Designing

Interactive Learning

Spaces

EdLab Seminar by Brian Pichman

of the Evolve Project

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Hi I’m Brian PichmanAnd we will explore libraries,

discover new learning spaces,

define interaction and

engagement, and identify that we

all have the creative potential to

bring a positive impact to what

motivates us.

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Did You Know?

Stats from:  Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

Did You Know?

Stats from:  Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

Did You Know?

Stats from:  Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

Create a Public VALUE• Not be a “process” but an experience• Move from physical to digital• Create new ways to learn and explore• Libraries should be creating stories• Libraries HAVE TO BE ENGANGING!• Shift Focus To

• Innovation, Interaction, Discovery, Collaboration and Invention

Libraries are like Candles“Libraries Are Screwed” By Eli Neiburger 

What Does A Community Ask For?

O Study Rooms / Homework AreaO Open AreasO Tech (Computers)O Business CentersO MakerSpaces O ?Others?

What do these things have in common?

Libraries need to find ways to engage their patrons

Libraries and Learning Spaces Have To Be Engaging

O Encourage Creativity and InventionO Allow DiscoveryO Increase CollaborationO Generate InteractionO Foster Innovation

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Evolve: A Library Playground

O Fab Lab / “Hackerspace” / “MakerSpaceO A location where people with common interests

(usually in computers, technology, science, or digital or electronic art) meet, socialize and/or collaborate.

O Can be viewed as open community labs incorporating elements of workshops and/or studios where people can come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make things and ideas.

O Combining the positive & fun aspects of schools, museums, and playgrounds into one “entity”.

Take Risks

We All Have Creative Potential

Collaborative Areas (Either Network Based or In A Room)

Provide Tools (Hardware and/or Software)

Learning Labs or Training Centers

Types of Learning Spaces

Music / Graphic Design / Video Editing

3D Printing

Allen County Public Library

Multimedia Room / Learning Centers

Room Set Up Features: Clickers

Allows for jeopardy style gaming Smart Board (interactive white board) Full DVD/BluRay/Sound System Easy to use and start (Touch Panel System)

You Can Use This Room For Jeopardy Movie Nights Presentations / Interactive Style Board Game Night Create a Business Plan, Project Plan, etc

The 4th floor is a public laboratory and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology, and the applied arts.The 14,000 sq foot space hosts equipment, expertise, programs, events, and meetings that work within this scope.While traditional library spaces support the consumption of knowledge by offering access to media, the 4th floor is unique because it supports the production, connection, and sharing of knowledge by offering access to tools and instruction.

Chattanooga ”Fourth Floor”

DOK Lab (www.doklab.nl)

If you build it they will come

Designing Interactive Learning Space

Key Design Concepts

Adding Color Art Have Open Areas Furniture Modularity Technology

Adding Color

White = Boring Think about Parks (typically colorful)

Painting walls is an inexpensive redesign Use Fun Colors

Be Bold! Children Areas should use bright attractive

areas.

Art

Have patrons/users create the art Donate it to the space Mix it up as often as you like. There is no

cost.

Open Areas

Open Space! Seating Tables Multi Functional Areas

Less Closed Rooms Activity Rooms, Meeting Rooms, etc

Furniture

Fun Colors

Modularity

Allows the environment to change easily Let your users define the space Put things on wheels

Desks …No Need For Shelves To Be On Wheels

Don’t fasten furniture to floor… no one will be stealing a desk

Fill The Space With Fun Interactive Technology

Allow People to CHECK THINGS out

INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Play Time

Kurio Tablet

Cheap Tablet Locked Down Secure

Little Bits

littleBits is an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.

Meet Sphero.

Creation Station – Sifteo Cubes

Small LCD screens that can sense when there are nearby cubes and react accordingly

Creation Station – Lego We-DoRobotic Legos that move; teaches how to program through a GUI interface

Smart Tables

Interactive Touch Table Top

Easy to load and install games

Up to 8 children can play, 100 finger touches

Laser Tag (Yes inside the library) Ubisoft Laser Tag

System Up to 8 can play Multiple different

game scenarios

The Menageri-E

A “Digital Petting Zoo” or “E-Bar”

Music Station

Children’s Collection Rotating Collection

Provides an “always new” environment Child Friendly Shelves

Bin style shelving, so children can “flip” through books

Bright, Fun, Attractive Colors.

See a virtual tour at http://tinyurl.com/Evolve-VirtualTour

Your environment can have all the best tech toys and cool fablabs but it could still fall short.

It is up to the frontline staff to ENANGE their audiences. A friendly hello goes a long way. Allow the staff to play with the tech; get them involved to reflect that excitement to the users.

Social Media• Use the tools

your users use• Communicate

on their level• These are your

#1 Marketing Tools

Poetry, Music, Video, ArtDigital Content Curation

Encourage creativity

Zombie MovieFilm A Zombie Movie (Cameras and some Face Paint for Your Library)

QR Code Link Books to E-BooksFind New ContentScavenger Hunts

Augmented Reality

Open a new dimension in your library. Buy using an app, you can see a new “world” within your physical space.

Mystery Grab Bag

Place books into color themed bags. Barcode number written outside of bag. Allow patrons to check out and take them home.

Holiday Displays

During special holiday periods, find books that are colored the holiday colors (not necessarily about the holiday) and place them on a stand near your end caps.

Miniature Golf

Purchase Cheap Plastic and Foam to setup Paths and fairways with felt. Have it throughout the library, engage the participants through your space.

How Else Can You Engage a User?

Gamification

Interactive Library Cards• Put a “Reward System” into the library card• Badges• Prizes• Exclusive Programming / Event registration

• Low Tech:• Print new more colorful library cards, allow patrons to

customize their card with different and increasingly more desired badges – based off books read, programs attended, etc.

• High Tech:• Create Library Cards with screens• Send Messages to card when they are in the library

(wirelessly connected)• Display “reading level” or “badges they own”

Game of Books• The Game of Books is gamifying the reading

experience.• In the Game, you are the character that you are

leveling up; books are the magical items that give you rewards.• This is a project from BookLamp.Org• Each Book in the world has a very specific DNA, a

structure that contains specific themes, writing style, density, etc.

• The themes in the book relate to points – and those points apply to your character.

• More Details: www.gameofbooks.com

Technology As An Evolution

O 1990 – 2000: Internet BurstO 2000 – 2010: Value Adds to

TechnologyO 2010 – 2020: Technology Burst

Future of TechnologyO To discover and curate of informationO Value adds (efficiency, reliability)O To build or discover new “things”

Future of Search Has Changed

Searches based off of visuals instead of

keywords

Clicking Images rather than entering in words

General ThemesO Touch-BasedO Gesture-BasedO Object OrientatedO Mobility/ConnectivityO Open Source Hardware

Touch BasedO People want to touch everything

O Discover Through TouchO Search Through TouchO Learn Through Touch

Gesture BasedO Communicate with Technology Hands

FreeO Uses multiple cameras to detect

depth/movementO Microsoft Kinect

O Sites to Explore: O Microsoft KinectO PrimeSenseO Evoluce

Wearable Gesture Based Computing

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

Object OrientatedO Use Objects to interact with surfaces

Back To SearchingO Technology is becoming more

“visual” orientatedO Whether it be from touch, gesture, or

objectsO Search Dynamics are changing

What’s this talk about “Big Data”

O Technology is being used to identify trends in our lives. This data is being curated and collected.

O This can help us with:O Identifying health trendsO Saving Time or Energy

O Increase efficiency in our lives

Memoto – Life Logging Camera

Waze – Crowd-Sourced Traffic Data

NestLearning Thermostat

GojiSmart Lock

FitBitTracks What You Do

Future ConceptsO People watching TV can point and

click to buy content (clothes, cars, etc)

O Predictive searches (Amazon does it now)

O Ask yourself, what do you want to create?

There never seems to be enough money to do anything

So Where Can Money Come From?

Crowd-Source Funding

• People across the world group together to fund new projects and ideas

• People are encouraged to donate by either the attractive name or “awards” based off the amount they donate.

• Kickstarter.com• Indiegogo.com

Social Media

• Market your “Brand” heavy through social media– And Blogging

• Solid companies pro-actively manage their social media accounts.– They watch what people are saying because everyone else

can see what people say– They want only positivity about their company on the web,

they will work to only have positive comments. – If a company does provide assistance, always show your

support through social media • (you may need more support later on down the road).

Social Media is a way to develop relationships

Tips - Twitter

• Only use positivity when communicating on twitter

• 140 Characters, make them count!– Wow! @COMPANYX has some really great stuff. I need

to get my hands on it– Who would like to see @PRODUCT in our library

space?• Once you build a good relationship ask the hard

questions– Can you help me on the cost @COMPANYZ

Tips - Facebook

• Go to the Company’s Pages, be sure to “Like” their page before commenting

• Again, be only positive. Tell your story, pitch your idea.

Handling Objections

• You will hear “no”– A LOT

• But that just means phrased the question wrong or asked the incorrect person.– Who else can I talk to about discounted pricing/donations– Does anyone make a similar product that would be more

inline with our budget (ask them about their competitors).– What other things would you recommend?

• Don’t be afraid to ask the hard questions of “why”• Everyone has a bottom line.

Just Ask

Places to save money

• Buy Refurbished– Refurbishment is the distribution of products (usually electronics)

that have been previously returned to a manufacturer or vendor for various reasons. Refurbished products are normally tested for functionality and defects before they are sold, and thus are the approximate equivalent of certified pre-owned cars. - Wikipedia

– Refurbs are OK!!!• Discount Sites:

– 1SaleADay.Com– Woot.Com– Monoprice.Com – E-Bay

Questions?

@bpichman815.534.0403bpichman@evolveproject.org

Brian Pichman