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JiaHua Mai JiaHua Mai • • Noe Lozano Noe Lozano •• Jose Mojica Jose Mojica • • Sara Safavihomami Sara Safavihomami • • Rich Manzana Rich Manzana

Presented by Team GlobalPresented by Team Global

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AgendaAgenda

Project DefinitionDesign Process

Personas, Constraints, and Goals

Design SolutionTop 3 Design Ideas

User SurveyConclusion

Project DefinitionProject Definition

To build bridges among the best faculty, researchers, and students at Berkeley and the rest of the world through technology and innovation. At the same time aiming to maximize the appeal of the MacroLab globally, which in turn promotes the integration of people from all academic backgrounds with the hope of benefiting human society as a whole.

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Design ProcessDesign Process

Personas:

Engineers and Scientists Bob Johnson (ME)

Non-engineers or non-scientists Ida Dolatabady (Psychology)

FacultyKen Aragon

International-Virtual-Person i_Person

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Design Process (continue)Design Process (continue)

ConstraintsBudget-production cost: 1 million Amount of space available: 1st floor -3roomsCertain areas are restricted to the limited of space for use and time restriction, that is, may not be a 24hr operating room.Access points, entrance/exitAmount of time provided to the students to work.Resources such as computers, chairs, and software.Other countries may not have the required technology to communicate.

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GoalsOur mission is to provide an environment where students and faculty from all back-grounds can collaborate and share Ideas with their peers at Cal and around the world. Be able to create a pleasant environment where students are able to work freely with enough space and resources at their hands. Appealing and welcoming design at the cutting edge of modern technology.

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Design Process (continue)Design Process (continue)

Design SolutionDesign Solution

Top Three Design Concepts

1. IDEA2. International

Multimedia Room3. Room X

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Innovation, Design, Education, ActionInnovation, Design, Education, Action

Open Source Kiosk located in the middle of the roomTheoretical or Actual problem posted each monthProblem is posted via VB Bulletin Board. Login and Email required to keep track of people. Chat room w/ instant translators available for instant communicationFor model problems robotic camera will be able to provide online viewing for usersWork desks available on 4 cornersResults from previous problems posted on the walls

IDEA Room

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IDEAIDEA

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International Multimedia RoomInternational Multimedia Room

-Provide a Rich Experience by integrating high performance audio, video, and network technologies into a richenvironment for instruction, conferencing, and collaboration in order tomaximize the impact of education research not only within engineering butalso within law, humanities and social science fields.

-A room where people can communicate with other people across the world and within the nation. The main purpose of this room is to communicate ideas efficiently through available technology and resources. The room will feature language translating tools from dictionaries to advance software.

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Essentially a map of the world that rotates within a ring which is marked by the 24 hours of the day. Each highlighted city on the map is connected to indicators which establish the international time zones.

International Multimedia RoomInternational Multimedia RoomDetail Prototype:

The design of the room will have a global theme. In the center of the floor there will be a design of the world. The walls will have international flags and finished projects to encourage motivation.Flat screens on the wall displaying news worldwide.A a clock displaying different times worldwide.2 conference rooms to optimize collaboration.Video editing software and other tools. One-on-One computer conference/work centers

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WebTalker:Record, playback, and publish. Quick way to put streaming audio on your web site.

Google Talk:Free instant messaging and voice chat service.

Babel Fish Translation (from Altavista)

Systran: Developed under Linux and runs on all Unix platforms and Microsoft Windows. All Systran systems utilize one engine and use the latest Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies.

Marratech:Software for collaborative web conferencing and multipoint video conferencing.

Conferencing Experience Project:serves as an open research platform by providing a flexible, common framework for designing and implementing collaborative learning applications.

Go Meet Now:Inexpensive and easy to use web conferencing service, compliant with restrictive firewalls. Share screens with multiple participants

International Multimedia RoomInternational Multimedia Room

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Room XRoom X

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Room XRoom X

Dark Room

Portable Drafting Table

Array of Seating Options

Mobile Walls and Tables

Room XRoom X

Power Faucet

Ceiling Pulleys

Intl Coffee

Track Lighting

Drafting Tools

Combination of Tools

Room XRoom X

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Potential User Survey (89 users)Potential User Survey (89 users)

Bad I dea, 0%

Very Li kel y,17%

Li kel y, 50%

Maybe, 25%

No, 8%12345

Very Li kel y,35%

Li kel y, 26%

Maybe, 35%

No, 4%

Bad I dea, 0%

12345

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Participation in IDEA Room Participation in IMR

Participation in Room X

Very Li kel y,23%

Li kel y, 39%

Maybe, 15%

Not for me, 23% Bad I dea, 0%12345

Additional Comments

International journal collection

Resting/sleeping areas

Seminar series

Advertise the MacroLab

etc

ConclusionConclusion

Facilitates Communication Immediate understanding of foreign content, web pages, documents, work reports, proposals, engineering project, etc.Promotes Global Integration

The opportunity to take on world wide projects for the benefit of the worldBuilds Knowledge Assets

Develops conceptual and operational areas of content within nations Manage worldwide problemsA constant learning environment to see how people from different backgrounds interact with technology and between themselves.

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MACROLAB

Thank You !Thank You ! Questions?Preguntas?

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