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About the Ingenium Digital Innovation Lab
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The Ingenium Digital Innovation Lab is Canada’s go-to creative hub for improving access to digital experiences within the cultural sector. |
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There are over six million people with disabilities in Canada. That’s where we come in. |
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The Lab connects national and international collaborators with Ingenium’s user experience, interpretive, and digital experts to develop digital accessibility solutions, methods and products to help improve access to museums spaces, collections, and experiences for all Canadians. |
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Located in the state of the art Ingenium Centre, the Digital Innovation Lab provides real-world access to a whole host of amazing features including: |
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A purpose-built space featuring whiteboard tables that flip up to adjust for height, a height adjustable touch screen, a smartphone-based accessible audio system, and modular furniture to accommodate a variety of access needs and set ups to suit your project requirements. |
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A specialized sound booth & control room, and a full video production lab. |
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One of a kind 3D digitization technology to scan and render objects and artifacts of all sizes. |
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Community-based networks and audiences for usability and accessibility testing. |
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We have the skills, experience, space, equipment, networks and audiences to collaborate or provide customary fee-for-services that help design, enhance, test, and deploy your digital product against the highest standards in digital accessibility. |
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Digital accessibility is for everyone’s benefit. Let’s work together to make access for all a reality. |
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What is the Ingenium Digital Innovation Lab?
The Digital Innovation Lab is a collaborative hub for exploring innovative ways to improve access to museums spaces, collections, and experiences for all Canadians. Working with academia, start-ups, visitor-serving industries, and the accessibility community, the Lab explores emerging technologies, user experience and accessible design to create more inclusive experiences for everyone.
What we offer
Unique in Canada, the Digital Innovation Lab connects national and international collaborators with Ingenium’s user experience (UX), interpretive, and digital experts.
We have the skills, experience, space, equipment, networks, and audiences to collaborate or provide customary services to help design, enhance, test, and deploy your digital product against the highest standards in digital accessibility.
We also look to partner with organizations that seek to develop products that are community-based and inclusive, and to help advance the development of digital accessibility standards and practices for everyone’s benefit.
Access to space and technology: The Lab features innovative spaces, AV suites, and access to Canada’s one-of-a-kind collection of 3D artifacts, along with one-of a kind scanner in Canada that can quickly digitize large objects and spaces at a high level of fidelity and speed.
Access to digital expertise: The Lab offers various collaborative opportunities and specialized workshops in digital accessibility, 3D scanning and rendering, UX, and digital museum practices.
Access to audiences: The Lab can connect you with a wide variety of audiences for user testing your digital products.
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Accessibility features in the lab
- Sennheiser MobileConnect allows audio to be accessed via a smartphone app in which headphones and hearing aids can be synced via Bluetooth, allowing users access to live presentation audio which they can adjust to their needs
- Whiteboard tables that flip up to allow for someone in a wheelchair to use them, comfortably
- A touchscreen that can be adjusted up or down to the height of the user, including someone in a wheelchair
- Moveable furniture to accommodate different projects/set ups
Some of the High and Low Tech We Explore
- Digitization
- 3D modeling and printing
- Games and game engines
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Data visualization
- Accessible and inclusive design
- Creative storytelling
- Design-thinking
- Rapid prototyping and testing
The Lab’s 10 Guiding Principles
DESIGN THINKING
GROWING OUR NETWORKS
WORKING OPEN, SHARING RESULTS
ACCESSIBLE AND INCLUSIVE
COLLABORATION AND CO-CREATION
RESPONSIVE, AGILE, AND TESTING OFTEN
ENGAGING THE PUBLIC
STEAM
EXPLORING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
FAILURE WITH PURPOSE
“I have really enjoyed and appreciated working with this Lab. I find that they really think through their projects carefully, ask great questions, listen to our feedback and involve consultants in all stages of development. I am always excited to work with them on their very innovative projects.”
Kim Kilpatrick, Canadian Council of the Blind and independent arts consultant
“Ingenium provided our postgraduate students the opportunity to practice their research and design skills in a real-world context. Working directly with the museums and their stakeholders our students gained industry experience while studying, an applied learning experience that directly supported their career ambitions.”
Jed Looker, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Centred Design
3D Model of the Newtsuit. Replica diving suit, from the Ingenium Collection. Artifact no.1986.0907.001
Let's work together!
Services offered include:
- Workshops and Webinars
- 3D scanning and rendering
- Space and equipment rentals (AV, coworking, etc.)
- Digital accessibility audits & user testing
- Event rentals
- Consultation services
Workshops and Webinars
The Digital Innovation Lab offers paid half-day and full day, hands-on workshops for teams interested in developing their skillsets in user experience (UX), digital, 3D, and accessibility. Online webinars are also available as condensed, one-hour versions of the workshops without hands-on activities, but offering a live Q&A after the presentation.
All webinars and workshops can be delivered in English and/or French and are customizable in content and length. We will work with you to tailor examples and outcomes to your objectives and projects.
Workshops can be delivered online or in-person at the Digital Innovation Lab.
These sessions are for people in government, private sector, academia, museums, or other visitor-serving industries, but we’ll also extend beyond that if there is interest.
UX Workshop: Reframing Challenges Using Design-Thinking (click to expand)
Participants in this workshop will engage in various UX activities that are used in the design industry to get into the mindset of the user and build a stronger product for them. The tips and tools learned in this workshop can be easily applied to your own company projects with your own unique visitors/users.
Participants will leave the hands-on workshop feeling confident that they can use these tools independently.
Digital Accessibility Workshop (click to expand)
This workshop will give participants an overview of digital accessibility for web and other digital products including WCAG standards for web accessibility, a discussion on screen-readers, and how to make your websites more accessible for all.
This workshop will also review Ingenium’s Accessibility Standards for Digital Products, including how to design more accessibly and inclusively for your visitors when it comes to digital kiosks, AR, and more. Participants will learn about the different ways to design for visitors, and how to test their digital products for accessibility, using real-world examples from Ingenium’s own accessibility projects.
Please note that this workshop will only cover digital accessibility, not accessibility in the built environment.
3D Digitization Workshop (click to expand)
This workshop will give participants an overview of the basics of 3D digitization including photogrammetry, 3D scanning, 360 photos, and how they can be used to engage your audience.
This workshop will talk about the benefits of 3D digitization, the different file types and outputs (including 3D printing, gaming, online collections, etc.), how it can help in the conservation effort, and special considerations like copyright infringement.
Participants will learn how to 3D scan an object using one of the Digital Innovation Lab’s state-of-the-art 3D scanners, and discover the work involved in post-production.
Learn more about our services and offerings (PDFs):
The Ingenium Innovation Challenge
The Digital Innovation Lab serves as the host space for the Ingenium Innovation Challenge. With a wide array of associated programming ranging from panel discussions, 1:1 mentorship, and specialized workshops, our unique working space welcomed students from across the STEAMB fields in their journey to build a digital product that inspires and educates Canadian youth to tackle key issues of our time.
