 Yeah, we just got to figure out where that's at Can you go to our SJSU live stream page? Yeah? Yeah, it's not that one anymore. If you go to Hi, everyone. We'll start in just a few minutes as always a few technical difficulties that we are We'll start in just a just a second Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks everyone Okay, we're live Great Are we ready Alfredo? Yeah, we're ready. Okay, excellent. Well, good. Good morning. Good afternoon depending on where you are in the world Thank you so much for joining us. This is our second live stream and today's Presentation is entitled on technology library of things. We really want to talk to you about our library technology integration lab I'm Anthony Chow the director of the school of information and founder of the LTI lab And let me introduce you to our outstanding team Alfredo Freddie must say hello. Yeah. Good morning, everyone. I am the lab coordinator and I'm here joined with Rosine and Nick in person and we'll hear from Chase Algood who is on the zoom call and we'll hear from Jennifer and Irene who have some recorded pieces for us today So great. Thank you. Thank you, Alfredo And so one of the core Purposes of the LTI lab is a certain a serve as a hands-on learning lab And so those students that Alfredo had mentioned have all been really central and core to our functioning so All right, so a quick overview of what we're going to present for you So we want to talk a little bit about the purpose of the LTI lab And then we want to go into detail of some of our Technology so in this case virtual reality and mixed reality and we're excited that we have the meta quest three And we're going to demonstrate that for you in just a second And then we're going to talk about web-based virtual reality, which is Mozilla hub. So we'll we will show you Kind of the ins and outs of that and again one of the values of that is you can serve Now virtual reality as a hyperlink Then we're going to talk about the hologram. So creating a hologram And kind of explaining why it's something that you might want to use and also why it's so excellent in terms of introducing STEM concepts But then the 360 camera so certainly virtual reality virtual reality tours are very Impressive and again immersive and we're going to show you the rico And then finally what everyone's talking about is AI. So if you haven't had a chance to see chat gpt, we're going to demonstrate hopefully Chat gpt and some of and discuss some of the pros and cons of artificial intelligence All right. So first of all, why technology? So why should we be So interested and concerned about technology? Well, the statistics show that digital access continues to grow exponentially as print and physical usage and visitation Decrease and that is just a fact. So Libraries, however, will want to remain the hub of the community. And so as the digital access and demand increase Digital literacy and digital access in organization is critical for libraries Already kind of talked about that so visits and print circulation Truly are decreasing digital access and circulation continue to increase Digital literacy is critical because ultimately digital literacy in the access access to technology oftentimes is separated based on social economic status and so digital literacy just similar to reading literacy is Really important for libraries ensuring that all children and people have access to Both the technology and in our literate in the digital world then finally mixed reality so mixed reality is a way to organize information And you're going to show we're going to show you many Examples of mixed reality, but ultimately it's it's the immersion of an integration of tech technology with the real world And so we'll show you again a lot different examples of how that would work so so first of all is the Let's talk a little about the lti lab in the high school. So first of all the high school Two years running accounts for 13 percent of all ms students in the country and so certainly being situated in silicon valley One of our responsibilities is to continue to be at the forefront of technology And its impact on libraries across the country and the other aspect of the lti lab is really serving as the hub for The exploration and use of digital Technology and libraries across the country and really across the world And so one of the things that we've been doing over time The last year and a half is building a network of library partners Who are who are working in the space and more importantly sharing best practices with one another Palo Alto, which is where this this live stream is originating from is our first partner And as they are certainly also one of the leaders in digital literacy We have really enjoyed working with one another So that is where they are on the map if you back up we're quick afraid of so that's where they are in the map Palo Alto California And that is a picture of the library The the downtown library and before we go on dr I just want to kind of switch cameras and just Show the space because we have a few team members here. So just a quick hello. We see ryan We see Nick and chris over there and then rizine's about to pop in so again. Thank you all for letting us Play in your space here and helping us kick off this live stream. So thanks everyone Well, and also want to emphasize because of their technology competency They're allowing us to continue to move forward and and accomplish our mission. So thanks. Thanks again For the entire palo Alto city library and we're just getting started. So All right, and I'm really quickly just to try to explain What extended reality is so extended reality is kind of the large rubric that encompasses VR MR and AR so extended reality as you could see is the umbrella term And let's start all the way on the and virtual reality. So virtual reality Is fully immersive. So in essence, you put on a headset or something that immerses you completely And you are not really able to see the physical Mixed reality, which has really become more than norm and I think is going to become more popular Then the other two realities is essentially mixing a blend of physical and real world Virtual element digital and physical and virtual elements with the physical and especially with the phone You're going to see more and more of that And finally augmented reality. So basically and then you add a digital Overlay on top of the real world and that also Is also is going to become more and more commonplace and really the spectrum is low immersive immersion Which is augmented reality versus complete immersion Which is VR so So that being said, let's go ahead and And start playing with the technology and walking you through Number of our holdings. So afraid of take it away. Yeah, thanks, dr. Chow So I'm going to leave this slide up just for a second so that we can kind of Show you we're going to show you one of the newest Tech gadgets we have At the lab and we've recently just purchased the meta quest three. So we have a meta quest two We purchased a meta quest three and in this Um diagram here it falls under kind of a little bit of both Or you have you can be fully immersed in VR and you can also have the augmented reality aspect where it's The elements are laid over the physical space. So these New devices will give you kind of that mixed reality feel and so i'm going to switch the screen here So so you can see rosine She has the headset And the headset has a few different changes this time around you're looking at The headset which in the front has much more cameras to kind of give you the what they call the pass through Where you can see the real world And not have to kind of take off your goggles To take off your lenses to view and speaking of lenses these lenses are now Flat lenses which kind of gives you a better Field of view when you have these glasses on another change is the ergonomics of the Controllers that she has in her hand. So those are a few different They're different from the last ones and a little even more comfortable to use When you're playing with the headsets and also You don't really need them because also with all the cameras you can track your hands So then you can use your hands as your controllers without your controllers Just a little kind of like for me, I'd like to know what's in the box What am I getting for my you know a few hundred dollars that i'm doing? Spending on this tech you're going to get the headset you get the remotes It does come with batteries included you come with the charger one recommendation if you are going to be acquiring one and using it at your library is to It doesn't come with it but to get the pop out face guard that is That has the rubber eyes so that you can sanitize it and after each and every use Now what we're going to do what i'm going to do next is kind of talk about Why we want to bring extended reality into libraries and so i'll give you a few reasons and then we'll go into some use cases and some examples And then we'll go into a short video we recorded this piece just for bandwidth issues and just kind of Making a little bit smoother for your experience. We'll go into What work rooms is which is a collaborative space where you can work? On your headset and or without it and like on you you can use it on your computer as well So let's go into why we want to bring it in First enhanced learning and education Next maybe for in innovative storytelling for skill development For accessibility and inclusivity cultural preservation Another good reason to bring extended reality and I say extended reality because i'm not just wanting to kind of Just say just bring vr. You could bring ar you can bring Mixed reality like these headsets like the meta quest three the picos and also for community engagement in Building off of that. I have some use cases that hopefully will spark some ideas And kind of give you a little feel of what you can do with these glasses first virtual tours and field trips so libraries no longer have libraries they've served as points for public's first exposure to new technologies So imagine a patron taking a virtual tour of a historical site or museums right from your local library That to me is the magic of xr you can Basically teleport from to a different world Without leaving your actual seat in the library There's also educational xr content that supports various subjects and age groups that can be used in libraries such as simulations You get they've got documentaries interactive learning experiences and one example of that is we have We're we're fortunate to work with one of our strategic partners, which is xr libraries and john mccloud who is the executive director there I've had the chance to meet with him and he shared with me the kind of things that they're doing and have a great catalog of vr experiences immersive learning Storytelling and a lot of other um a lot of other cool things So if you want to kind of take a look at that you could visit us on our lti website And all of our strategic partners have a page and kind of highlight what they're doing so This leads us to our next example interactive storytelling Xr can turn libraries into storytellers in a whole new way so picture A virtual book club where you discuss your favorite books in a virtual environment. So it's just not reading it. It's kind of living the story together With interactive storytelling using xr. It can take literature engagement to a whole new level and one of another another partner that we were working with and is living pop-ups and they have these ar books these augmented reality books where you can Work on a mobile device scan the book download the app scan the book and then the book comes to life And on top of that they also have a dashboard where you know teachers can Set questions so that when the student or the reader is reading the book Questions pop up and they can interact with the with the um the characters And then that gives you data at the very end that you on on your mobile device and you can see kind of the interaction And that the reader was doing with that book with using ar so they have Really cool stuff and we're collaborating with them on some projects at the lab So we're fortunate to again have them as a as a strategic partner Job training that's another use case that we think xr and vr could be Really great benefit. So we know that libraries are no strangers to skill building so Maybe you want to think about Job training programs in vr that allow patrons and users to develop skills in a virtual environment before applying them to the real world Again, I want to kind of tie these with real world examples that we've been working with at the lab but This one we were again Asked and fortunate to speak and showcase our lab And what we're doing in our tech at the nevada library association And during that time I was I met with mark anderson who's a co-founder and ceo of lifelike Which is a super innovative company and they have immersive simulations that they shared with me, which were pretty awesome and one of the projects that He talked about was That nevada scored a huge grant for a project sandy. That's s a n d i Which is led by the governor's office of workforce innovation And the office of economic development and project sandy aimed to boost stem careers using virtual reality in collaboration with institutions libraries other private partners to kind of revamp nevada's workforce and lifelike Was one of the key partners and they contributed virtual reality training content to kind of expedite industry recognize credential acquisition And when I was there we you know, I tried on a headset And walked through one of these and it was giving me the ins and outs of a dialysis center And it was pretty awesome because I had no idea of what went down into that dialysis center And they had no idea actually what the actual ins and outs of the machines were so that was a really interesting way of Of utilizing vr for job training Next accessibility and learning libraries We all know are all about accessibility and xr caters to different learning styles and abilities Which makes learning experiences more inclusive So even if you can't physically visit the library xr could bridge that gap And later we'll show you An example of this and you'll hear from jennifer emory who's a member of our lti team and a student here at the At the iSchool and she led a program with the los gatos public library to create a virtual tour for them using uh the rico theta camera 360 camera that we have At the lab and again later you'll hear um how that project went and how she went about doing it And again all of this you could find on our lti page So you're just going to get a high-level overview of How to use these devices, but if you want to get into the mechanics of how it was done We'll have that programming on our site Next is archival and preservation. So libraries are custodians of culture And xr can help preserve that It can be used to showcase cultural artifacts historical documents rare collections All in a digital interactive format like having your own little time machine in your local library Our worlds is a company that we were able to chat with and kind of We're in the works of kind of having them as our strategic partner and see how we can collaborate with our students in our lab And with them a little bit about them They're a native american-owned company that uses extended reality and 360 media experience to foster native american storytelling through geo site locations and interactive maps There our world's app Is first of its kind in a large scale network delivering their xr 360 proprietary cutting-edge Technology to give an immersive and meaningful sensory experience On your mobile phone. So again, all of these things don't require that you have to have a headset You can have your phone. You can have your computer. So Seeing what they what they're doing also is to preserve a native american culture down in san diego and they're hoping to expand and and have more more areas in the country kind of Be part of this was a pretty awesome use of of xr technology Now libraries aren't just a place to kind of check out books and study It's also kind of a place to where you would go to unwind to right So imagine having a virtual relaxation space where you can go in distress You can put on a headset take a meditative Journey on in vr and be transported to a different world And I think that this could attract a diverse audience in a whole new level A whole new like recreational experience for for patrons the other idea and use case that we came up with was events and workshops so You know The heart of the community is the library right and we believe that xr can strengthen that community bond You can use it for virtual events workshops to collaborate on projects for meetups Where libraries can bring people together virtually More to kind of foster that community building and to pick you back on that and one of our last examples is to collaborate on projects now We've we've created a quick a short video for you showcasing meadow workrooms, which is a furry collaborative platform that is Through meta that you can use to meet up and work and work with your teams remotely So let me go into that portion and let you kind of take a look at that and you'll see more about workrooms Hello, i'm alfredo and i'm joined by a few members of our lti lab Jennifer chase and rosine and we want to welcome you and introduce you to our meta workroom platform That takes your virtual meetings to a whole new level So imagine a virtual workspace where you can meet up with teammates Brainstorm ideas share presentations and get work done Whether you're using a meta quest headset or joining from a regular 2d screen computer It's all about making collaboration feel real and engaging In this short clip, we are going to discuss some features and benefits that are available to you in meta workrooms So let's talk about some of the features and benefits of working in the meta workrooms One is the ability to collaborate seamlessly in 2d and vr You can raise your hands. You can share screen. You can message with colleagues react conversations all from the comfort of your virtual space Workrooms also have the flexibility of switching them up so Need a presentation room or a discussion room with round desks or a breakout room for brainstorming Choose the right space for your meeting with their flexible room options The current configuration is just a general desk, but if I switch it up now, we're in a u-shape and you'll notice That we're all looking at rosine who is on her computer screen and we could switch chairs So if I could have you Jennifer switch over and move to the right side of chase And with the couple clicks in a point to where you want to go. There she goes Another customizable feature in workrooms is the environments. You can customize your virtual office with imagery and logos Set the right mood for your meeting Whether it's an icebreaker by the beach or collaborations high above the city You could change the scenes to suit your style The great thing about working in workrooms is that you can join from anywhere Whether you're on a regular call or using a meta quest headset Everyone can get involved Now let's talk about productivity And discover new ways to get more done With the remote desktop app You can seamlessly integrate your physical computer screen and keyboard into vr You can experience a flow between your virtual and physical environments like never before Another thing that workrooms do is Makes you feel more connected more sense of community And some of those ways are with spatial audio that lets you hear who says what from where Just like in a physical room. It makes conversations more natural and memorable Another way to feel connected and feel part of a community When you're in workrooms is Through your avatars You can express yourself With your avatars by customizing them and when you're in the workrooms you can high five each other You can fist bump you can let your non-verbal communication sign through Yeah, high five Yeah, do we do some patty cake left? So that's uh, that's another cool feature to kind of make it feel like you're not Uh, it's so distant. This is just a little taste of what work space is And hopefully this will spark some ideas for you and your library to kind of utilize this and and and work with Library patrons or use a headset at your library and then use a headset at another library and collaborate with teams that way in a unique way so I uh, thanks for your time and we're going to go pop back into Our live portion of the live stream and we'll step out of this recording. So thanks so much so that's um concludes this portion of The exploration of kind of why XR would be kind of a benefit. Hopefully these use cases sparked some ideas for your library We recorded that piece just to kind of make it a stream seamless Transition into kind of showing you meta workspaces But the initial setup and actually popping into the rooms is fairly straightforward and we could find more information on our site so Right now I want to kick it back to dr. Chow because we are going to Pass i'm going to pass the the mic onto rosine who will be talking about Mozilla hubs. We're going to look at some of the hubs rooms. We're going to look at actually dr Chow's CV room and then from there we'll hear from iran miller who will give us kind of an idea Or we'll share What it's what it's like to kind of go beyond just being a guest in a room But kind of adding things and navigating through the spaces. So if you give us a few seconds I'll pass the mic on to you dr. Chow while we switch over and we bring Rosine to the screen great great job. Alfredo and What's interesting about what we just demonstrated is that is the meta quest three so the meta quest two Let's go ahead and back up to the previous run-through There we go. The meta quest two was fully immersive. So that was a virtual reality And with the meta quest three Now you have the mixed reality like we're talking about So now let's talk about mozilla hubs mozilla hubs by mozilla Is a browser-based virtual reality and the reason why we have Really jumped in with both feet Is because when we look at the difference between 2d, which is really what you're seeing right now and 3d We are really talking about 33 more space to express yourself to organize information and to experience and discover information and so What you see on the screen here are four different worlds And Rosine is going to walk you through that. Also before she does You'll see qr codes throughout the slide decks And feel free to use your phone or device to Click on that to have direct access to the worlds that we're showing you so without further ado Let me hand it over to rosie Thank you, dr. Chow This is our mozilla hubs rooms that iSchool staff and students have created There are vr students Okay, Irene here and i am going to give you a brief little hubs rooms. This is the lti hubs labs hubs room And we have the iSchool room And we have the manga hubs And we have the dr. Chow's cv room and we are going to go there now And and so this is dr. Chow's hubs room in as you'll see um in In mozilla hubs, uh, why did I want to present my uh resume or cv in this space? Well first and foremost you could see Where i've situated my uh my background and experience so beautiful a beautiful uh environment So but uh go ahead and rosie and let me turn it back over to you Thank you, dr. Chow. This is the dr. House the dr. Chow's hubs room and We have his cv here And this is a great way to showcase your uh presentation and at the library and another great way is to teach this technology to unit generation And rosie if I may so uh again when you look at a PDF cv In a 3d space look how much more we can do with it, right? And so you can see I've pulled out A lot of various experience and also have added visuals And uh, we are just getting started There are going to be more interactive elements in the future. So again that third dimension really gives us Quite a bit more space to express ourselves and to really Highlight our experience so you can see in essence. This is a a poster session Of my experience again put in a very in a real space and and again As alfredo had highlighted that is also how I believe information will be organized In the future is situating in real spaces information and artifacts about that space so Thanks, rosie Thank you, dr. Chow. So we're going to now Leave the dr. Chow's hub's room and iran miller is going to present some functionalities of mozilla hubs Okay, iran here and I am going to give you a brief little tutorial Runthrough on how to create your own mozilla hubs room. It is very easy and user-friendly very customizable and you can really get creative and make a space that works for You and for your library or your community. So as you can see right now, we are on the hubs page And we are going to try out this create room option. So let's get started Okay hubs has now created a room for us. This is the elegant glamorous get together room They're pretty creative with their names, but I'm not sure that I like this setting So I'm going to go to room settings And this is where I'm going to need to give them an email address So I am going to give them an email address And what's going to happen is I don't actually set up an account with a password They're just going to send me an email that I click on a link to confirm Which is kind of nice, but also We'll see later this changes a little bit of how we interact. Okay, so verification is complete and now I can sign in Okay, like I said, I don't know that I like this room. This doesn't maybe necessarily Meet my needs. So I'm going to change scene So on this page, we can see that hubs has a lot of scene options Some of them have been created by the hubs team some by other users But there is a lot to pick from that you can find something that's going to match Your event or activity that you would like to hold in here and you can see there's even more pages of rooms So I'm going to come back up here Because I would like a space that allows me to share a lot of items with other people Post things on the walls links and such. So what I am going to do is pick this Hello Web XR main home and this has been pretty popular room with the SJSU students who have created hubs rooms as well Okay, so I'm going to join my room And I am a yellow robot spotted whistler. I think I'm going to change my name to my actual name and I will maybe I'm not a yellow robot today. I can pick from a bunch of different avatars And these are also pretty fun. I think that maybe I am a purple alien today So except I'm going to let them use my microphone And I'm Going to enter the room. I'm going to skip the tour But when you create your own room, I would recommend that you go ahead and do it It's just going to give you some idea of how the controls work and so on. So I'm going to skip tour And I'm going to close out my room settings. So you've got a bigger view of the room So this is a really nice space. It's very simple and elegant But it also allows me a lot of customization options So I'm going to back up a little bit from this wall because this is the space that I'm going to use to share Some items with other people who might come in this room. So to do that I'm going to go to this place Button the green one in the middle and I will Upload something. So an example of something that I could upload Is a link To a website. So this is the website for the LTI lab All right, there it is I'm going to make this a little bit bigger because I want it to be a little more prominent So I'm going to put my cursor over it push down the spacebar key and Drag it up so that it's nice and big And I think that I'm pretty happy with where it's located. So again with the spacebar. I'm going to pin it So now anybody who walks up to this puts their cursor over it open link It's going to take them directly to our website However, there doesn't have to just be a website. You can share pictures. You can share videos. So And presentations. So let's try next A picture Okay, so we have a picture here. This is something we've used LTI lab. These are images from the meta quest Oh and again I'm just going to make that a little bit bigger So people can get a good look at that robot And then I can pin it in place And last but not least I'm going to go ahead and put a presentation up here Again my green place button So this is a great collaboration tool You can put any number of items on the wall and everybody can access them at the same time Oh, but that looks like it's bumping into the wall. So let's oh, we're going to move it over here. Oops Sorry And I'm going to pin it. Oops. Oh, that looks like that is not up against the wall, huh? So that's another note. Whatever you make doesn't necessarily have to be up against the surface Um, I could move that but I'm just going to go ahead and leave that that here for now So a couple other object options that we can do here is I can react Let everybody in the room know That I love something by throwing hearts around I can Congratulate someone And I can also chat with someone if anybody else is in the room. I can enter something in the chat And anyone else who's in the room would be able to see it. However, there is nobody here now at the moment So let's close out our chat And another fun feature is under again place again. You can use a camera And take a picture yourself. So I'm going to get a little bit closer. You can get my big blue eye there looking fabulous And again, I can move this Here on the wall. Oh, I feel that beautifully Excellent, I'm going to go back to place again Put the camera away But you can see there's lots of different things that you can put in this room And really make it your own and you can have multiple people painting multiple things like their own artwork or their own ideas and make this a really shared space The one note that I would also like to add Is earlier I mentioned about the type of account that you have When you are in a room if you want to share it with other people, you can share just this url Up at the top here, but if you want to find it again, you need to either save it bookmark it in your browser Save the link or over here under more. You just need to make it a favorite room. So Now that I have it as a favorite I could always come back to it. Oh and find it. Oh, I have two favorite rooms. Oh, how lovely Anyway, I hope that you have enjoyed this little introduction to how you can create your own Missila Hems room I highly recommend that you go in check out yourself Make something that's your own And use it to collaborate and work with other people in your community and your library Anyway, thanks for your time Okay, thank you so much Irene. That was great. That was a great presentation And now we are going to turn the microphone to chase who is online Okay, Irene here and I am Chase is going to present the holograms for us chase Yeah, that's before we turn over the chase a few final thoughts about the Missila hub. So we actually are collaborating with ala on a A metaverse that's focused on book banning In the other things that you've seen that we also are very excited about is using virtual reality as a collaborative meeting space As well as an interactive discovery storytelling space. And then lastly Although we're not there yet. We have another project called seeking immortality where we're looking to digitally preserve Northern Cheyenne language and culture in virtual reality, which now opens the door to not only videos and the interactive artifacts, but also artificial intelligent Conversational agents that essentially can talk to you In the virtual reality world. So we are just beginning And again, if you are watching this and are wondering, how could we ever use this in libraries? The thing to remember is that just like with strategic planning, it's not about today But it's really asking yourself Three to five years from now How prevalent is this information? So my prediction is that because it is browser based sooner than later Websites and virtual reality sites are going to be more the norm for organizations and also individuals So if again, I've encouraged all of our graduates here at San Jose State's high school to have a virtual reality resume as another way to express oneself as well as to demonstrate their skill set In this space the key is to be ready Is to not prepare when the patrons need us but rather to be ready when the patrons in society needs us to help them In virtual reality. So if that being said chase Go for it. Yeah. Hi. Thanks. Dr. Chao and Rosine Okay, Irene here and I am going to Yes, Jason. All right. Yes uh First simple clear plastic pyramid the specter hologram packs a lot of novelty into a small package Today, I'd like to highlight a few stem education use cases for this device Next slide Starting with stem education for a younger group For this activity start by having your youth patron sketch as a general art task or Have them draw something thematically related to your current programming Whatever works contextually For an easy conversion to a hologram use light colored gel pens or wax pencils on black construction paper to make an image That's ideal for the task Next slide And using our google slides tutorial which you can find on the lti website It's quick and easy to turn a simple phone photo of one of the sketches into a hologram ready image or Even if you like a small simple hologram animation Next slide Here we have a process drawing uh And a specter hologram of it And now moving on for an older less easily impressed group a simple black background Two phones and a video chatting app will allow you to live cast video to a hologram next slide For another stem education use case utilize any video calling app and a simple dark background You can stream video to a phone or tablet to create a live hologram You can try to zoom discord or facetime and reduce the group to the world's holograms and live broadcast at the same time And for another stem education use case utilize any video calling app and a simple dark background You can stream video to a phone or tablet to create a live hologram You can try to zoom discord or facetime and reduce the group to the world's And those are just a few use cases to consider We have various learning resources available on the lti web page Which you can get to by scanning the qr code at the bottom of the slide. Thank you Thank you chase and uh, I think two one compliments to chase for doing that I'm sure many of you are thinking star wars when you think about uh a hologram So one of the other use cases that we have Is for the school of information when we have booths. We have our staff That actually are similar to what chases did are Introducing themselves To a perspective students So again, one of the things that these holograms can do Is it's one thing to introduce yourself on 2d or print documents another thing to introduce yourself in 360 Uh and and so again from a communication standpoint It is uh, it is another way of expressing yourself the other thing That we have seen is that people really like holograms. So if you're a library And uh, you want to emphasize your Digital literacy and also stem Programming The other thing you want to do is uh in outreach activities create a hologram for yourself for your Programming for your library And people really gravitate towards that. So what we do is we have these holograms at our tables And uh, the good news is that the there are there are thousands of youtube videos That have beautiful hummingbirds butterflies, etc That really Catch people's eyes. So so again from a not only from a stem programming But just from an outreach and capturing people's attention It is a very easy way to do that and then lastly As uh, our world becomes more and more digital again libraries I think need to redefine themselves And so this kind of technology is actually very simple to work with But it actually packs quite a bit of a punch in terms of I think uh, you know Moving a little bit further away from, you know, some of the stereotypes that plague libraries Thank you, dr. Chow and now Jennifer emory is going to present us the rico theta for us And this is the rico theta 360 camera Hi, everyone. I'm Jennifer emory I'm an mlis graduate student at san jose state university and i'm an intern in the lti lab 2023 fall semester I'm going to demonstrate uses for 360 spherical camera technology and applications for building a virtual Tour of the low scottos library We use the rico theta sc2 from our lti lab Along with the rico z1 for training our participants, but you can really use any 360 spherical camera And we use 3d vista tour software to build the tour, but again any software can be utilized And many you can just upload the photos to the tour to the software And it will host it for you But those usually require a subscription So let's get started We're going to show you the tour of the low scottos library and the final product of the 3d virtual tour All right, so this is the start of our tour in front of the low scottos library And we start with a little pop-up photo that you can add to these tours You can show where the library return area is You can simply move around basically if this is on your website Or another hosting service people can just use their cursor to move around like I am here And then you see these little what they call hot spots those little air blinking arrows and that's where you can go to the next room And then again just look around and click on the little icons and you can make Different icons there's lots of different icons to choose from in the software And go outside and click on interesting Little areas and these photos we did take with an additional photo you could do this with yourself And you could just take a couple close-up photos and then add them into the tour So then we go back inside And we just go through the library they can go back to where they came from Look around go into the next room Over here we have the little kiosk Again, this can be a way of Virtually people going online and figuring out where everything is in the library. This is the children's section And we just went around and looked at what were little areas of interest like this in the children's area And took a few photos and added them in to the tour And again, they just moved the cursor Go to the next section See some fun stuff over here for the kids little seating area and a book There's another outside area out here And these fun little drum sets And as you see this is 360 so you can look up and you can look down and you can look all around And go back inside And again, this has a cool feature up on the ceiling here So you can look around on that And then we'll go to The next area and also people can find where the bathrooms are And we'll go upstairs And up here this information desk and they can choose which way to go And it's really up to you. How many of these little hot spots you want to put in? I find that we don't want it to be too much too confusing. Here's a laptop check out Too many options is just a little overwhelming for most viewers Nice little architectural feature And we're going to go into the technology lab over here Where they have some 3d printers So if they look up something online on the library They can go right upstairs and say, oh, there's where the 3d printers are or whatever I think this was the this is a little cut out cut outs of the little wood pieces And they get a whole feel for the space And we'll go down over here And this is over. I can also find like where the elevators are. This is the teen space The teen space hat could bring in youth so they can see how fun it is and it's well lit And then I have some fun activities nice windows The media section And patrons can look around and see what kind of DVDs they can check out All the different areas and again, it doesn't have to go down every single book aisle They're not going to be searching for specific Items while they're here, but it's more to show the space and the area This is the local history room you could zoom in on the plaque on the door And then they can go right in the room and look around And then back out And then decide where they might want to go Just look around and more of the space here So this right here is a little map that you can add We asked for this from the library and we went right back downstairs if you see that one, I clicked on it And you could go upstairs. So that's what we have. We just have an upstairs and downstairs on that map Back to the start here Here we are And one more little fun history photo right there And just maybe we want to go back upstairs. So that's again, and there's this other little feature you can add This is just something with this software that you can do Most of them do have a little map feature For example, if you were doing something you could use a google map to show where a house was or something like that There's also these images here on the right side So you could just go to one image and you could name those images I just have an image number, but you could name it that it's this outside area Or you know click on oh, this is the front and people could just jump right back to the front You could also not have those at all Okay, moving on to the process of taking the photos You're going to put the camera on a tripod and use a tablet or your phone Or even there's also a self timer that will show you the process to do There's a free software with the cameras you download onto the tablet And you're going to want to leave the area Because remember it's a 360 image and so you're in the photo if you're standing next to the camera So what we do is kind of go find a place to hide You can't go too far away because you're connected by a bluetooth or wi-fi And you can see the live image on your tablet or phone and you take a picture Once you take the picture you can see how the exposure came out Now if you're not using a tablet you can use a self timer We find that the number of pictures you need to take is maybe one every 10 to 20 feet Or just one photo in each kind of small room or small area There's the use as with the self timer So you just put it there press the button you can put it on 10 seconds and then Go somewhere where the camera can't see you So just quickly here's what one of the software Looks like um and this is what the little hot spots look like and you can choose a different image and say Okay, here's the direction you want to go You can add those little pop-up images Where you take a photo of a particular item or a sign like that technology lab and the 3d printers and things like that And that's just how the software kind of looks So in conclusion there are multiple uses for 360 cameras besides making a tour of your space The camera can be checked out to library customers for use to make their own 3d tours Or just make 360 images and video as well as panorama pictures Thanks for joining us Thank you very much jennifer Yeah, rosy my five say a few words sure So So one of the things that hi everyone. I'm jennifer next slide. Yeah, there you go Oh, so before we go in the chat gpt so again part of the Importance of creating these rich virtual experiences are for those that Cannot or will not ever be able to physically visit. So the The skill set as jennifer mentioned in terms of being able to teach others in the community how to do that as well as The ls professionals use of that technology to create A very authentic real world Uh photography that's interactive is a way to bring people to spaces that they may not otherwise be able to Physically visit themselves. So as jennifer said Learning the technology not being intimidated by the technology and then being able to create Again real world Almost being able almost like being there yourself Is is uh is something you know, that's very valuable. So one of the first products I ever did with virtual reality 360 was of the governor's mansion in florida And we did that because again the fair majority of children in particular Would never be able to physically visit the governor's mansion So being able to transport people into spaces and then as you can see the technology has gotten much better Where you can now annotate And educate as people interact with that space and and these spaces also can be visited with Headsets so that you can fully immerse yourself in this space. So not quite as good as being there in person But in some ways we can provide more information Then even if you were in person and I do think that Lastly adding kind of the augmented reality Especially using our phones. We'll we'll further I think kind of blur the lines between virtual or being in person So may have a great great job jennifer in very uh, very Exciting and the last thing I would say is again part of I think The role of libraries is to provide access to that technology because again, uh 360 cameras are not inexpensive And these are the kind of things that can be shared and checked out By libraries and although we are not talking about drones this session drones also do the same thing. So All right. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Chow. So now we are going to hand the microphone to nick Who is going to introduce? Chat gpt for us and its functionalities. Thank you Hi everyone I'm nick So yeah today i'm going to be talking to you about chat gpt So chat gpt is in a merging ai technology that's gained a lot of traction lately Due to its ability to generate human like language There's a lot of potential use cases that have yet to be explored but One of our jobs as libraries is is to be at the forefront of these new technologies and learn how to integrate them into our Workflows, but also at the same time to make them more accessible to the public So the purpose of this segment Is to give you just a a broad overview of the types of things that chat gpt is capable of Talk a little bit about what it is and how it works and then we'll also highlight some of the pitfalls and limitations associated with it Because it's important to be aware of those as you as you start to engage with it So What is chat gpt chat gpt is is a large language model Chatbot developed by open ai That generates human like responses to whatever prompt you give it and um Before we dive any deeper Let's get some of the definitions and terminology out of the way So ai stands for artificial intelligence And that can either refer to the field of study that develops these intelligent machines Um, or it could refer to the actual technology and machines themselves And generative ai is uh, it's a type of artificial intelligence. Um It's It doesn't have the ability to look up information, but it's trained on a lot of information And so that way it's able to generate new information Based on that training And large language models or llms Those, um Are a type of generative ai That's that's trained on a large data set and it's able to predict upcoming words So llms, you know, that's like what underlies chat gpt So there's an importance distinction between Chat gpt and gpt chat gpt is the actual um Chatbot the software application that you interact with But gpt is its underlying language model and um There is a free and a paid version The free version gives you access to gpt 3.5 Which is a pretty good Model, but the paid version which costs 20 a month That gives you access to gpt 4 which has been trained on more data and it's generally it it performs better And you also get access to some other tools There's like some customization tools Now and you also get access to their image The ai image generation tool, which is pretty cool. You basically just Ask it to create an image for you you give it a prompt and then it will create A whole image for you So that's what the paid version we're going to focus on just the chat gpt Today though, there's also other ai tools like this out there, you know, there's bard and There's like being chat and some other ones, but we're just going to talk about chat gpt for today So, yeah, so what's with all the hype? Um Well, really it's in it's an ai tool like we've never seen before. I mean not too long ago. This this kind of stuff was just science fiction you Can have chat gbt write large amounts of like well written content You know, it's there are some issues with accuracy, which we'll get into a little bit later, but generally it's pretty accurate and People are really excited about its potential to streamline and improve the efficiency of our work And it's already been shown to be able to do this in a lot of cases So yeah, overall, I mean chat gbt is really changing the way that that people are interacting with writing and working and things like that so Let's move on And talk about how chat gbt how chat gbt works so basically, um It was trained the language model was trained on like this huge set of data from from all over the internet wikipedia articles books web pages things like that and The language model learns patterns and structures from the that large training dataset and then um The language model will then analyze the text and it predicts the word that's most likely to occur next Given the context of the preceding words. So here We have like an image kind of demonstrating this so In the training data if you have a sentence like early bird gets the worm then What chat gbt is doing later on it's it's it's if it sees early bird gets the then it will predict It'll predict the worm and during the training process. There's like a reward model where if it gets it right It gets rewarded and then that kind of just reinforces the the training aspect. So Um, so what about harmful content? Um You know chat gbt generally does a good job at Not generating harmful content. Um and open ai Spent a long time and quite a lot of effort to get it to to this state where it doesn't do that even if you ask chat gbt to You know write something bad it won't and the way that that open ai did this is they actually had to gather large amounts of Really clear examples of harmful content like things like hate speech or things like that and then they train the model to avoid Generating that type of content um Of course people have found loopholes to this and We'll talk about that a little bit later too. Um, there's these things called prompt injection attacks um where they can get chat gbt to kind of Produce harmful content anyway So Let's move on And talk about some use cases I thought it would be interesting to ask chat gbt What it thinks it can be used for? Um And I have a little screenshot here that shows so um chat gbt came up with some interesting Ideas you can use it for information retrieval Um asking it to like about certain topics. Um, you can use it for writing assistance drafting emails things like that um You can also use it to something that I've done is you can use it to help edit your writing. Um If you Want to check for grammar or just have it kind of restructure a sentence to sound better. Um It also recommends using it for language translation learning support um entertainment task automation and even therapeutic conversations So that's an interesting one. Um And then some other like common use cases are are just for content generation This could be like writing a blog post or Having it help you write a thank you letter Uh, and then text summarization is something that it's quite good at you can copy and paste Some text from a book or from a paper and have it summarize it for you uh And it can even help with programming it can Write code and uh, it can debug your code It can teach you about some programming programming principles um, and it's also really useful for data analysis and It can help you with research like Having it help you select a topic or generate research ideas And um, I wanted to highlight some Potential library specific use cases Um That libraries have been experimenting with um, so one is cataloging um and Um, there's a paper actually um or articles for each of these which I recommend Reading if you're if you're interested to hear more. I have um some references on a slide later on with the full citations um, but Libraries have also explored um using chat gpt to answer reference questions and Here at palo alto city library. Actually they Use chat gpt to do a lot of data analysis and help them develop a taxonomy for their website And they also wrote an article about that which which was just published a few days ago. I think so Yeah, all of these investigations Uh, they found that chat gpt wasn't really able to Um, complete the entire process and On on its own it it was useful for certain steps along the way um and it It, uh, especially with cataloging. It's like a useful tool to kind of get started, but um The finished progress the the finished product can have some some issues with accuracy and things like that So you you need somebody to look over the results. It's not going to just replace everybody. Um, at least not yet uh, so Yeah, it's easy to focus on um You know these fascinating and positive aspects of chat gpt, but there are significant limitations risks and concerns associated with it and It's really important for any responsible user of chat gpt to be aware of these Uh, I won't be able to cover all of them Right now, but I will give you a brief overview of some of the limitations. Um So one of the major limitations is is accuracy Chat gpt actually prioritizes creating believable language over generating accurate responses So sometimes it will generate a very confident well-written response But it turns out that it's actually completely false or made up. Um, and this is what they call a hallucination um, and another limitation Uh chat gpt is that it it's not able to express uncertainty, um It can't really ask you clarifying questions if it's not sure of what your intent was. Uh, so That sort of leads it to kind of like guess What what your intent is and that can also lead to some accuracy issues potentially um So it helps to write really clear prompts really clear instructions Um, potentially even giving it examples first um And there's actually like kind of a whole Like field dedicated to this called prompt engineering where they try to get the most out of Of chat gpt with with clear prompts. Um So another limitation is that At least for the free version gpt 3.5 the training data only goes up to september 2021 So anything you Ask it About events or information after that date. It won't be a lay answer um, the newer chat gpt 4 um, and they actually just released A new one called gpt 4 turbo That one um for for for the paid Subscription that goes up the training data goes up to april of 2023. So that's a pretty big improvement there So some of the risks involved There are like some some privacy and data security concerns. Um, there have been malicious users that have That attempt to extract sensitive information from the model's training data And there's also what I mentioned earlier prompt injection attacks, which It's basically when a user Creates some type of prompt that gets chat gpt to bypass its content restrictions Um, and this allows that user to then have chat gpt generate harmful content. Um There have been cases where people have been able to get chat gpt to write Like phishing email scams or even code malware Things like that. So it's definitely a cyber security risk as well, um open ai does do a good job though of patching things quickly when things like this get out And they're constantly updating and making sure that Chat gpt is as safe as possible, but inevitably there's people out there who are trying to you know What they call like jailbreak Chat gpt and and get it to do bad things um So some other concerns are bias inevitably Since they since the training data is just data from All over the internet there are societal biases You know included in in the training data and that means that There is potential for bias to come out in in chat gpt's responses Um, there's also authorship and intellectual property concerns There's sort of an unclear ownership of of the chat gpt generated content And that leads to concerns about plagiarism and potential copyright infringement And for students like academic integrity This is a really big big topic talking point in the education field And I believe Uh, dr chow actually gave a talk recently here at polo auto city library about this I'm sure you can find it somewhere. Maybe on our youtube. I know it's on polo auto's website as well And another concern is is misinformation, um, you know with chat gpt's Hallucinations that happen sometimes and also these malicious users You know finding loopholes to trick chat gpt into generating harmful content. Um There's a lot of people that are concerned about it fueling the spread of misinformation Which really is a big concern And a lot of these limitations like some of the accuracy issues and things like that They can be difficult to notice at first glance Because chat gpt writes so well and so confidently So it's really important to verify the information that chat gpt is giving you before you actually use it for anything So Yeah, so let's try out chat gpt and let's let's take a look at what it can do. Um Great, okay, so Let's um Let's ask it. Well, let's let's be polite first. Um, let's say hi chat gpt Are you doing today? So it says, hey, I'm doing great. Thanks for asking. How about you? What's going on? I'm doing great as well. Can you tell me? um An interesting fantasy book. That's my favorite book genre So it's giving me um some information. It says absolutely one captivating Fantasy book is the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss. I haven't actually read of it, but it saw my radar Um, and then it tells me a little bit about about the book So let's do something a little bit more library specific. Um, Let's ask it to make a mark record of that Can you please generate a mark record? For that book Using rda and chat gpt will actually um Create a mark record for that um And it says please note that the data elements Like the control number and publication fields should be filled in with accurate information According to this specific edition of the book. So It does need a little bit of assistance to actually fully complete um The mark record and have it be accurate Uh, so let's let's take it a little further. Um, and get some programming into the mix Let's ask it if it will make a webpage Um that displays That mark record And let's see what it does so it's actually writing Us some code some html code for A webpage And i'm going to copy this code and let's um see What it produced So i'm just saving it in a um In a notepad right now and i'm Saving it as a dot html file And then See i need to open it in chrome Okay, so it looks like this is what it came up with which isn't quite accurate hmm Let's tell it um I did this earlier and it came up with a um An actual webpage that showed the whole mark file Let's see Let's tell it the mark Or the mark record sorry the mark record isn't Showing on the webpage So let's see now. It's giving me some new code. Let's try that okay, so It's not um Sorry Can you go to not really working at the moment which happens from time to time Yeah, it's not that one anymore if you go to certain things and it's it's um, you know, there are limitations to this All right. We will start in just a few minutes as always a few technical difficulties that we uh Will start at just a just a second Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks everyone. Are there technical difficulties? We're live Great. Are we ready Alfredo? Yeah, we're ready. Okay. I see I accidentally hit play on that. Sorry Okay, okay Sorry about that everyone um Yeah, so as you can see, you know chat gpt can do quite a lot. There are some limitations to it And Yeah, um, that was just like a quick little demo. Um There's a lot of potential use cases like I mentioned earlier And you can use this, you know in As librarians in in your workflows and tasks you can try experimenting with it, but You know Caution is is recommended with this. It's um, it's not always accurate. You really need to double check what it What it responds with So, yeah, that was just a quick overview and demo of chat gpt for you Thank you everyone else who's who's presented. Sorry about that little technical difficulty earlier Um And Yeah, here's some references for the the papers that I mentioned um And a few additional reading recommendations if you're interested to learn more about chat gpt And yeah, I guess I'll pass it back to Dr. Chow Thanks, and it gets a great great job I also want to mention that nick is actually an intern for the polo alto city library as part of The school of information Special topic internship experience. So And again, uh, great great job nick and it's also gratifying to know that even chat gpt gets his html tags wrong it Uh, which actually is a good example of how chat gpt and uh in an ai in general Is being seen largely as a companion right now. Um, and as as nick said something that will For example generating a native code like that would take quite a few quite a bit of time Whereas chat gpt at least created the shell within seconds And then you can go back and fix whatever the the issue is After after scanning it. So I think that was a really good example Nick across all fronts, right, which is the other part that I find quite Dangerous is because chat gpt is able to do things so quickly and generate so much content so quickly It also makes it very hard to check as well. And I think that you know again nick's example is a perfect example of Ai and chat gpt. Um, often it's not quite there yet And but obviously if used correctly, it can be a huge asset. So Yeah, nice Nice job. Nick. Are there any questions? We figured there might be some questions from About the chat gpt one in general. So team if you want to look on our Our youtube live stream to see if there are any questions. Um, and while we're wrapping up I want to thank the entire team for their their work and efforts So again part of our mission is to have our students Be able to have a hands-on experience including this live stream A webcast and we had a few technical difficulties just getting started, but that's also part of Part of the process. So I want to I want to thank all of our students in their dedication We we also have drones and robots that We did not make part of this today's live stream But we'll likely Be something we'll highlight in the future again drone technology Again, it's perfect for stem as well as creating unique images and experiences That for example looking at a mountaintop from above As opposed to just seeing it from from below and and robotics Again especially with AI more self-autonomous robots That can kind of serve as companions as well as again be excellent Devices to teach stem Again, both those robots and drone technology children and and adults alike love them because you can Edit a little bit of code And the robot and drone will drones will do what you asked it to do and it's always very Very intriguing and very Exciting so you see on the screen here. Um, if you like the slide deck feel free to Take a snapshot of that qr code and also If you want access to our website, there is the qr code there I'm dr. Anthony chow. There's my email address And alfredo, uh, who is our lti lab coordinator. It's done a great job Rosine team. Do you want to say goodbye before we Include I want to thank all again all our students chase jennifer, uh, nick Rosine Irene in particular rosine and Irene. They are they have been with us from the very beginning And we really appreciate your contributions to all that the lti lab is now today In off script, uh, alfredo rosine. How many partners do we have now approximately? Do we do we have a ballpark? As far as how many have joined our network Alfredo is saying we have have nine now nine. Okay, wonderful Excellent Um, all right any parting words from uh from anyone any parting words Well, uh We can hear you with the mic. Okay, perfect. No, I just want to say thank you for uh joining us live And also if you're watching on the recording Hopefully you found this useful and kind of see the evolution of the lab And then Hopefully come back annually and check to see what we do because we'll keep giving these live streams They're going to share this information So on behalf of rosine and the rest of the lti team And dr. Chow want to say thank you. Thank you to palo alto for letting us do this in your space and Uh, have a great rest of your day everyone. Thank you. Dr. Chow. Yeah, thank you very much Okay, that concludes our uh live stream. Thank you everyone Take care. Bye