LITA 2004 EPO Report

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LITA 2004 E/PO Report

• Eben Myers, Peter Coppin
• EventScope
• January 7, 2004

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EventScope lab, team and tools
Museums, homes and schools
Far away places
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Educational Goals

• Explore the nature of life in an extreme geologic
  environment
• Explain robotic life-seeking in extreme
  environments
• Use near real-time data
• Serve the needs of middle school level
  museum-goers by seeking curricular connections

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Interface Goals

• Immerse learners in the experience of exploring a
  remote environment
• Easily update with near real time data to achieve
  the learning goals
• Hold interest of informal learners through an
  easy and appealing interface

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Target Audience

• Informal learning/museum audience (with
  unsupported classroom and home users)
• Generally aimed at middle school level

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Overall Strategy Media Outlet

• Strength involvement in ops ( tech synergy)
  means we can bring the mission to the public with
  little lag
• Strategy release news and PSEs as close to
  real-time as possible

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E/PO Components

• Website
• EventScope PSEs (remote experience files)
• Exhibit at the Adler Planetarium
• Talks at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
  (broadcast to Adler)

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EventScope Remote Experience Files

• Served as content for
• Museums
• Home/classroom download
• Talks

• Introductory Lessons
• Daily Updates for Week 1
• Daily Updates for Week 2

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Exhibit at the Adler
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Talks at CMNH
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Breakdown of Talks

• 1 talk at the end of week 1 of remote ops
• 2 talks at the end of week 2 of ops
• Broadcast via video conferencing to Adler
• cancelled 3 talks over the course of week 2 of
  remote ops
• Were to be given via video conferencing to after
  school program at Queens Library

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Formal Evaluation

• January/February 2005

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Informal Evaluation

• Meeting Goals
• Explore the nature of life lt95gt
• Explain robotic life-seeking lt95gt
• Use near real-time data lt75gt
• Serve the needs of middle school level
  museum-goers lt85 pending formal eval gt
• Immerse learners lt95 pending formal evalgt
• Easily update lt75gt
• Hold interest ltpending formal evalgt

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Informal Conclusions

• Focus and Team Resources
• Hosting/supporting ops split focus/resources with
  EPO work
• Solutions
• more focused scope to EPO work
• additional EPO personnel
• reduce data processing time

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Informal Conclusions

• Data Processing
• Processing of various data formats to work with
  public interfaces was complex and time consuming
• Solutions
• knowledge from past ops will smooth out the
  process for future ops
• iterate content creation tools
• pre-made data templates (previously mentioned
  data output templates will help enormously)
• same version of ops and authoring software

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Informal Conclusions

• Data transfer from science interfaces to public
  interfaces
• Public interfaces, authoring tool, and ops
  interface are based on same core technology, but
  during last ops, older (more stable) versions of
  public interfaces were used, leading to
  compatibility issues.
• Solution
• new public interfaces (same version as ops
  interfaces) will be used

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Informal Conclusions

• Including Data
• In retrospect, we can see that we didnt include
  all interesting data (FI, spectra)
• Solutions
• experience from last ops will improve performance
  on next ops
• increased participation in science meetings
• learn more science, ask more questions
• data return templates (improved science website)

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Unofficial Response

• Very Positive!