OMG JK
We decided to take OMG CMU out of its virtual medium and into a physical, tangible one to see how people's interactions with it changed. We printed out all of our contributors' photobooth pictures and taped them to the windows (not walls:)) in the corridor of Margaret Morrison's 1st floor. We left sharpies, post-its, and small signs that encouraged passer-bys to leave comments on any of the photos.
The "JK" aspect of this post's title comes from our finding that this physical re-creation of OMG CMU did not add much (at all) to furthering our research probe. We observed the hallways a few times during the day and some one or two passer-bys looking at the photos, but didn't catch any of them leaving comments. The majority of people didn't pay any attention to them - which could be due to a number of reasons from size of the photos, to their placement in an 'access way,' or maybe even their familiarity with them already. Additionally, the few comments that were left on the photos were not insightful - which is understandable/expected.
We didn't have high expectations for this physical execution of the probe, but it's always good to test your assumptions rather than just leave them as assumptions.