[TAGS] exploring the 3-D photographs exhibit at the Newseum

[jerrykuns at gmail.com]

Thanks Cheryl,
Sounds interesting and useful.
Jerry

On Mar 12, 2018 12:14 AM, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, 
>
> If you are in the D.C. area between now and the beginning of July, I 
> highly recommend viewing this exhibit.  Some of you may have already 
> checked it out during Washington Seminar in January.  I took a small 
> group there this weekend and I am sharing my thoughts. 
>
> Exploring the 3-D photographs of the Marines at Tet, an exhibit at the Newseum 
>
> We enjoyed the freedom of coming to an inclusive, and accessible, 
> museum exhibit on our own schedule. 
> The 3-D photos are placed horizontally on panels about 3 feet off of 
> the ground and they have slightly smaller width and length dimensions. 
> Each panel has buttons in front with print and braille labels included 
> for the photo title.  In a standardized layout, the leftmost button 
> when pressed played a description of the photo (who, what, where) to 
> the right buttons gave access to audio clips of interviews with the 
> marines who were identified in the photos. 
>
> The photos contained embedded sensors (small dots about the size of 
> the fingertip.  These sensors labeled part of the image (e.g. gun, or, 
> marine name) when the sensor was on a person. Touching the sensor 
> played the clip of the interview.  The clip would play or could be 
> stopped when another sensor was access or another button was pushed. 
> Moving around the same sensor triggered it to repeat sometimes causing 
> a stuttering sound through the speaker.  The single speaker was 
> triggered when two people touched the photo in different places.  The 
> most recent sensor-tuch event always interrupted the previous audio 
> clip that was being played. 
>
> Since two people were exploring the panels together, we developed the 
> following strategy to minimize cutting between labelled audio clips: 
> 1. press the button for the description 
> 2. press each of the remaining buttons from left to right in order to 
> play all audio clips associated with the photo. 
> 3. Then we took turns exploring the photo and triggered each of the 
> sensors as they were encountered. 
>
> perspective 
> foreground and background description was helpful to understand the photos. 
> Objects in the foreground appeared larger than those in the background. 
> Since the photos were chronological, it was easier to identify 
> repeated elements such as the ruined building where the marines were 
> located even as its perspective changed from background to foreground. 
>
> tactile differentiation 
> irregular shapes in the photos were easiest to identify by touch 
> (example: amunition worn on the belt was more distinct than the m16 
> rifle, but once labelled, the shape of the gun was identifiable). The 
> shapes of hands and heads were also readily identifiable.  square 
> shapes such as the canteens and backpacks were harder to identify. 
> textured rough for ground was helpful. 
>
> We also noticed that sighted visitors were playing the audio interview 
> clips, and some triggered the sensors in the 3-D photos. 
>
>
> -- 
> Cheryl Fogle-Hatch, Ph.D. 
> Archaeologist and Museum Professional 
> (443) 939-8217 
> c.k.fogle at gmail.com 
> https://www.linkedin.com/pub/cheryl-fogle-hatch/8/224/538 
> https://cherylfogle.academia.edu/ 
>
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