UC Berkeley

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UC BerkeleyBreaking Through the Language and
Culture Barriers
THE MACR LAB
Presented by Team Global
JiaHua Mai Noe Lozano Jose Mojica
Sara Safavihomami Rich Manzana
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Agenda

• Project Definition
• Design Process
• Personas, Constraints,
• and Goals
• Design Solution
• Top 3 Design Ideas
• User Survey
• Conclusion

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Project Definition

• To build bridges among the best faculty,
  researchers, and students at Berkeley and the
  rest of the world through technology and
  innovation. At the same time aiming to maximize
  the appeal of the MacroLab globally, which in
  turn promotes the integration of people from all
  academic backgrounds with the hope of benefiting
  human society as a whole.

Project Definition Design Process
Design Solution User Survey
Conclusion
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Design Process

• Personas
• Engineers and Scientists
• Bob Johnson (ME)
• Non-engineers or non-scientists
• Ida Dolatabady (Psychology)
• Faculty
• Ken Aragon
• International-Virtual-Person
• i_Person

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Design Process (continue)

• Constraints
• Budget-production cost 1 million
• Amount of space available 1st floor -3rooms
• Certain areas are restricted to the limited of
  space for use and time restriction, that is, may
  not be a 24hr operating room.
• Access points, entrance/exit
• Amount of time provided to the students to work.
• Resources such as computers, chairs, and
  software.
• Other countries may not have the required
  technology to communicate.

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Design Process (continue)

• Goals

Our mission is to provide an environment where
students and faculty from all back- grounds can
collaborate and share Ideas with their peers at
Cal and around the world. Be able to create a
pleasant environment where students are able to
work freely with enough space and resources at
their hands. Appealing and welcoming design at
the cutting edge of modern technology.
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Design Solution

• Top Three Design Concepts
• IDEA
• International
• Multimedia Room
• 3. Room X

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Innovation, Design, Education, Action
IDEA Room

• Open Source Kiosk located in the middle of the
  room
• Theoretical or Actual problem posted each month
• Problem is posted via VB Bulletin Board. Login
  and Email required to keep track of people. Chat
  room w/ instant translators available for instant
  communication
• For model problems robotic camera will be able to
  provide online viewing for users
• Work desks available on 4 corners
• Results from previous problems posted on the
  walls

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IDEA
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International Multimedia Room
-A room where people can communicate with other
people across the world and within the nation.
The main purpose of this room is to communicate
ideas efficiently through available technology
and resources. The room will feature language
translating tools from dictionaries to advance
software.
-Provide a Rich Experience by integrating high
performance audio, video, and network
technologies into a rich environment for
instruction, conferencing, and collaboration in
order to maximize the impact of education
research not only within engineering but also
within law, humanities and social science fields.
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International Multimedia Room

• Detail Prototype
• The design of the room will have a global theme.
  In the center of the floor there will be a design
  of the world. The walls will have international
  flags and finished projects to encourage
  motivation.
• Flat screens on the wall displaying news
  worldwide.
• A a clock displaying different times worldwide.
• 2 conference rooms to optimize collaboration.
• Video editing software and other tools.
• One-on-One computer conference/work centers

Essentially a map of the world that rotates
within a ring which is marked by the 24 hours of
the day. Each highlighted city on the map is
connected to indicators which establish the
international time zones.
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International Multimedia Room
WebTalker Record, playback, and publish. Quick
way to put streaming audio on your web site.
Google Talk Free instant messaging and voice
chat service. Babel Fish Translation (from
Altavista) Systran Developed under Linux and
runs on all Unix platforms and Microsoft Windows.
All Systran systems utilize one engine and use
the latest Natural Language Processing (NLP)
technologies.
Marratech Software for collaborative web
conferencing and multipoint video
conferencing. Conferencing Experience
Project serves as an open research platform by
providing a flexible, common framework for
designing and implementing collaborative learning
applications. Go Meet Now Inexpensive and easy
to use web conferencing service, compliant with
restrictive firewalls. Share screens with
multiple participants
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Room X


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Room X
Mobile Walls and Tables
Portable Drafting Table
Array of Seating Options
Dark Room
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Room X
Drafting Tools
Ceiling Pulleys
Combination of Tools
Track Lighting
Power Faucet
Intl Coffee
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Room X
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Potential User Survey (89 users)
Participation in IDEA Room
Participation in IMR
Participation in Room X
Additional Comments International journal
collection Resting/sleeping areas Seminar
series Advertise the MacroLab etc
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Conclusion

• Facilitates Communication
• Immediate understanding of foreign content, web
  pages, documents, work reports, proposals,
  engineering project, etc.
• Promotes Global Integration
• The opportunity to take on world wide projects
  for the benefit of the world
• Builds Knowledge Assets
• Develops conceptual and operational areas of
  content within nations
• Manage worldwide problems
• A constant learning environment to see how people
  from different backgrounds interact with
  technology and between themselves.

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MACROLAB
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Thank You !
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