The spring semester at NCSU is all about interface, so we have been hard at work! So far we have picked a database (that would enable us to explore different affordances), started a concept map, did rapid prototyping, and responded to three project prompts requiring us to explore user motivation and attributes of experience. I chose 'color in relation to nature' as my database.
Below are current screenshots of my concept map:
And my results from our rapid prototyping session:
Our professor Denise Gonzales Crisp invited the second year students to take a break from thesis and watch a screening of our prompted moments in Burns Auditorium this coming Wednesday. I'll be posting my compilation video later this week.
Today in Seminar, my classmates Kelly and David had a great idea for discussing our assigned reading. Relevant to the discussion of technology and it's implications, we partnered up to mediate our comments through Xtranormal (a text to movie website).
The process of converting a face to face conversation into an animated "conversation" was very eye opening. The tone of our physical conversation was primarily serious in nature, but that changed once we began directing how it would be broadcasted. In the end, the agency over the childish avatars, sound bytes, body gestures, and camera angles provoked a more playful tone in dialogue.
Watch below as Wendy and I discuss Sherry Turkle's text:
I'm fully aware that this video might seem a bit odd out of context, but nevertheless I found the implications of this exercise worth sharing.
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