Saturday, May 30, 2009
week 12 final
we almost finish our work,the only part of work we have not done is the coding of the final quiz, to be honest, i nevet thought the final quiz is that hard, we actually already tried severl ways to do the final page,and then changed agian and agian, it becomes complicated then what i thought, because we are not good at this coding part, we dont have programming background, that's why it becomes like that.
but we finished finally with Dekker's help, we just want to say thanks to Stephen, Dekker ane Marrie, they really helped us, we ll keep it in our heart.
but we finished finally with Dekker's help, we just want to say thanks to Stephen, Dekker ane Marrie, they really helped us, we ll keep it in our heart.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
week 11 final version
After we finish the first version for our book, we just relised what we should bind it each pages together......and also stephen help us a lot, he tried to find a way to put each pages together, and finally he thought may be we could use the materials already exist, for example, the notebook already had the binder, and we probably could use it...
After then, we went to bookshop, second-hand book shop in our school,and also we went to print shop in the city, we want to find a materials with a binder, eventually, we did..
we want to redo it again, even we already been made the book for 3 times .... but still we would like to show our perfect book without any regret. then we make it again by using the new binder materials.
we cut the binder from the notebook, and then we start to make single page, after that, we put the binder in the middle of the page, and pur two single pages besides...
here is our final version for our physical book:
After then, we went to bookshop, second-hand book shop in our school,and also we went to print shop in the city, we want to find a materials with a binder, eventually, we did..
we want to redo it again, even we already been made the book for 3 times .... but still we would like to show our perfect book without any regret. then we make it again by using the new binder materials.
we cut the binder from the notebook, and then we start to make single page, after that, we put the binder in the middle of the page, and pur two single pages besides...
here is our final version for our physical book:
Thursday, May 21, 2009
week 10 first-edition of our physical book
we start to work on the graphic works based on the interview, we had figured out what our main character looks like? how many characters do we need? what is the situation they are in? and what is our main line through the whole book.
we go and ask feedbacks from tutors and lecturer, they suggest us to make the story as simple as we can.
After that, we start to do the skech work, to put our ideas down to to the paper, it helps us to manage and organise each page for our physical book, we begin to put more details onto each page, including the content, and colors.
This is our fist version of physical book, have a look!! plz
we go and ask feedbacks from tutors and lecturer, they suggest us to make the story as simple as we can.
After that, we start to do the skech work, to put our ideas down to to the paper, it helps us to manage and organise each page for our physical book, we begin to put more details onto each page, including the content, and colors.
This is our fist version of physical book, have a look!! plz
week 9 physical book
we had been through a lot of ways to get the physical book done, it has been changed a a few times, we first made a demo-work for the physical work, it does not have any images on it, we just want to show how the physical book to be interactive to children, like pop-up thing, rotate method and pull-push method, we actually been to library and go to check what kind of books are chilren's favourate, sounds books and pop-up books are our best target to look at .
here is our pics from library.
here is our pics from library.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Week 8 technology!
We had been through a lot of ideas from the begining of this semster till now, we were thinking that use FlaToolKit, and RFID technology before, because they are really cool to show our ideas, but we considered our situation so far, we think better to use barcode and actionscipt.
We asked Dekker about the technology, we want it to be easy to use and easy to set for our target users. so we are thinking to use barcode to be each pages, when users turn over the page, the animations will be changed automaticly.
Then we are thinking to use webcam and projector to catch children's motion. because there is a quiz for testing children how much they learnt from the interactive book, the webcam have to detect children's motion, it's in order to allow children drag any of rubbish in the animaiton by hand to put them into the right garage bins.
We are starting to learn action script now, and also dekker send us some useful imformation about the technolgy to us...we will keep working on this....
We asked Dekker about the technology, we want it to be easy to use and easy to set for our target users. so we are thinking to use barcode to be each pages, when users turn over the page, the animations will be changed automaticly.
Then we are thinking to use webcam and projector to catch children's motion. because there is a quiz for testing children how much they learnt from the interactive book, the webcam have to detect children's motion, it's in order to allow children drag any of rubbish in the animaiton by hand to put them into the right garage bins.
We are starting to learn action script now, and also dekker send us some useful imformation about the technolgy to us...we will keep working on this....
Week 7 interview results
I finished the interview work, and then arranged the interview materials agian, i found a few interesting things.
The first thing is that parents doesn't want their children to read this book before they go to sleep, children would be excited if they read it, if's hard for children to go to sleep.
Secondly, i found that children would like toread books with a lot of animals, so we decided that animals would be our main characters in the physical books and the flash animations based on the interview.
the third thing is that children like to read pop-up books and voice books, its easy to catch their attention, children always be curious with those kind of pop-up thing and nature sounds.
The last thing is we need to keep our story in the book as simple as possible, because our target users are 4-6 yrs children, they dont read much text in their age, so we have take this problem as seiours issue, and also be careful to use siple and short words to show our ideas in the project.
The first thing is that parents doesn't want their children to read this book before they go to sleep, children would be excited if they read it, if's hard for children to go to sleep.
Secondly, i found that children would like toread books with a lot of animals, so we decided that animals would be our main characters in the physical books and the flash animations based on the interview.
the third thing is that children like to read pop-up books and voice books, its easy to catch their attention, children always be curious with those kind of pop-up thing and nature sounds.
The last thing is we need to keep our story in the book as simple as possible, because our target users are 4-6 yrs children, they dont read much text in their age, so we have take this problem as seiours issue, and also be careful to use siple and short words to show our ideas in the project.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Week 6 Interview questions
This is the final verson of the interview questions. Marie helped us to perview those questions, and then i changed a little bit to make it final copy...
we made appointment with two families on sunday. lol...
hopefully we can get the works done in this week..
the following info is our interview questions:
Interview:
We are designing a project for children, named interactive story book, it is in order to inspire and support children when learning to read.
The interactive story book looks like a normal book, but children are able to experience a computer based interactive book. The children will find 2D animated world when they turn over the page. Children can read the book by themselves or together with their parents.
The content of the book is about sustainability, ecological environment, such as how to save water, how children can protect the environment, etc.
Questions:
1.Do your children enjoy reading books?
If they like reading, where do they like to read?
What type of books do they like?
2.Have your children read any interactive books?
If yes, can you describe what interactive activities they had?
Did your child enjoy reading interactive books?
3.To what extent do you think it is good for children to learn reading with an interactive book?
4.When do you think it would be good to use the interactive story book?
5.Where do you think it is good for children use the interactive story book?
6.Would you like to spend more time on accompanying your child to read the interactive story book each day?
7.What is your child’s favorite cartoon character?
8.What impact would the interactive story book have on your daily relationship between your children and you?
9.(show design suggestions of the interactive story book to the interviewed person)
What do you think of this design? Do you have any suggestions on improvements for better functionality?
we made appointment with two families on sunday. lol...
hopefully we can get the works done in this week..
the following info is our interview questions:
Interview:
We are designing a project for children, named interactive story book, it is in order to inspire and support children when learning to read.
The interactive story book looks like a normal book, but children are able to experience a computer based interactive book. The children will find 2D animated world when they turn over the page. Children can read the book by themselves or together with their parents.
The content of the book is about sustainability, ecological environment, such as how to save water, how children can protect the environment, etc.
Questions:
1.Do your children enjoy reading books?
If they like reading, where do they like to read?
What type of books do they like?
2.Have your children read any interactive books?
If yes, can you describe what interactive activities they had?
Did your child enjoy reading interactive books?
3.To what extent do you think it is good for children to learn reading with an interactive book?
4.When do you think it would be good to use the interactive story book?
5.Where do you think it is good for children use the interactive story book?
6.Would you like to spend more time on accompanying your child to read the interactive story book each day?
7.What is your child’s favorite cartoon character?
8.What impact would the interactive story book have on your daily relationship between your children and you?
9.(show design suggestions of the interactive story book to the interviewed person)
What do you think of this design? Do you have any suggestions on improvements for better functionality?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
week 5! Presentation!
we are going to present our two ideas after we talked to the lecturer and tutors on monday, we have to make 2D or 3D prototypes for our two ideas for tommrrow's presentaton.
i think we did really good work in this week!
our two ideas, one of it is the universial device and the other one is interactive story book.
for the idea one, we want to help people to exchange their personal information immediately, and the idea comes from a bussniss card. our concept is to collect all personal details together, and they can share, what you need to do is simply touch others phone or card by using yours. for example, if we are going to denist, the first thing you have to do is to make appointment with your doctor, and fill our the form with your personal details. what if we just use device to get the personal details transfer, and we save our time to fill out the form.
the second idea is designed for children, a book there, and when you open the book, the animation will show up, when you turn over the page, the animation will changed.
what we want to do is the help children to study in a more fun way. also we would like to show the context about the sustainablity, like how to save water, etc.
it is good for childrens.
i think we did really good work in this week!
our two ideas, one of it is the universial device and the other one is interactive story book.
for the idea one, we want to help people to exchange their personal information immediately, and the idea comes from a bussniss card. our concept is to collect all personal details together, and they can share, what you need to do is simply touch others phone or card by using yours. for example, if we are going to denist, the first thing you have to do is to make appointment with your doctor, and fill our the form with your personal details. what if we just use device to get the personal details transfer, and we save our time to fill out the form.
the second idea is designed for children, a book there, and when you open the book, the animation will show up, when you turn over the page, the animation will changed.
what we want to do is the help children to study in a more fun way. also we would like to show the context about the sustainablity, like how to save water, etc.
it is good for childrens.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
First edit--prototype
This is the first edited prototype i finished, hopefully it helps to explain our ideas clearly, waiting for the feedback to do some changes for this first edited one.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Week 4 Brainstorming!!!!
My new idea comes from the buses. The biggest inconvience for the people who take buses every day is that the buses always get late, so we have to wait and wait till the bus comes.
what if our target is disabled people - especially blind people, we are talking about what they really need!
what is not convient for those people?
In consider of saving time and money, i thought this is an issue we should care about.
inconvience:
1. Blind people could not see the noticed board which shows the bus timetable.
2. They do not know wether the coming bus is the one they want to catch.
3. They need particular person who can take care of them to help them to get on the bus. How long will it take? The person can not do anything without others help.
4. I used to see a blind woman sitting at the bus stop and holding a paper board which has the bus number on it, which is in order to show
the bus driver which bus she wants to catch. please notice her!
For the convenience of those disabled people especially for the blind people , we intend to build a 'Voice Prompt Device' at each bus stop in Brisbane.
What is a 'Voice Prompt Device'?
Let me introduce this with it's working process. When the bus gets close to the bus stop, the device installed will do an early broadcasting.
The content is about the bus numbers and also the exact time the buses will arrive.
How to achieve?
A sensor will be installed an hundred metres away ahead of bus stop. This equipment can induct buses passing through and identify them with their bus numbers and the estimated arriving time. Then the recorded information will be sent to the device in bus stop and be transferred into voice messages so as to remind passengers.
What technology will be used?
RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) Tag will be installed in buses, different buses will have different identification code. The sensor is the RFID reader which can identify their differences by different codes. In terms of the device installed at bus stops, in order to save energy, we are going to use solar cell to keep it working.
Some other functions
1. In order to Check wether the buses will come on time or not, all the 'Vocie Prompt Devices' will be connected to Traffic Command Control Center, which means the center can record the time of the buses, so as to supervise drivers.
2. Regarding the traffic problem which may happen, for instance, when there are traffic jams or accidents, the buses could't arrive on time. The control center is able to consdier the situations and give proper suggestions, and they also can broadcast the traffic report to all the people by radio which could help them to choose better trasnportation methods.
what if our target is disabled people - especially blind people, we are talking about what they really need!
what is not convient for those people?
In consider of saving time and money, i thought this is an issue we should care about.
inconvience:
1. Blind people could not see the noticed board which shows the bus timetable.
2. They do not know wether the coming bus is the one they want to catch.
3. They need particular person who can take care of them to help them to get on the bus. How long will it take? The person can not do anything without others help.
4. I used to see a blind woman sitting at the bus stop and holding a paper board which has the bus number on it, which is in order to show
the bus driver which bus she wants to catch. please notice her!
For the convenience of those disabled people especially for the blind people , we intend to build a 'Voice Prompt Device' at each bus stop in Brisbane.
What is a 'Voice Prompt Device'?
Let me introduce this with it's working process. When the bus gets close to the bus stop, the device installed will do an early broadcasting.
The content is about the bus numbers and also the exact time the buses will arrive.
How to achieve?
A sensor will be installed an hundred metres away ahead of bus stop. This equipment can induct buses passing through and identify them with their bus numbers and the estimated arriving time. Then the recorded information will be sent to the device in bus stop and be transferred into voice messages so as to remind passengers.
What technology will be used?
RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) Tag will be installed in buses, different buses will have different identification code. The sensor is the RFID reader which can identify their differences by different codes. In terms of the device installed at bus stops, in order to save energy, we are going to use solar cell to keep it working.
Some other functions
1. In order to Check wether the buses will come on time or not, all the 'Vocie Prompt Devices' will be connected to Traffic Command Control Center, which means the center can record the time of the buses, so as to supervise drivers.
2. Regarding the traffic problem which may happen, for instance, when there are traffic jams or accidents, the buses could't arrive on time. The control center is able to consdier the situations and give proper suggestions, and they also can broadcast the traffic report to all the people by radio which could help them to choose better trasnportation methods.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Week 3 Review
Desktop Fireworks from Saqoosha on Vimeo.
Description:
people hope their lives becoming more fresh by using new technology. They are not only satisfied with their wealthy life, but also
want to improve their lives, no matter mental demands or material demands. It being partly responsible for upgrading
new productions to be functionable and sustainable. As a new technology age, ARTOOLKIT would be a high-performance technology.
Technology:
The desktop fireworks has been created by using the ARTOOLKIT technology, users just need to print out the A/R code from their site, hold it up to your webcam and voila, instant virtual fireworks came out, great way to get the public playing with this new technology. designer
used Flash and ARToolkit (the ported version of ARToolKit) and Papervision3D.
Visual C++ plays an important role in the whole process as well.
Project Process:
1. The camera captures video of the real world and sends it to the computer.
2. Software on the computer searches through each frame for any square shapes.
3. if it found a square, the software uses some mathmatics to automaticlly calculate the positon and orientation between webcam and the black square.
4. once the webcam knows the position, a computer graphics model is drawn from that same position.
5. this model is drawn on top of the video of the real world and so appears stuck on the square marker.
6. the final output is shown back in screen, so when the user looks through the display they see grahics overlaid on the real world.
here is the sketch for the process design:
Project dissemination & usefulness:
ARTOOLKIT has been exploited as a bran-new technology in resent years, more and more productions have been designed by using this technology in educational field, economic field, enviromental field and so on. Taking game design by using this software as a good example, the fresh technology which players never met before could help game developers to create a huge benifit. If we change the content from fireworks to alphabet or mathmatics, it could be used as an educational materials to teach childrens in the most interesting way in the future. Most importantly, people only work with a few softwares, they do not need to use other materials, it has significances to energy saving and environmental protection.
Relevance:
The relevance of taking this course in three reasons. Firstly, it created in a interactive way. secondly, it largely saved materials. For example, users only need to print out the square marker or save the images of each square marker into PSP or MP4 to play with the game. Constrate with other games, it does not need any handle controls to play with the game, which saved materials indeed. Thirdly, papers could be recyling after the game, this is the proper way to reduce enviromental pollution in a sense. This is exactly how to achieve sustainability and interaction.
Reflection:
It inspired me to dig this technology deeper and deeper, looking forward to see more productions created by using ARTOOLKIT technology.
As a user, i know how to take actions to save energy. On the other hand, designers could notice what the users truely needs, it is the other way to save materials too.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Week 2 Research for TOPIC!
Desktop Firworks
I found one of the most interesting design in the web is the "DESKTOP FIREWORKS", created by saqoosha. a japanese flash developer.
as you see, the demo, how the fireworks work in front of the laptop. it is amazing!!
Desktop Fireworks from Saqoosha on Vimeo.
when i was doing my reaserch work, fortunately i found the designer's blog about this desktop fireworks,
which is http://saqoosha.net/2008/08/31/1221/
He shows people how to set up or install the software, and what techniques he used in his work.
and then i want to dig further with this technique, called ARtoolKit, Augmented Reality (AR). It is pretty new technique. I found the webpage to describe
what exactly how it works.
for further informations, you can check out the web:
http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/handheld_ar/artoolkitplus.php
"ARToolKit is a software library that can be used to calculate camera position and orientation relative to physical markers in
real time. This enables the easy development of a wide range of Augmented Reality applications. ARToolKitPlus is an extended
version of ARToolKit's vision code that adds features, but breaks compatibility due to a new class-based API"
http://www.hitlabnz.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7
This is the place people wants to develope and work with code within this technique.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit
This is the source web for ARTOOLKIT technique. you can look at.. and free to download the software they used!!!
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/download/
this is the download page for different types of laptops, for Windows,Linux and macOS systems. easy to get to know this!
I found one of the most interesting design in the web is the "DESKTOP FIREWORKS", created by saqoosha. a japanese flash developer.
as you see, the demo, how the fireworks work in front of the laptop. it is amazing!!
Desktop Fireworks from Saqoosha on Vimeo.
when i was doing my reaserch work, fortunately i found the designer's blog about this desktop fireworks,
which is http://saqoosha.net/2008/08/31/1221/
He shows people how to set up or install the software, and what techniques he used in his work.
and then i want to dig further with this technique, called ARtoolKit, Augmented Reality (AR). It is pretty new technique. I found the webpage to describe
what exactly how it works.
for further informations, you can check out the web:
http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/handheld_ar/artoolkitplus.php
"ARToolKit is a software library that can be used to calculate camera position and orientation relative to physical markers in
real time. This enables the easy development of a wide range of Augmented Reality applications. ARToolKitPlus is an extended
version of ARToolKit's vision code that adds features, but breaks compatibility due to a new class-based API"
http://www.hitlabnz.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7
This is the place people wants to develope and work with code within this technique.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit
This is the source web for ARTOOLKIT technique. you can look at.. and free to download the software they used!!!
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/download/
this is the download page for different types of laptops, for Windows,Linux and macOS systems. easy to get to know this!
Week 1 Sustainability
It is totally new word to me, i looked up the dictionary.
The defination of "sustainability" is involving the use of natural
products and energy in a way that does not harm the enviroment and that can continue or be continued for a long time.
everyone does effected in this issue.
We had a short disscussion,how to save energy and money around us in our daily life? how the production could be sustainable in
designer's respect and user's respect.
what we missed out in our daily life? designers should keep this in their mind to make productions more sustainable. users could
upgrade the productions with higher functions. It is in order to save materials and money as well.
we think the most interesting exmaple would be the energy tree. it shows how much energy we used. and what else the tree
needs? it helps users to reduce the energy clearly. obviously, it shows on the devices. it is just cool!
we don't notice how much energy we have used until we see the bill. So, if the device could give us feedbacks on whether it
should be turned off, it could help us on saving the energy.
The defination of "sustainability" is involving the use of natural
products and energy in a way that does not harm the enviroment and that can continue or be continued for a long time.
everyone does effected in this issue.
We had a short disscussion,how to save energy and money around us in our daily life? how the production could be sustainable in
designer's respect and user's respect.
what we missed out in our daily life? designers should keep this in their mind to make productions more sustainable. users could
upgrade the productions with higher functions. It is in order to save materials and money as well.
we think the most interesting exmaple would be the energy tree. it shows how much energy we used. and what else the tree
needs? it helps users to reduce the energy clearly. obviously, it shows on the devices. it is just cool!
we don't notice how much energy we have used until we see the bill. So, if the device could give us feedbacks on whether it
should be turned off, it could help us on saving the energy.
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