This is the wiki for the Characters Alive project. From this homepage, you can navigate to the concept discussion, content, design, interaction, or prototype pages. Please make announcements on this page.

Announcements

Feb. 26, 2008-- Scheduled session with Avi Marquez on Feb. 26, 2008 at 4 pm for new members and students of Professor Kai Chu's CIS 309 class: Computers and Social Change at Humboldt State University.  Chara Clawfoot, project leader, will be on hand too.  

March 3, 2008--SL Prototyping Session, all day long from 9 am to 5 pm or beyond.  Please join us in the Tech Museum's Sandbox Dome and at our space exhibit in Parkside Hall.  Come with ideas, comments, and show off your newly learned SL skills!  We will be posting projejct assets to the Wiki all day long, so check the web page often if you are working from home.  We also welcome onlookers who just want to follow the project and comment on our progress!

March 5, 2008-- Students' feedbacks to Avi Marquez's session on Feb. 26, 2008 are in.  Ten out of 11 student's responses were most positive!  Only one responder was critical of the SL interface "it's not user-friendly." 

March 12, 2008--Students are welcome to join Tech Museum's classes and our project.  You may also hang out and look over our shoulders while we build in SL. 

March 24--Welcome back from Spring Break!  We will have a Final Prototying Sesssion tomorrow, March 25, 2008.  We will decide what content should go into the final exhibit.

March 25, 2008--A very productive day indeed!  Next step--implement the final designs based on today's discussions. 

Helpful assets for members:

• Website: Check out the HELP tab, or contact Rob Stephenson at rstephenson@thetech.org
• Second Life?  Check out the HELP tab, or contact Nina Simon at nsimon@thetech.org