Create a registry of lab spaces for the School of Engineering with interactive tours accompanying each space.

To accomplish this goal, the team had to complete 7 steps. These steps were:

• Generating a list of engineering labs.

• Researching potential solutions for creating interactive tours and capturing 3D images.​

• Deciding on what tools to use. We selected the Insta360 camera for collecting media, Pannellum for accessing the 3D images, and Visual Studio Code for coding the interactive media.

• Contacting professors​ for access to the lab and information about the tools in the space, on-going research in the lab, requirements for accessing the lab, and general descriptions of the lab space.

• Gathering images​ of each lab with the Insta360 camera.

• Developing media​ in Visual Studio Code by coding each webpage.

• Creating a registry so all the lab tours are on one page.

I was responsible for 28 out of the 43 labs. My responsibilities were similar to the project process, but I specifically:

• Contacted lab professors for access to the labs and information about the spaces.

• Took pictures of labs using the Insta360 camera.

• Incorporated media assets into Pannellum using Visual Studio Code to create webpages for each lab space.

The largest challenge for this project was getting professors to participate. Mercer is a very busy university, and the professors often have multiple things going on at one time. This made it difficult to get professor to respond. Professors that didn’t respond fell into one of these categories:

• Didn’t respond to the initial email.

• Responded to the initial email but didn’t respond to follow-up emails.

• Didn’t understand the initial email and didn’t respond to follow-ups.

To overcome these challenges, I did the following steps.

• I sent a follow-up email asking to meet in person.

• I went by the office to see if they were present to ask if they saw my email.

After a few failures of the last step, the team decided to wait until closer to the end of the semester to try again.

The project is still ongoing, but several lab tours have been completed. As of now, the team:

• Has completed roughly 1/4th of the tours.

• Have created the registry for implementation of completed tours.

• Have established a strong platform for further completion and future improvement.