Design ReThinking

This is the chair thinking about how AWESOME you really are:

Chair waiting for someone to sit / Version 1:

Chair waiting for someone to sit / Version 2:

Design | Part II

After the presentation in class last week we took the constructive critique along with our own brainstorming session, we decided to re-design the look of the chair and the screen. The chair needed more of a personality and cleaner look. Below are some of the designs we came up with and the one we choose as the final look for our screen.

Physical comp. part of the throne

Potential looks for the AWESOME Screen

Valeria, Catherine, and Rabia really appreciate any feedback YOU can provide as far as picking one of the following looks that best suits the AWESOME chair. Thank you in advance.

Content Listing & Plan of Attack

Awesome Chair

Visuals: (the screen should be up and running by the end of the weekend)

• Static Screen
• Thinking Screen (building on the thinking screen, we can design simple short AE moves, or simple messages that say thinking
• Awesome Screen (Final Outcome ) (using scraped data)
• 10 images/levels – for 10 categories displayed on screen.
  • The frames will be static and the images will be searchable from a database

Chair:

• Cardboard with arcade images
• Structurally need to figure out how it will work
  • Design around class chair because may just take one
• Think about traveling chair – possibly a folding chair with cardboard cover on top so we can test the chair in a few different places.

Awesome Meter:

4 PURE AWESOME

3 UBER AWESOME

2 MAJORLY AWESOME

1 AWWWHHHHHESOME

0 AWESOME

-1 EEEHHHH AWESOME

-2 POODLE AWESOME

-3 FORMERLY KNOWN AS AWESOME

-4 DUDE WTF

Awesome Things: (images to cover the chair, we should have these images by this wekend)

• Extreme Sports (snowboarding, skiing…)
• great designs
• space
• explosions
• motorcycles
• race cars
• mountain climbing
• graffiti
• subway art
• international things

Physical Computing: Seat button or hand sensor?

• Hand Sensor will work better with our project just because the subject can touch the sensor when ready instead of sitting on it

Things to purchase:

• a pressure sensor button
• might need a keyboard to take apart

Programs we will use:

• Processing
• Arduino (wireless)
• After Effects
• Flash

Point People and our major duties: Of course we’ll help each other…

• Valeria- Physical Computing
• Katherine-Processing/ possibly audio (audio for “how awesome are you?”, pure awesome, aweeessoommm…)
  • search for positive “awesome” images (10 for level)
• Rabia- Visual Design: chair, gage, screen (Design in After Effects or Flash)
  • search for negative “awesome” images (10 for level)
  • Researching for the biggest database of images for the levels as well as the look of the chair (possibly 3D images or objects on the chair to make it even AWESOMERrrr)

Rough Prototype | Searching for “Awesome” on Youtube

I also considered taking our search for Awesome a step further and decided to search for awesome on Youtube.com

results for “Awesome”:-

Prototype: sketch

Rough Prototype | Searching for “Awesome” Keywords / Phrases on Google

In order to display images on our screen that would connect to the sensors on our chair, we decided to do image searches on Google using the word “awesome” by itself as well as with other key words and terms. We wanted to see the image output for all our inquiries so we could picture a scenario in our minds for user testing.

The results for our image search are essential for user interaction. The following are search key words we used as well as Google’s image search results:-

Keywords with “Awesome”:

• Totally Awesome
• Not Awesome
• Very Awesome
• Amazingly Awesome
• Extremely Awesome
• Truly Awesome
• Surprisingly Awesome
• Ahhhh Awesome
• Retarded Awesome
• Disgustingly Awesome
• Retarded Awesome
• Simply Awesome
• Creepy Awesome
• Crazy Awesome

We also searched for images using just the word “Awesome” on Google and wrote down the phrases that are tagged under the images to see if we can make meaning of any of them:-

1. … more awesome than this picture!
2. Kelly “Awesome”
   
3. I searched for “awesome” in google
   
4. 
   
5. The Awesome V-Rex Motorbike-
   
6. Caps-Lock is FULL OF AWESOME!!1!
   
7. Today’s awesome photograph comes
   
8. (our God is an awesome God)
   
9. David Beckham Uses Awesome Bod to …
   
10. Check out all the Awesome Eye Chart…
11. Not Their Blog: January 2008
    
12. Awesome M.F-ing Dog
    
13. awesome t shirt closeup
14. That’s because you aren’t awesome

Finally these are screen shots of Google’s image search results for words using awesome:-

Rough Prototype

AWESOME!