From today's tutorial we met together as a group once more and brought forward our thoughts regarding our at home research and conceptual design into the topic, and as a group, decided that we needed to get away from the intended direction of 'Arriving Home'.
Personally I'm happy we did, as based on what I could come up with my own methods of research and concept developing/inspiration, it just wasn't there, I think as a group we weren't understanding the direction as best as we needed too, and therefore we just weren't motivated enough. I know I wasn't.
So having that in mind and getting it off all our chests we then took a couple of minutes to look at what concepts we did come up with and how they could be used differently in context and application.
Joeys concept of a wristband had the most potential to be applied in other scenarios outside our original context of 'Arriving Home' so as a group we decided to brainstorm the possibilities of different applications and potential for 'Sensing the News'.
Going off this we looked into Joeys concept of the wristband and her context application of a concert. He concept was that the wristband would communicate to her friend who she was listening to - picking up the sounds of the band playing. This was a great place to start as the context of a festival or concert has so much potential with communicating news.
We decided to quickly brainstorm for 15minutes where we saw the newly proposed concept and context application going. So, stemming off my ideas from the previous concept consideration, I decided to explore the option of a device in a festival senario that communicates location between two users. However, it was quickly brought to my attention by the group that that communication is just a GPS, and it doesnt really address the OBS of the project; fair enough.
I then decided, still taking influences from my older ideas that these devices at a festival could communicate the speed in which someone is trying to find someone else - this lead to the development of the function not being speed but potentially another form of movement that would communicate news between individuals.
We again discussed these options and somehow, through verbal brainstorming, landed on a functionality of letting users know who is dancing. From here we considered the purpose of communicating this news between individuals and seeked to see if it had any real relevance in context; we thought it did.
Our reasoning was that when at a festival, if you get separated from a friend or choose to go see another band etc, then it would be useful and relevant information to know if your friend is dancing or having fun. The only issue with this is not being able to find them...
Re-enter the GPS feature; by showing individuals where a friend is located and how they are dancing could be seen as useful information. The only issue at this point is how to make the communication of this information seamless and use gestures as possible methods of interaction.
As we continued to brainstorm various ideas and context implications we were running out of time in the tutor; we decided to go away and do some research ourselves into festivals for context and the potential user group we would aim to target, and then we would meet up again next week to discuss our findings and communicate any developments we may have designed.
Joeys concept of a wristband had the most potential to be applied in other scenarios outside our original context of 'Arriving Home' so as a group we decided to brainstorm the possibilities of different applications and potential for 'Sensing the News'.
Going off this we looked into Joeys concept of the wristband and her context application of a concert. He concept was that the wristband would communicate to her friend who she was listening to - picking up the sounds of the band playing. This was a great place to start as the context of a festival or concert has so much potential with communicating news.
We decided to quickly brainstorm for 15minutes where we saw the newly proposed concept and context application going. So, stemming off my ideas from the previous concept consideration, I decided to explore the option of a device in a festival senario that communicates location between two users. However, it was quickly brought to my attention by the group that that communication is just a GPS, and it doesnt really address the OBS of the project; fair enough.
I then decided, still taking influences from my older ideas that these devices at a festival could communicate the speed in which someone is trying to find someone else - this lead to the development of the function not being speed but potentially another form of movement that would communicate news between individuals.
We again discussed these options and somehow, through verbal brainstorming, landed on a functionality of letting users know who is dancing. From here we considered the purpose of communicating this news between individuals and seeked to see if it had any real relevance in context; we thought it did.
Our reasoning was that when at a festival, if you get separated from a friend or choose to go see another band etc, then it would be useful and relevant information to know if your friend is dancing or having fun. The only issue with this is not being able to find them...
Re-enter the GPS feature; by showing individuals where a friend is located and how they are dancing could be seen as useful information. The only issue at this point is how to make the communication of this information seamless and use gestures as possible methods of interaction.
As we continued to brainstorm various ideas and context implications we were running out of time in the tutor; we decided to go away and do some research ourselves into festivals for context and the potential user group we would aim to target, and then we would meet up again next week to discuss our findings and communicate any developments we may have designed.
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