'Mobile App, MFADT Thesis Symposium' => array(

'Caption' => 'A web-based mobile app that showcased artists and projects exhibited in the 2011 Parsons MFA Design and Technology Thesis Symposium. Created using Sencha Touch, a JavaScript framework for mobile applications, in partnership with Lauren Gibbons. Check out the mobile app on the Parsons MFADT Symposium site.',

'Project' => 'Create a cross-platform compatible mobile application in collaboration with fellow MFA Design and Technology student Lauren Gibbons to augment the 2011 MFA Design and Technology Thesis Symposium.',

'Challenges' => 'The mobile application needed to be compatible across as many mobile platforms as possible. Information about projects and artists continued to change until the day of the symposium, making information management quite difficult. Lastly, we wanted to include a means for introducing new projects to people—projects for which they weren’t specifically looking.',

'Solutions' => 'We made the symposium’s mobile application web-based in order to most easily manage information up to the beginning of the symposium. We programmed it using Sencha Touch, a JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 framework, in order to maximize compatibility across mobile platforms. Sencha Touch is compatible with Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry Touch devices. In order to introduce users to new projects, we added a ‘Get Lucky’ button on the homepage to bring people to a random project each time the button is pressed. Future steps that we would like to implement for the future are an interactive map of the installation spaces, plus categorizations of projects based on their formats and themes.'

'Live App' => 'Archived copy of the mobile application.',       );