Today we need to submitted our wiki researches and our pre-project plan document to our lecturers. Before class at the afternoon, we had a short meeting at our leader place to do a short discussion.
We start deciding which interactive installation can be used as our references. At this moment, I discovered that different people have different perception on same object when
we start exchanging our own opinions and perception about each research we have
done. As
I am responsible for recording all the discussion we have made, I have learnt
how to get the important points of discussion and record them down so that we
can have a clearer reference on our next meetings.
After that, we discussed about what are the tools available for us to set up our installation. We have suggested 3 ideas, which are Arduino, Infrared and Kinect. The main reason we suggested these 3 tools because we have learned Arduino and Infrared before in our previous lectures and workshop, and our lecturer has introduced some features provided by Kinect to us before.
Based on the researches we have done, we prevent ourself from making something that are lack of interactivity and less interesting. The ideas we have after our discussion are make something useful and fun to interact with and make something boring into interesting installation. We have listed out what are the input and output options available for us:
Input:
- Sound
- Phone
- Infrared (Touching)
- Kinect (Motion Gesture)
- Light
Output:
- Sound and Music
- Projector Imaging
- Object (Mechanical)
Before we making any decision, we found out that there are a lot of people using infrared (touching) as input and projector imaging as output already. So, after some discussion and consideration, we plan to use some mechanical objects as output and make something that can catch people attention and create curiosity among them.
After discussion, we compile all our wiki researches together and start create our pre-product plan document. When we create our pre-product plan document, I also learnt
from my teammates how to use table wisely to clearly display the different of
objects on Word Document. By using this technique, readers are able to understand
the features and differences easily in one glance.
At the afternoon class, we have presented our primary ideas to our lecturers and have received many useful feedbacks from our lecturers.
From our lecturers feedbacks, we know that we need to think about creative aspect of our installation. It is best if we can create something outstanding and non-repeated ideas. We need to know our target devices and our capability. For example, Kinect is too expensive for us if we going to buy a new one. So, maybe we can choose other options such as rent or borrow from other people.
In addition, our lecturers also brief us on our own responsibilities and project managements. We need to know how to manage our team work loads and think about our own time managements. I learned how to set a target, for example spending how many hours per week in doing certain tasks from our lecturers.
Last but not least, I have learned that we need to keep updated on new application trends and think from different perspective.
