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This Wiki will document the Periodic Table Interactive Media Installation in the Hall of Gems and Minerals. Contact [email protected] with any questions.

1. Tasks & statuses
2. Prototypes
3. Mock-ups
4. Reference images
5. Documents
6. User testing
7. Meeting Notes
8. External resources

All content is listed with the newest entries at the top.

Tasks & Statuses

These are often-updated documents/pages that track various statuses and tasks of the project

• Current project's tasks
  • All tasks
  • Info on how to add/manage tasks
• A list of minerals for tracking the status of crystal structure files - (also an older version here)
  • Current repository of crystal files

Prototypes

All prototypes and works-in-progress will be posted on the following website:

https://amnh-sciviz.github.io/pt-sandbox/

Mock-ups

1. Mock-up for the pay-off state (2020-09-29)
2. Meta message for "Nearly all minerals contain oxygen" (2020-09-10)
3. Findings from user testing and mockups for contextual hint/guidance design (WIP) (2020-07-01)
4. Mock-up for showing how to maintain two sets of colors on the Periodic Table in the interactive (2020-05-01)
   • Some reference images for showing the low contrast issues with using colors from label deck PT: 1 2
5. User flow of starting the game from resting mode. (2020-04-08) - for best viewing, resize your browser so that all content is visible
6. Personal periodic table: How to show mutiple periodic tables and how users interact with personal tables. (2020-03-30) -
7. Meta messages (2020-03-30) - for best viewing, resize your browser so that all content is visible
   • Minerals are mostly compounds of elements from the two sides of the periodic table.
   • Different building blocks can be combined in different ways to form different minerals.
8. Using formulas to give hints about what to do next (2020-03-26)
9. Screen Recording showing the resting mode and interactive mode + personal Periodic Table (2020-02-19)
10. Screen Recording showing the attraction "pulse" animation and Periodic Table background highlighting (2020-01-06)
11. Mockups for the relationship between interactivity and the Periodic Table
    • A large periodic table in the background highlighting elements as they are interacted with (2019-12-10)
12. User flow mock-up that focuses on making different minerals from the same base unit (silicate) (2019-12-06)
    • Branching option A - Explicitly give users the choices
    • Branching option B - Highlight the different choices during the interaction, depending on the position (and possibly orientation)
    • Branching option C - Hybrid of option A and B
13. User flow mock-ups from 2019-11-13 Curatorial meeting
    • Build version
    • Breakdown version
14. Overall UX possibilities & Mockups x3 (2019-10-18)
15. Accessibility and gamification features illustration (2019-10-15)
16. "Meta" storyboard illustrating a basic composition of the overall screens (2019-10-08)
17. User flow for construction of Forsterite and Beryl (2019-09-24)
18. Visual language for construction of Mg2SiO4 (2019-08-22)

Reference images

1. Chemistry reference images from label decks
2. Images of hall

Documents

Most documents can be found on in the following places:

• Google Drive - for text documents and slideshows
• Dropbox - for label PDFs
  • Systematics
  • Periodic Table Interactive - also includes folders for source files for mock-ups and graphics

Some key documents

• Developer's Guide
• Periodic table big ideas and meta messages
  • An older version: Periodic Table Big Ideas
• List of minerals and mineral groups from Exhibitions and a document that goes into more detail of each mineral/group
• Periodic Table Timeline

Here are documents used in meetings in chronological order starting with most recent:

1. PT - UX Specification (2020-09-21)
2. Periodic table big ideas and meta messages (updated (2020-09-15)
3. Overview of the periodic table media installation’s organization, content, and behavior 2020-08-26
4. Messaging for invalid and counterintuitive combinations 2020-08-10
5. Finale Content from Exhibitions (2020-04-07)
   • And a supporting document on the format of finale content
6. Decision trees for mineral formation (2020-03-18) - last updated (2020-03-26)
7. Periodic Table Timeline (2020-01-17)
8. Periodic Table Big Ideas (updated) (2020-01-08)
9. Atom colors and sizes (George, 2019-12-30)
   1. Also in a spreadsheet
10. List of minerals and mineral groups from Exhibitions (2019-11-13)
    1. A document that goes into more detail of each mineral/group (2019-11-15)
    2. A list of minerals for tracking the status of crystal structure files (2020-03-19)
    3. Current repository of crystal files (2020-03-23)
11. Periodic Table Big Ideas from Exhibitions (2019-10-16)
12. A high-level inventory of different directions we can go in for overall UX (2019-10-15)
13. Content for PT Interactive from Exhibitions (2019-08-19)
14. Visual language and interactivity V2 (2019-07-31)
15. Visual language of chemistry concepts (2019-06-25)
16. Presentation document for first meeting with curatorial (2019-06-18)
17. Mood Boards, Periodic Table (2019-05-15)
18. Mock-ups of variations (2019-05-08)
19. Inspiration, Hall of Gems and Minerals (2019-04-28)

User testing

1. Remote single-user testing session outline (2020-04-08)
   1. Associated user testing form
   2. Link to edit form
   3. Link to form submissions
2. Summary of sessions (ongoing)
3. User testing groups and budget outdated (2019-08-07)

Meeting Notes

1. Working group monthly (2020-04-29)
2. Working group bimonthly (2020-04-01)
3. Working group bimonthly (2020-03-18)
4. Working group bimonthly (2020-02-19)
5. Working group bimonthly (2020-02-05)
6. Working group bimonthly (2020-01-08)
7. Working group bimonthly (2019-12-11)
8. Working group bimonthly (2019-11-13)
9. Working group bimonthly (2019-10-16)
10. Working group bimonthly (2019-10-02)
11. Working group bimonthly (2019-09-04)
12. Working group bimonthly (2019-08-21)
13. Working group weekly (2019-07-31)
14. Working group weekly (2019-07-24)
15. Working group weekly (2019-07-03)
16. Working group weekly (2019-06-18)

External resources

• Mindat - open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from
• Mineralogy Database
• Mineral Evolution by Hazen, also the paper
• Crystal Structure Databases
• Interactive Periodic Tables:
  • Ptable
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • INL Ptable
  • Shwoing Ionic charge, Lewis dot
• Accessible Periodic Table:
  • Accessing the Periodic Table
  • APH Periodic Table
• Setting the Table - A brief visual history of the periodic table
• Silicate Minerals 1
• Silicate Minerals 2
• Gamification in museum
  • Gamifying Museums
  • Level Up?: Gamification in Museums
  • Strategies for Meaningful Gamification