The quality of the HCI Design II projects this past spring was solid. One of those graduate student groups managed to get to a full implementation on one of the concepts. The Mathers Museum is getting a bit of local* press for the effort:
Judith Kirk, assistant director of the Mathers Museum and curator of the exhibition, expresses gratitude to those who helped expand access to the exhibition through technology.
“We were approached by Professor Eli Blevis of the School of Informatics who asked us to participate in a service-learning opportunity for his class I56/Human-Computer Interaction Design II,” Kirk says. “Three students — Adam Shahrani, Kenton Hankins and Selvan Thandapani — created an on-line, searchable database of 1,000 images from the Wanamaker Collection.” The database is available for searching at http://www.mathers.indiana.edu/wanamaker/
From Indiana University Media Relations
The Mathers Team online gallery includes nicely animated navigation and multiple paths to search by clicking on links embedded in the photo descriptions. Congrats to Adam, Kenton and Selvan on following through with their community partner. Clearly, they appreciate the end result.
* I included this link only because Judy Kirk included it in her email. The Herald-Times requires a paid account to see any content (including obituaries!), a backward strategy in a collective society. If you happen to have access, great. If not, don’t bother. Instead, read the Bloomington Alternative or the local blogosphere, which does include a few H-T blogs.
