Coach meeting Sietske Klooster 7-3-2005 Present: Sietske Klooster, Laurie Scholten, Rutger Menges, Jan vd Asdonk, Lilian Admiraal
We went to the ‘Omniversum’ which has a great effect on you because the screen is everywhere around you. The experience is much bigger than just at home before your little tv screen. When you look at the ‘Ambilight tv’ you see that just a little bit of light can also make a big difference and has a great influence on your experience.
Instead of making/designing an object we want to design an experience. One that also has influence on your senses. We want that you have to use your senses in a whole different way and that you will use them unaware, or that you have to use them as a surprise.
Together with Sietske we also spoke about our vision and changed this vision.
Coach meeting Jun Hu 4-3-2005 Present: Jun Hu, Laurie Scholten, Rutger Menges, Lilian Admiraal, Jan vd Asdonk
We did research at interactive media and interactive theatre. Internet is also interactive media (looks like the newspapers, but then interactive). Movies can also be interactive media, but more passive than internet. We have to do more research at MPEG4 and at interactive movies.
We want to use more senses and get them to a higher level, which can help with the experience of things and how you will experience them.
‘The new everyday’ is a book that can give you a vision, but it doesn’t go in deep to our subject, it is hard to get a focus. It has to be ambitious.
We have to make a good conclusion about the research we have done, because we have nothing on paper so far, although we did some research. Make the things we done so far visual; physical.
Our vision has to be our start point of our concepts and not, as it is now, our conclusion of our research. We first have to finish our research, because else we have no real end of our research or start point for our concepts. Maybe we could see the report of the European topic with the Philips projects to get an idea what we can make, get inspired.
Jun Hu has proposed a workshop so we would get familiar with URL, JAVA, HTML etc. We have to make a static web page with plaintext, editor (notepad). Thursday 10th March we have to have made a simple web page in HTML and we will have a workshop in JAVA for 1,5 hours.
Next time we have to send an agenda before the meeting and prepare the meeting. We also have to present our research visual and our intermediate results in-between and we will present our concepts on an abstract level.