Feedback and what we done did about it - Sam Eaton

The other day we had a little show and tell with some very nice people from the Rotunda who gave us some advice on things we might change to make our installation more enticing and user friendly for the public. Thankfully they didn't have a large amount of negative feedback to give us so all of our changes were quite manageable. Below is a list of the things they asked us to change and how we changed them:

1. Make the text on menus easier to read - This was done by converting the menu videos back to still images (which besides making them easier to read also saved on system resources, see Mike's post below)

2. Simplify the language - I went through each piece of info we had and changed words here and there to make the text universally understandable (I hope)

3. Define 'witchcraft'. The museum reps asked that we define what we mean by the term witchcraft so as not to confuse visitors in to thinking of it purely as a negative thing - I created a definition page that sits on the other screen to the main menu, telling users what we mean when we use the word.

4. Change the word 'fetish'. We were asked to change the Congo Fetish Image to a different title to avoid putting certain unsavoury images in peoples minds. Some research was done and I found that the term 'Amulet' was appropriate and so all instances were renamed accordingly.

Othere than these things we had a short to-do list involving the finishing of video and audio content and the cleaning up of our patch.