Week 15: Wrapping it up!

So the presentation went wonderfully! And the last two weeks have been all about getting the submission finished and finalised. The boards are now complete, as well as the specification report! So now its all just a matter of handing it in this afternoon. Thanks so much to Marienalla, Yasu and Tim for all their help on this assignment. It was a pleasure working on it, and we had lots of fun playing with model-making, and conducting the video. So thats it, hope you've enjoyed!

Week 14/15: Submission!

So the submission includes:
Design spec report
Blog
Presentation board
CDs with everything on it!

With the design spec report pretty much finished, we've been working lots on the presentation boards, with my role primarily being with editing the images in photoshop. An example of these can be found below:

Until next time!

Week 13: The Final Scenario video!

So here it is! Finally the finished video is completed! We all had an absolute blast working on this and were really very happy with out the final outcome came out! Enjoy! You can find the video here on Mikes Blog: http://dnb601-senseandsensuality.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B10%3A00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B10%3A00&max-results=44

You can also find the link below to our final presentation (which changed a lot from the last screen shots that were made. http://prezi.com/71shl7piqzck/dnb601-final-design-presentation/
Until next time!

Week 12/13: Finalising the scenario Video and the Presentation

So this week was all about finalising the presentation and the scenario video. 

For the presentation, we're using 'Prezi' which is a visual stimulating program that makes powerpoints a hell of a lot more exciting! It also easily allows for videos, pictures and text to be uploaded conveiniently. Here's some screen shots of the the prezi so far:

We're also working on finalising the scenario video. Its based on 5 characters working collaboratively together in a group: Meet Sylvia, John, Mike, Kahlia and Dave. These 5 characters will be the key to the scenario video that we will present on Tuesday:

Will keep you updated on the video! Until next time! :)

Week 12: Planning for the scenario Video

 This week is all about planning for the SCENARIO VIDEO.

A rough plan of what we think we will do can be seen below:

As its a bit difficult to read, I will outline what the basic plan is.

We require:

• 5 characters
• 5 different scenarios
• 1 x levi-mate device (behaviour working model)
• Lots of props

Scene 1. Introduction page "Levi-Mate. Raising the collaborative spirit"
Scene 2. 5 x characters all waving at eachother in motion. Introduce the mission, project, due date and IMPOSSIBILITY of collaborating and getting it done on time
Scene 3/4/5/6/7. Introducing each individual character
             Character One: Sylvia (our PRIME CENTRAL example)
             Character Two: John
             Character Three: Mike
             Character Four: Kahlia
             Character Five: Dave
Each character has distinct characteristics about themselves which differentiate one from the other. Each has a 'PROCRASTINATION LEVEL' indicating 'LOW' 'MEDIUM' 'HIGH' ect
Scene 8. All 5 x characters entering and exiting 5 x different scenarios dependent on when they are working on the specific project and when they are not. This is all dependent on the individuals characteristics and their tendencies towards study.
Scene 9. Credits

NOTE FOR PRESENTATION// It's really important that we show in the presentation that Sylvia (our PRIME CENTRAL example) and her needs are linked into inclusive design. As we have established that Sylvia has a hearing impairment,its important we encorporate this in 'the client' section (i.e.; Sylvia has a hearing impairment) and in the 'client needs' section (i.e.; a device that is highly visually stimulating due to her inability to hear at full capacity)

It's very important to create COHESION between Sylvia, universal/inclusive design and our product solution: The Levi-Mate.

Week 12: Encorporating inclusive design into our chosen scenario

I also found three journal articles on deaf individuals the role visual stimulation has on communication within and between these individuals: 

Feasibility of a visual prosthesis for the deaf based on intracorticai microstimulation of the visual cortex (Bak, Schmick, Hambrecht,  Kufta, O'Rourke, Vallabhanath, 1996) states:
"The concept of a cortical visual prosthesis for the blind is based on the fact that localized electrical stimulation of the human visual cortex can excite topographically mapped visual percepts called phosphenes...Repeated stimulation over a period of minutes produced a gradual decrease in phosphen brightness."
 The journal article can be found here: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/119/2/507.full.pdf+html

Attention to central and peripheral visual space in a movement detection task: an event-related potential and behavioral study. II. Congenitally deaf adults (Neville and Lawson, 1986) states:
"By contrast, with attention to peripheral visual stimuli, event related brain potentialss from deaf subjects displayed attention-related increases that were several times larger than those from hearing Ss and different in scalp distribution."
The journal article for this can be found here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_cid=271080&_user=62921&_pii=0006899387902964&_check=y&_origin=&_coverDate=10-Mar-1987&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlk-zSkWz&md5=2a24953e58b699f833e789c4be4df5cf/1-s2.0-0006899387902964-main.pdf

Effects of foveal stimulation on peripheral visual processing and laterality in deaf and hearing subjects (Reynolds, 1993) states:
" Deaf and hearing subjects were presented with peripheral target stimuli (simple geometric shapes) presented tachistoscopically to the left or right visual fields under four conditions of foveal stimulation: (a) no stimulus; (b) simple geometric shapes; (c) pictorial shapes (outline drawings); and (d) orthographic letters. Dependent measures were detection response latency and peripheral shape recognition (errors). With error data, hearing subjects showed a right field advantage under foveal conditions of no stimulus and simple shape stimulus, but a left field advantage with pictorial and letter foveal stimuli. Deaf subjects showed the opposite effect, with a left field advantage under foveal conditions of no stimulus and simple shape stimulus, but a right field advantage with pictorial and letter foveal stimuli."
The journal article can be found here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1422967

These three extracts indicate that visual stimulation plays a huge part in enhancing communication within a partially/fully deaf individual. This aligns perfectly with our product and is an important factor to encorporate and consider when we are presenting our "client example" in week 13. 

Until next time!

Week 11: Exploring the Design Specification Report

The finalised design spec report can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/home#/Public::: (reference to PRODUCT DESIGN SPECIFCATION)
The reference list from all the journal articles and research we sourced can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/home#/Public::: (reference to REFERENCE LIST SPEC REPORT)
And the finalised design brief can also be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/home#/Public::: (reference to PROJECT BRIEF INTERACTIVE DESIGN)
Until next time!