Week Six: Concept selection and Brief distinction

Hello again!


After briefing with my new team, John Nissen and Michael Coleman, we have decided on our idea that we are going to continue on with for the rest of the semester.


John's idea was a "gesture reciever", where you could capture a gesture and send it to someone else. Here is John's blog: http://interactionthroughinteraction.blogspot.com/

Michael's idea was a "burning the candle at both ends" idea, that encourages late night workers to keep working when working in teams. Here is Michael's blog: http://dnb601-senseandsensuality.blogspot.com/


And obviously my idea, the mood helmet, can be found below in this blog.


After much deliberation, we decided to go with Michael's idea: "burning the candle at both ends". This idea is extrememly interesting, and will be very exciting to research and see if we can supply a working model by the end of the semester. The concept presentation of this design can be found here on Michael's blog: http://dnb601-senseandsensuality.blogspot.com/2011/08/week-5-concept-presentation-burning.html , as well as the original narrative/storyboard here: http://dnb601-senseandsensuality.blogspot.com/2011/08/week-4-story-boards-burning-candle-at.html


The project is broken up into three areas (Object, Scenario and Behaviour) with each group member taking responsibility for one of the areas. Our allocations are as follows:


John- OBJECT
John will focus on the technology and manufacturing and how we can physically bring this product onto the market in an efficient and cost effective way. He will ensure that we know which materials, technology, manufacturing methods, transmission methods, and ergonomics factors can be applied to our project.


Michael- BEHAVIOUR

Michael will be focussing on the behavious of the product and how we can design the behaviour of the product to influence or assist the behaviour of the user. Although each area (Senario, Object and Behaviour) are interconnected, the behaviour provides the link between the object and the senario in a tangible sense. He will be looking at how the mechanism works in relation to the behavioural interaction that we are designing and how we can use the technology that we have available to bring about the product's tangible interaction.

Myself (Kahlia)- SCENARIO

Once the senario is established I will be responsible for ensuring that we are well informed about the environment in which the product will be situated. She will be responsible for making sure that the product that we are designing is remaining true to the senario needs and requirements.

After selecting the project and deligating certain areas to the project, we made a project timeline which can be found here:

The blue slots show us where we need to be developing a deliverable.

The orange slots show important but slightly flexible deadlines

The red slots are deadlines that MUST be met in order to complete the project on time.

Key dates include the design freeze in week 9, design detais and presentation parts in week 11, and the final presentation in week 13.

Until next time!