Culture Dance UI Refinement After submitting our video documentation, lecturers not satisfy with the UI design as the closet I've done might send out a different message rather than a simple choosing cloths from different races. They suggested I can design using more iconic sign to lead the user. Therefore, I've redesigned the UI in different shapes and colours and a more modern feel for the installation:
20/1/2014 We brainstormed again for the installation we have to execute. We currently behind schedule due to multiple rejections. After the critique session, we try to execute based on our lecturer's feedback - we decided to create a photo booth which record down the movements of user. Then making a .gif file of them and send to them. After brainstorming, we proceed to our own role. I as the design leader have to create a prototype of the UI of the installation. I've proceed to find images on Google and start to clean up the photos for video documentation that is about to be handed in.
21/1/2014 Today is another day where we focus on our own roles. I continue to design the UI for video documentations.
I've decided to design closet as the UI for the installation because of the traditional cloths lies within it. Also different patterns symbolizes different races of the traditional cloths.
Also I've designed the prototype of the card that contains the .gif of the user as a reward. After finish designing everything, I've send the files to Angela for her to compile for the video documentation.
Presentation of Project Plan After finishing our project plan and also the presentation slides. We are to present to our lecturer of our changed of ideas. Our leader - Angela is absent today due to personal issue. Yaw as the representative of the group leader for the presentation day. We presented our idea, but the idea did not manage to impress our lecturers due to the lack or creativity on the interaction. It is too plain although users will be able to know about the basic gestures after playing with the installation. However, the installation is not fun enough to interact with. Our idea has been rejected. But lecturer gave us feedback that would probably make the installation more interesting by rewarding the users with a bigger reward. They also suggested us to create cultural dance move and we can record the dance moves done by the user and send it to them.
13/1/2014 After the proposal rejection. We've set up meeting to brainstorm a better idea. This time, we try to think of an idea which is more on problem focused. We thought of a few problem which are: identity, environment, anti-social, communication and etc. We finished off without having any idea on this day, just brainstorming and plain researches. 14/1/2014 Today, after brainstorming for a day the group decided to change project S.A.M into a Malaysian culture installation. We have our problem focused - foreigner do not understand our culture, basic greeting's gestures from different races. This installation is basically a tutorial installation where the virtual human inside the screen will react and give feedback of greeting in the specific race after the user greets to the installation. I find this idea is very plain and not interesting to catch audiences eye. And personally I do not like to do cultural-related project. However, due to the lack of time I did not voice out my opinion. After the group has decided, we proceed to refine our project plan and also creating our presentation slides for tomorrow's presentation. I've changed the UI on the project plan:
7/1/2014 We decided to scrap the hologram idea because lacking of man power, budget and also time frame. Also the shoe holographic idea serves no purpose and do not have any problem, it is more commercialized based installation, therefore it did not meet our project's brief requirement. We continue brainstorming for a new idea, an installation which serves a purpose and overcome a problem.
After researched this installation, we think of creating an installation which shares a similar concept of executing. We wanted to show audiences of people are obsessed with their phones and neglect peoples around them. Creating a virtual human in the screen where user interact with it and it will not give major feedback but just minor movement as if he's been pushed.
Then we started to write our proposal and project plan for Project S.A.M.
I've wrote part of the proposal and also created some sketches and UI.
8/1/2014
Project plan submission. After we've done our project plan, we submitted it. Unfortunately, our project plan is not approved by our lecturers. They critiqued the interaction of the installation and also the content behind the installation. Interaction is not good where user push and there's no major feedback from the installation, while content do not have a big impact which can create an awareness to the society.
4/1 - 5/1 These two days are still on research phase, the group and I have did research on interactive installation to see which type of installation are executable within our limited budget, man-power and time frame. We've discussed different installation to be executed but have not fixed on the idea. The area we've discussed are projection mapping, Kinect game installation, hologram and also Arduino.
