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Log week 14
Tuesday
- We've been working out the "ball concept"
- We've thought of scenario's of use and how we can present them.
- We've prepared to make a Flash presentation to show the scenario of use for the next Coaches meeting.
- It's not clear yet what each possible interaction will have on the Mov'In. We've got some ideas but these need to be ferified with a user test. Such a user test can be held simultaniously with the programming.
Monday
We've filtered and combined the "Last three" concepts/ideas. Most important conclusions :
- In order to keep the social aspect of the living room and to make the concept suitable for most living rooms we can only use 3 planes of the room. (a part of) The ceiling, (a part of) the floor and one wall.
- Up until now all our concepts focussed on the experience, not on the interaction.
We thought up an idea for the interaction -> A ball that can change its appearance according to the content of the movie. This ball is the link between the virtual and the real world. Users can interact with this ball in any way they like (i.e. bounce, throw, hold etc. etc.)
Log week 13
Friday
Coach meeting with Jun Hu. Minutes on Dc222Home/MeetingMinutes
- Most important disision is that we're going to work out our "Last three" concepts / ideas into on good final concept.
Wednesday
Interim meeting. Minutes on Dc222Home/MeetingMinutes
Tuesday
Preparing for interim meeting
Log week 12
Working out the concepts and make drawings. All for the interim presentation
Log week 11
Friday
Meeting with Philip Ross
Coaches meeting
Minutes on the minutes page
Wednesday and Thursday
From research to concepts
We took the most important links of our research as input for our concepts. The concepts spread from very feasable to far fetched. The concepts (that are now linked to the reseach) still need to be categorysized. This will happen next Monday and Tuesday
Tuesday
Defining the most important links from our research for our concept
From the scheme we made we took what we found the nost important / interesting links of our project. For these links we stated what was already on the market and what we could do with it so that it could be implemented in one of our concepts.
Monday
Linking the research
We linked the different kinds of research done in a map this map is the starting point for our concepts. The most important key words of this map are: Experience, interaction, activity and spatial distribution. In these terms our research comes together
I can hardly read this diagram - too many crossing lines. -- JunHu 2005-03-23 12:12:33
Log week 10
The goal of this week is to better define the research conclusions and to have a number of "concept ideas" that can be worked out in further detail in week 11 and 12
Friday
Coaches meeting
Thursday
- We all prepared a minimum of one brainstorm. The preparated brainstorms can be seen on our personal pages
Wednesday
Today we'd planned a meeting with Stepahn Wensveen. Unfortunately he wasn't able to come. That's why we've chosen to work on the refinement of the research today. We made a diagram that states in which are doing research.
JanvanderAsdonk worked on movies and games.The summary is on his personal page
RutgerMenges worked on the software that we are going to use in our project. The summary is on his personal site.
LilianAdmiraal worked on the relevant technology that is available and the development of this technology (from a small TV then, to a widescreen 7.1 system now to ...... in the future)
LaurieScholten worked on the home environment
Tuesday
Evaluation of the workshop of lasat monday. Results:
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spacial distribution |
perspective |
social relations |
senses |
What we discovered during the workshop |
* When multiple people (Who do not know each other) are in a room they distribute the space evenly |
* when you change the perspective you feel a change in your role. From observer to the observed * It makes a grate difference in experience when you face the other people in the room, or when you're standing back to back * You can switch between seeing details and seeing the whole picture |
* You are tempted to form groups, but you respect each others personal space. * The better your relationship is with the people you're in a room with, the smaller your personal space should be. |
You're tempted to whatch in the direction in which your (other) senses are stimulated |
conclusions for our project |
The current spacial distribution in the living room doesn't invite the audience for activity. The room is in balance with the audience sitting on the one side of the room and the television standing on the other side of the room. A different distribution might evoke the audience to be more active (like a television in the middle of the room or a screen behind the couch as well. |
Playing with perspective gives different experiences. This can give the user a feeling of involvement (the user can play with perspective) |
For us the personal space isn't of that big influence. We assume that the people in the living room have got a good reletionship with each other. |
We want to play with the senses. We can use the senses to attrackt the attention of the audience and to let them make choises (i.e. where do I want to look at? The mouce that I hear on the right or the light flashes that I see coming from behind me) |
Monday
Workshop with sietske klooster. We worked with:
- spacial distribution
- perspective
- social relations
- senses
Log week 9
The goal of this week was to do research to modern dance and theatre and their (possible) similarities to our project. And to do research to modern media, to see what already has been done.
RutgerMenges and LaurieScholten worked on the theatre and dance.
The research conclusions of RutgerMenges are on his personal site
LilianAdmiraal and JanAsdonk worked on modern media