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....
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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?
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