Week Eight 'Guest Lecture'

Guest Lecture ' Jared Donovan'

 To some up the lecture Jared spoke of the semantic approach and action centric.

The semantic approach focuses on a more desired input and output. It acts as a planned behavioral series of interaction.

Action centric focuses more on randomised series of outputs defendant on the level of interaction. The programming does not have a sequential order.  

Group dicussion

After listening to the lecture our group needed to solidify our concept for the following weeks presentation. Our concept stems off the following weeks concept generation. To have an interactive tail communicating series of information between users. The tail will be integrated within the existing online platform 'steam'. As our users are gamers, metaphors in the form of interaction and visual aesthetics will be crucial design elements. 

The designs OBS aspects contain of the Object being the interactive tail engaging in a social environment for gamers. The tail will communicate data to then later be accessed by the user via steam. The behaviour will be gestures communicating directly to the function.

Conversation with Yasu

Our conversation in today's Tutorial involved the interaction aspect of the product. Yasu mentioned that the tail was a nice idea but was unsure of how it related to gamers and exactly the way in which it will be used in a social environment. The concept of gamers and steam was exceptional in terms of linking an existing platform back into the physical realm. However Yasu mentioned maybe a tail was not the right approach. As our user group was a broad demographic, the tail didn't relate to a specific genre.

The decision was made to continue with the tail concept as we felt our ideas were not communicated properly during the tutor. We decided to present the concept in the direction we where heading and figured it was early enough in the project to take a risk and run with our original idea as Kiu was passionate about the tail form and we believed the interaction would suit the user demographic.