12/05/2014

Decided to ask my Interactive Media Production class the questions for a targeted demographic, that demographic being Communications students (and one other).

Some of the answers I received were not very helpful (such as those involving the staplers) but that was to be expected and those answers were on questions that were not so important. Other questions such as the favorite aspect was good in getting useful responses however they were not directly useful to our cause since they indicated long term changes that were not applicable in our event. They did however assist in giving us an indication of what to emphasize about the library when constructing our event (such as the quiet study space). The MUST ANSWER questions yielded more useful responses and in the process sparked some discussion between the interviewees about some of the potential improvements as well as things to include in the event.

Within the important questions the responses towards improving the interest in the library were varied, a lot tended towards making the space more comfortable. The most important question about the favorite fantasy provided me with some good information and data about the themes to include, Harry Potter, Narnia, Sci-fi, Nordic Myth and Game of Thrones came up and from a cursory glance at other responses from my team sci-fi seems to be quite popular.

One very important thing that came out of the discussion is that food is a very good incentive as well as library freebies so that might be part of the prize structure.

If we are having food as part of the prize structure then we should consider collaborating with the Culinary Arts department so that we could potentially set up a themed buffet of some sort. On top of that we would require AUSM to help promote the event as well as co-ordinate with AUT library.

People we need to talk to:

• Aut Library Staff.
• AUSM.
• Culinary Arts Department

Managed to figure out how to get AR to work on an android phone, there were issues making it function on the emulator however as long as it works on the final destination I think it will be fine. 

Next steps will include:

• Compiling research.
• Talking to the departments.
• Assigning the roles for sure.
• Tour the library as a team.