{"id":87,"date":"2018-02-24T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-04-03T01:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:46:43","slug":"process-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/process-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>In keeping with the conventions of the blog genre: the quintessential apology for not posting more often. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>So, a bit of catching up is likely in order &#8211; specifically with respect to how the project has changed since the carefree days of January where anything seemed possible and time stretched out infinitely ahead of me.<\/p>\n<p>Where things started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bullet\">focus groups, expert interviews, user testing, oh my!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where they ended up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bullet\">the ethics proposal itself is written and ready to go, but preparing the supporting documentation &#8211; from the user testing script to the questionnaire to the follow-up email for the follow-up email\u00a0 &#8211; dauntingly threatened to engulf the time earmarked for development of the VR application and so, was ultimately scrapped<\/li>\n<li class=\"bullet\">the scrapping of the ethics proposal = no focus groups, no expert interviews &amp;\u00a0 no user testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I should take a moment here to express my thanks to Jennifer Douglas for reminding me that independent study course students always start out by promising the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The scaled back, more realistic version of the current project then becomes a feasibility experiment to investigate what would be involved if an archives were to undertake a small-scale virtual reality interface design project. The core of what was proposed &#8211; identifying a body of literature, creating a series of prototypes and recommending directions for future research &#8211; remains the same; it&#8217;s just being undertaken without, y&#8217;know, any input from the people who I hope would use the application. Failing user interface design 101. But it&#8217;s clear that the scope of exploring archival interfaces in VR is far larger than a three-credit academic course, so it will be good to have a point of departure for the next stage of the project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the conventions of the blog genre: the quintessential apology for not posting more often. Sorry. So, a bit of catching up is likely in order &#8211; specifically with respect to how the project has changed since the carefree days of January where anything seemed possible and time stretched out infinitely ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/openarchiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}