for details of the equipment required, see Project Txoom Rider
(*) testing will occur in the mornings and afternoons, in 2 groups per day. The first group will consist of dancers, the second of the textile students/artists, the third of the digital/audiovisual artists+software developers. The evenings will be reserved for the focused callibration and development of the environment by the txOom team.
(* *) the community workshops will be structured in the same manner as the lab testing, but will have a different focus and approach to them.
More information about the user research find on Project Txoom User Research .
group 1
11.00 - 11.30 Arrivals and brief introduction to the project
11.30 - 12.00 Experience of the txOom environment, without detailed instructions
12.00 - 12.30 Group feedback sessionabout the experience Detailed explanation of the txOom environment
12.30 - 13.00 Instructed experience in the txOom environment
13.00 - 13.30 Individual feedback sessions focused on the issues of:
13.30 - 14.00 break
group 2
14.00 - 14.30 Arrivals and brief introduction to the project
14.30 - 15.00 Experience of the txOom environment, without detailed instructions
15.00 - 15.30 Group feedback sessionabout the experience
Detailed explanation of the txOom environment
15.30 - 16.00 Instructed experience in the txOom environment
16.00 - 16.30 Individual feedback sessions focused on the issues of:
These two days will allow 10-15 international professionals in the fields of digital media, textile and dance / movement to see presentations of the txOom environment as a whole, but also have system demo's with txOom developers and discussion groups on topics relevant for developing responsive environments such as txOom. 6 participants will have the opportunity to become apprentices in the txOom project, where they will spend two following weeks with the developers learning and assisting the team in the user research and public presentation
first day
arrivals and informal dinner with txOom team
second day
11.00 - 12.30 txOom project overview (history, context, concept and design of the Gt. Yarmouth version…)
12.30 - 13.00 discussion
13.00 - 14.30 lunch
14.30 - 17.00 txOom Gt. Yarmouth systems demos:
third day
11.00 - 13.00 experience in the playspace
13.00 - 13.30 experiential feedback
13.30 - 14.00 lunch
14.00 - 15.00 working groups
The opening of the txOom public presentation will occur in the evening of saturday 30 November. During this opening, we will not dress people up, not lift anyone in the swings and worms, will have the media systems functioning minimally (no state changes), so that the people can get a little taste of what the experience could be and hopefully come back during the week. We will serve them food and drinks in the 'txOom' style - so it's more of a 'coctail party' than a running txOom environment.