Notes from NEH person
Use their section headings
Say that you already know some of the existing literature.
Refer to existing applications and set yourself apart from them.
“Careful look at similar works.”
Staff scomplementary projects
continuing review to stay up-to-date with new projects, changing technology, new connections ie UCLA 3d temple of Karnak
Fill out the staff section.
Lay out the challenges.
More specificity in age ranges– when does PA study Egypt - how about national standards
Who is that friendly audience.
Kids are okay, K-12.
What can anyone else learn from your project? We are developing a
process. examplar project for anyone thinking about adding people to
virtual world – either as a puppet, or as an AI Tutorial to the (one)
puppeteer on how to reach the audience.
Tutorials on how to produce lessons or shows as product of long term project.
She really likes Erik Champion doing this with his classroom.
Describe the continuum of displays available.
How will those sites learn from what we are doing.
E-Planetarium and Geodome networks. Get comments from them.
Talk about Erik’s role in the work plan.
Indicate who is working on what, generally.
What are the pitfalls. Learning. Authenticity. Criticisms from Egyptologists.
Put in the lit references. Demonstrate knowledge of the field.
History of the project.
In the work plan and schedule have text narrative, bullet points for the particular narrative.
You will get an Egyptologist, and other humanists on the panel.
Describe Holden's role more completes.
The AI prototyping with live actors.
About authenticity: be clear about your audience and why less detail, emphasize that this is a good first step to learning the true material. The key is to steer them in the right direction. This is not for scholarly debate. Extensible and adpatibility.
Theater with scholarship. Work with Michael List on the dramaturgy.
Most read them online.
Up to 10 pages of appendices. Need a paragraph or two for each person. Need paraphs on this applendix.
Describe why Boston Science would be a good partner.
Put in diagrams to reduce the verbiage.
Make a picture of Chris standing next to the temple.
Invite Erik for an expanded role. Do $1000 do a test and evaluation.
Also write a
E-Planetaruim does educational recreations and cheaper domes.
Elumenati does the specific recreations and better displays.
This is theater combined with good humanities content or theater combined with scholarship
This is to introduce audience to basic Egypt XXXX and is extensible and adaptable ready for easy refinement and updateable as new finds, insights and as our culture changes.
Work plan needs named people for each duty and change lit review to continuing survey of field
Product for larger project will be distributed through established dome show channels such as E-Planetarium and XXX and advertised, demonstrated and displayed at industry events including IPS & regional planetarium conferences.
300 full and partial domes in the US
almost 300 portables.
The following is a list of the fixes and changes we want to make to
our current draft of our NEH startup grant application. It
incorporates (1) reviewer comments from our original application, (2)
current advice from a helpful NEH application advisor, and (3) changes
needed to apply for a "State Two" grant rather than "Stage One" as
defined in the call (See StartupGrantCall.pdf). Feel free to mail
this file around to members of the grant team, with comments, etc.
Each time you change the file, please increment the number at the end.
Jeffrey Jefferson,
jeff@publicvr.org, 617-435-0517
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According to NEH, the final products for this grant should be:
A blueprint for the "full" study. Startup grants are intended to
launch much larger projects--they are effectively the planning and
early prototype phase.
A proof of the basic concepts. Just enough to show that we are on
to something important and we know how to investigate it.
A clear description of the value to the humanities buy this line
of inquiry and the eventual project.
Identification of the challenges and problems.
We must add verbiage describing this, and remove references to
distributing imporvements to the open-source software we are using and
the publishing of scholarly articles. We're going to do that anyway,
but not with direct funds from this grant.
Avoid use of the term "puppet" and "puppeteer". Instead use "avatar"
and "remote actor".
Describe more clearly powerful live presenter and avatar/remote-actor
of different people and have different roles. Describe those roles.
(FYI: I was thinking we could test three conditions (1) live tour
guide alone (2) avatar alone (3) both.)
Add an appendix with a preliminary work plan and schedule, preliminary
tests, who is doing those tests and why are we doing them.
Add an appendix which shows a complete example of the audience
interacting with a live docent *and* the priest avatar being
controlled a remote actor.
Remove the literature references from the narrative. The adviser said
"this is not a scholarly paper". We can retain the literature
references as an appendix to show that this is an active area of
research. I think we should do so, organizing the references into
subject areas with very brief (one sentence) descriptions.
Add a second museum to be our research partner. We hope that the
Boston Museum of science will join us in this effort.
Emphasize that this research project is not about Egypt specifically,
but a method producing VirtualHeritage applications for a variety
of topics. The role of our Egyptologist is to make sure that we have
complex and interesting sample material to work with, and and to
help us determine that the audience really is learning the important
concepts we are trying to convey. (Lynn Holden will do more than
just provide content materials -- he is also experienced in digital
communication methods and teaching.)
Show that this research has an application beyond the museum world.
An example that the adviser liked was for us to find a college
professor our approach would be a great way to help teach a college
course. Our friend, Prof. Eric Champion in New Zeland certainly can
do that, but it would be better to have someone local in Pittsburgh
or in Boston.
Question to selves: How far should we go in describing the
generalizability of this approach? Life-size avatars are already
used in military training simulations. I would rather say that we are
drawing on the knowledge and experience from researchers in that field
and applying it to the humanities.
Be clear that we intend to produce
An understanding of the technology and the best practices
required for the avatar to be a convincing and effective helper
for the audience. This takes the form of (1) the
stagecraft/dramaturgy required for effective interaction (2)
effective interactive narrative.
An understanding of the technology and best practices required
for the remote actor to fully interact with the audience
through the avatar. What do they need to see? What controls do
they need?
An understanding of what avatar/remote-actor adds to the
educational experience. What's the point?
I would like to welcome Dr. Stephen Hughes is a partner in the
proposal. His research is in the area human factors, making man
machine interfaces comfortable and effective. his largest theme of
research has been in net using interaction methods to draw the
user/audience attention to relevant objects in a virtual environment.
For "in-kind" contributions to the Project, list the interns that
PublicVR get from the Art Institute of New England. We could use
an intern to animate the more movements for the avatar.
Put it a little more money for programming.
Invite Marc Cavazza at the University of Teeside, England And to be an
advisor for the project. He is using technology originally produced
by PublicVR to research human interaction with life-size virtual
avatars.
Don't loose this idea: When to use the live docent as a surrogate for
the audience?
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How widely this might be used, add to the environmental scan. Number of digital theaters.
The onsite-presenter vs the puppeteer needs to be clearer.
Add an appedix which shows an interaction, sample walkthrough. An example.
Add another appendix with a preliminary work plan and shcedule, preliminary tests, who is doing the tests and why are we doing them.
This is NOT formal scholarly paper. She does not want the references referenced in the paper.
The word puppeteer may narrow reivewers' perceptions of the whole thing.
This kind of statup funding should lead to a (1) blueprint for the project (2) proof of concepts (3) understanding of the value added for humanities (4) identification of challenges and problems. (!!) Having another museum on board would be very valueable.
(!!) Value beyond the museum world: Formal learning in the Earth Theater she really liked. Good for college students.
Do Not diminish the museum's role.
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Variety of Paradigms available.
Bug eric about a course.
Jeff give a technical coloquium for Infomration Sci, topic education.
Appendix? avatar inteface and abilities.
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