11th February
February 11, 2009
This week consisted of sketching interface and gesture concepts for the interactive project which came out really nicely and many creative ideas were popping out. These ranged from circular, futuristic and floating menu designs due to the nature of the project. People are not robots, thus can never draw perfect square boxes or circles consistently, so the way the menu appears would be a floating type action and very dynamic to how and where the user finishes creating their shapes. For instance, if the user created a box starting from the bottom right and went round in a clockwise fashion, the menu would appear on the right as that is where the user’s finger was at the end.
Also some ongoing secondary research has progressed in terms of getting influences from already established prototypes on the net. Even simply looking at illustrations for colours, styles and lighting are so inspiring and the group really wants to get a unique feel and intuitive sense for the project. Here are two youtube videos and illustrations to show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WM8wL24USc&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RetJ_W6s-V8&feature=channel_page
http://mariyumi.deviantart.com/art/Lute-106890415
http://yanabondareva.deviantart.com/art/100-102658039
http://luminatii.deviantart.com/art/Organic-REmix-66228502
http://jomino.deviantart.com/art/io-97517210
These and many others gave ideas on how the concept would look and feel from a digital perspective and the way finger inputs would link up to create a centre area as shown in the first youtube video. It had a potently good place to create a menu if the user does not desirer making shapes for their media.
Additionally a number of questions were written down for a survey which will be setup at http://www.surveymonkeys.com. This site was used by many students last term and served them all very well with a number of options for questions and statistics after. Although they are rough, these give an idea on what areas the group are looking into asking. These will be pushed around, removed and improved on what’s relevant to the project.
• Is your wall cluttered/messy and full of images? Because of devices?
• What type of stuff is on your wall?
• Do you think 0.3mm televisions and… is becoming “silly”? Pointless
• How many screens/lights/media in your room?
• Is thinner better?
• When interaction with objects, what do you find easier to navigate with? Colour, sound, touch or feeling?
• Do you fill up walls? Is it colourful/vibrate?
• What type of television do you have?
• Do you care about all this high definition?
• Do wires and linking up devices annoy you?
• Do you keep things tidy?
• Do you currently see interactive walls as a gimmick or potentially something greater could come out of this… way of presenting information?
• Do you like these new touch-screen phones? (iPhone, LG)
• Would you say your quite technical as in know the ins and outs of your “setup”. Television, speakers, wire setup etc.
• Do you prefer a “don’t care as long as it works” attitude towards technology or do you like the option to play with settings?
• Do you find all these individual devices scattered across your home an inconvenience? Would you prefer that device to follow you instead?
