anticipated when the project was prepared, and then to contact Ruth.
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