On October 20th, Sarah and I talked more about the final presentation of the iBeacon project. The factors that I will have to consider are:
– The arrangement of the iBeacons: where exactly outside the gallery space would they be located? Why are they following this order? What significance will this order have on the meaning of the project?
– What kind of content would be included in each iBeacon? Why so? From which source will those contents come from?
– How will the audience get introduced to each iBeacon and understand why they are there? Will there be a title on each?
– What will the layouts of the iBeacons look like? Do all of them have to follow a similar pattern?
– How can I set up this iBeacon project in such a way that the exhibitions after Witness can follow this model?
All of these factors have to be factored in each step of the project since the act of asking ‘why’ constantly throughout the project will help me understand what I am trying to achieve better. After some time brainstorming and discussing, I have come to decided that:
– The iBeacons would be placed underneath the chairs outside the gallery space, so that after people visit Witness, they can step out and see this, and be encouraged to take part in it. In order to encourage them, I’m planning to have posters set up, which include the details about the project. The content of this poster is to be discussed later, but will say something along the line of ‘Are you ready to see Witness from other perspectives?’
– Each iBeacon will contain a different theme that I pick from the exhibition. The point of them is to enhance people’s gallery viewing experience, so that they walk away from the exhibition with a more comprehensive understanding of what they’ve just seen, including from a psychoanalyst’s point of view, a scientific point of view, an artist’s’ point of view and another one that is to be decided. Originally, I planned to interview different groups of people, but due to time restraints, I will not be able to do so and hence will carefully select information from the Internet instead.
– The audience will get introduced to iBeacons through the information on the posters that I will design, and I will set up space in a way that makes it inviting There will be title on each iBeacon so that the viewer understands what they are about to see
– The layout of the iBeacons is to be designed and shown at the next meeting. However, as a rule of thumb, I would like to keep the design user-friendly to people of different ages and backgrounds, since the visitor demographic of New Media Gallery is very diverse. Also, for the sake of consistency, all the interfaces will follow one framework.
I will communicate clearly to Sarah the different stages of planning for this project so that she and Duggan can follow this model and apply it for later projects.

I found this meeting highly productive in terms of visioning the whole project’s direction and see which step comes next. I’m looking forward to drawing more diagrams and brainstorm more in the next meeting.