Final Week of Semester One

I took out my classmates to Bunratty yesterday (It didn't rain once out there!). Before going there, I came up with questions for the visit relating to the information they received, the use of their mobile phone, and what they hoped to achieve on their visit. I asked them questions in the Folkpark and after. I recorded these, and plan to transcribe this over the weekend.
With this information, and information from another trip out to the Folkpark I will start working on scenarios of some visitors. I will also be designing a paper prototype soon.
I'm having problems with the ARToolkit. I updated to Snow Leopard and now the toolkit won't run on my laptop. I haven't found any solutions online yet. Marc recommended that I look at other Augmented Reality development tools. I'm investigating the Layar API, Wikitude and looking up other options. So far, I've found FLARToolkit. I haven't started working with any of these yet. I have to learn how to user Terminal properly, as well as the different development methods with the API's. This will take some time.
Right now, I am working on my Interim Report. The deadline is 21st December, but I hope to have it done by the end of this week so I can focus on studying for exams which start on the 14th December.


Goals of Your Visit

Timeline

I have my presentation for the FYP done and almost dusted now. I'll be putting it up once I'm completely happy with it. It has the overview of my FYP, Intro to Augmented Reality, the ARToolkit, some examples of AR around UL, what I hope to do for Bunratty Folkpark, I'll talk about a few papers that I have read - some good and bad points about them, I also have some future readings, a plan of action and a timeline.


Timeline
The text in black are the official deadlines, and the text in blue are the deadlines I have set for myself. My design process may only have one cycle (prototype, testing, evaluation, prototype) but I will alter the timeline when I get a better idea of how the cycle is going.