This Spring, the NSF Smart Tools project team hired two students, Eric Gan and Ricky Chen, to work on building concepts for a functional pitch booth. Ricky Chen was tasked with developing a Pitch Booth concept into a fully realized physical prototype to be tested with teachers and students at Quaker Valley High School, and evaluated against a set of success criteria. In tandem, Eric Gan was tasked with designing and implementing a raspberry pi based video reflection system for use in the pitch booth that would be deployed at Quaker Valley.
Installation of the pitch booth at Quaker Valley High School was scheduled for mid-March 2020. Through weekly iterative design with the research team, Eric and Ricky had each developed working parts of their respective pieces of the booth. Ricky’s pitch booth concepts evolved from sketches and models to a full-sized physical prototype built from foam core and adhesive. Up to this point, Eric had developed a walk-through version of the video recording interaction, including a landing screen, 3-digit participant sign in, and a management system for uploading completed videos to a secure server. When the stay at home order was announced due to Covid-19, the pitch booth installation at Quaker Valley High School was cancelled and the team had to pivot to create remote solutions. In partnership with Amy Keller and Linda Conlon from Quaker Valley, Ricky created design mockups for the outside of the booth that included Carnegie Mellon University’s logo, the NSF logo, and written information on the research study. Eric’s pivot included adding functionality to support pitch booth prompts, the ability to tag pitch videos with microcredentials, and recording time sequences. At the end of the semester, Amy and Linda reviewed student work via zoom. Ricky and Eric documented each part of their work and presented an example interaction of how a student would use the pitch booth from start to finish.
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