Weekly Updates
Week 12, 5/12/22 Project goal for week:
- Finish Accessibility/Sensory Tables and Accessibility Maps
- Update the final Presentation
final project updates Individual goal for the week
- Qiyan Ba
- Create sample maps for MEC 2nd floor, Atrium, and the Lower Level
- Update the final presentation & subtitles
- Upload material List
- Create ReadMe File
- Make PDFs ADA compliant
- Record a demo on how to create ADA compliant PDFs
- Rajshree Saraf
- Meghana Shanbhogue
- Create ADA compliant and editable PDFs for Accessibility & Sensory Guides
- Record a demo on how to export as editable PDFs
- Check subtitles for the presentation
- Populate ReadMe File
Overview of what was accomplished Week 11, 5/5/22 Project goal for week: Final Presentation
final presentations Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba/ Rajshree Saraf/Meghana Shanbhogue
- Final Presentation
Overview of what was accomplished Week 10, 4/28/22 Project goal for week: Continue the work on the tables and the maps
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba/Rajshree Saraf/Meghana Shanbhogue
- Continue the work on the tables and the maps
Overview of what was accomplished Week 9, 4/21/22 Project goal for week: Continue the work on the tables and the maps
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba
- One sample access map
- Populate the table template
- Rajshree Saraf
- One sample access map
- Collect sensory icons
- Meghana Shanbhogue
- One sample access map
- Populate the table template
Overview of what was accomplished
we’ve populated the table template and created several sample access maps for review.
Week 8, 4/14/22 Project goal for week: Fill in the sensory table as much as possible.
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba: Finish
- page 20-25 of the road condition document
- 1-5 description of the table
- Rajshree Saraf
- page 26-31 of the road condition document
- 5-10 description of the table
- Meghana Shanbhogue
- page 32-37 of the road condition document
- 11-15 description of the table
Overview of what was accomplished:
Finished reading the road condition document, finished the initial sensory/accessibility table.
Week 7, 4/7/22 Project goal for week:
- Creating a list of follow up questions for Miranda
- Getting started with samples for the Sensory & Access map – trying to nail the visual language and elements.
- Go through the Road Surface Access work done by Beneficial Design
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba
- Recreate the floor plan of MEC 2nd floor
- Rajshree Saraf
- Recreate the floor plan of the south barrack
- Meghana Shanbhogue
- Recreate the floor plan of MEC ground floor
Overview of what was accomplished:
- Recreate of the floor plan of MEC 2nd floor
- Follow-up question list (google doc).
Week 6, 3/31/22 Project goal for week: Midterm Presentations ndividual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba
- Rajshree Saraf
- Meghana Shanbhogue
Overview of what was accomplished: Midterm Presentations
Week 5, 3/24/22 Project goal for week:
- Participated the second meeting with our mentors.
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba
- Create the initial table template (google doc) for the sensory map.
- Rajshree Saraf
- Meghana Shanbhogue
- Conduct comparative study for sensory maps.
Overview of what was accomplished
- Participated the second meeting with our mentors and documented the answers (google doc).
- Clarifies the preferred format for the sensory map.
- Graphics for buildings. Eg. MoMa (pdf)
- Tables for outdoor areas. Eg. Sensory Guide Template (pdf)
- Provided the mentor another list of information we need, including photos and locations of certain areas.
- Initial table template (google doc) for the sensory map.
- Comparative study for sensory maps.
Week 4, 3/10/22 Project goal for week:
- Schedule the second meeting with our mentor
- Go through mentor’s answers to our previous questions
- Identify and organize unsolved questions for the second meeting.
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba /Rajshree Saraf/Meghana Shanbhogue:
- Go through mentor’s answers to our previous questions
- Identify and organize unsolved questions for the second meeting.
Overview of what was accomplished
- Documented unsolved questions and new questions on a google doc.
Week 3, 3/3/22 Project goal for week:
- Benchmarking
- Ecosystem mapping – map out our stakeholders and what we would include for each
- Literature review – ready existing articles/papers on designing guides for museums
- Google Map Local Guide user research
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba
- Literature review
- Google Map Local Guide user research
- Rajshree Saraf
- Ecosystem Mapping
- Literature review
- Meghana Shanbhogue
- Literature review
- Benchmarking
Overview of what was accomplished
- Literature reviews (google doc)
- Google Map/Tripadvisor Local Guide user research (google doc)
- Ecosystem mapping
- Benchmarking
Week 2, 2/24/22 Project goal for week:
- Accessibility page
- Reference other accessibility pages
- Sensory guide
- Research on how to create a sensory map
- Reference other sensory guides
- Comparative Study
- Email the mentor a list of information we need to plan the project
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba/ Rajshree Saraf/Meghana Shanbhogue
- Choose 6 historic site/museum websites/sensory guides. Each of us will do accessibility research on all of them.
- By Feb 22, send the list of resources we need to our mentor.
Overview of what was accomplished
- Studied what goes into a sensory/ accessibility map
- Sent Miranda a list of the information (google doc) we’d need from her for the sensory map design.
Week 1, 2/17/22 Project goal for week:
- Clarify short-term and long-term goal for the project.
- Understand the existing accessibility level of the historic site.
- Clarify deadlines.
Individual goal for the week:
- Qiyan Ba/ Rajshree Saraf/ Meghana Shanbhogue:
- Create a list of questions for the mentor.
- Research on existing solutions for the maps of historic sites.
Overview of what was accomplished (pictures and links encouraged!)
- Finished our first meeting with the mentor.
- Understood the details of the projects and the expectations.
- Set the goal as polishing the Accessibility Page and create a sensory guide.
- Meeting minutes (google doc)