roadmap

#Roadmap: Audimance

###Summary

Audimance is a tool for the creation and deployment of user-directed artistic audio experiences.
Content may be designed for use in isolation, as accompaniment to other media, or in conjunction 
with live performance using QLab. 

###Mission

Audimance enables a user-centered, flexibly complex, audio environment ideal for nonvisual audiences
and can be used to provide either single-track or multi-track audio description. Content can be spatialized.

Audimance provides a flexible deployment platform which:
- permits artists and content creators to easily deploy single or multi-track content
- facilitates venues in providing consistently available accessibility without large dedicated hardware systems
- creates user-directed aesthetic experiences which prioritize user agency for style and complexity

Critically, Audimance is designed to facilitate the use of pre-recorded descriptive content for performing arts 
synchronized via QLab or other (OSC or UDP) network cue delivery mechanisms for accurate and finely timed delivery 
of accessible communal experience. 

##Goals

###Mobile-native 

Conversion from the alpha webapp to a native mobile deployment is necessary 
to facilitate ease of use for audiences, artists, and venues as well as  
to implement both necessary and nice-to-have UI features.  

*Actions* 
We are actively forming a team and soliciting support for this major milestone.  
If you are interested in participating, or if your company can support this effort, please reach out.

###Creator UI

Currently, content is manually adjusted, uploaded, and spatially placed by editing the text fille. 
This needs a GUI plus functionality for auto-adjusting audio files and spatializing the result for 
novice users.  

###Venue UI

Currently, show selection and content availability is managed by network access.  Moving forward, for 
a cloud-based service venue operators or artists will need to be able to set up venues and events 
with geofencing and time bounds for IP protection.

###Visual clone

Based on research conducted by Kinetic Light, the design model pioneered in Audimance's alpha deployment 
has been determined to also be suitable for deploying accessible content for d/Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing 
audiences.  

*Actions* 
Back-end refactor for content type flexibility //COMPLETE
Determine architecture of single/dual deployments //IN-PROCESS
Design UI for visual content //NEEDS DOING

###Documentation 

Audimance needs user documentation for content creation, end-users, and venues.