Week 6 - Group, Project Selection and Project Timeline

So our group work started this week meaning that our group will be working on one project for the remainder of the semester. I will be working with Kahlia Lickiewicz and John Nissen.

This project is broken up into three areas (Object, Senario and Behaviour) with each group member taking responsibility for one of the areas. Here is the group member allocations that we have made along with links to each of their blogs so that you can follow the whole groups progress:

Kahlia - Senario: http://letsdesignsomeinteraction.blogspot.com/
Once the senario is established Kahlia will be responsible for ensuring that we are well informed about the environment in which the product will be situated. She will be responsible for making sure that the product that we are designing is remaining true to the senario needs and requirements.

John - Object: http://interactionthroughinteraction.blogspot.com/
John will focus on the technology and manufacturing and how we can physically bring this product onto the market in an efficient and cost effective way. He will ensure that we know which materials, technology, manufacturing methods, transmission methods, and ergonomics factors can be applied to our project.

Myself (Michael) - Behaviour: Here on this blog.

I will be focussing on the behavious of the product and how we can design the behaviour of the product to influence or assist the behaviour of the user. Although each area (Senario, Object and Behaviour) are interconnected, the behaviour provides the link between the object and the senario in a tangible sense. I will be looking at how the mechanism works in relation to the behavioural interaction that we are designing and how we can use the technology that we have available to bring about the product's tangible interaction.

This week we also selected the project that we all would like to continue on with for the rest of the semester. The decision was made to continue on with the "Burning the candle at both ends" project. The original video demonstration of the interaction can be found here:

Week 5 - Concept Presentation: Burning the Candle at Both Ends...

 

and the original narrative can be found here:

  Week 4 - Story Boards: Burning the Candle at Both Ends

 

After selecting the project we collated a timeline for the rest of the semester based on the deliverables required. The following is a breakdown of the remaining weeks right up until the final presentation in week 13.

The blue time slots show us where we need to be developing a particular deliverable while the orange timeslots show us important but slightly flexible deadlines and the red timeslots are deadlines that must be met in order for us to complete the project on time. Key dates include the design freeze in week 9, finalisation of the design details and presentation parts in week 11 for the final presentation in week 13.

This will help us progress toward successful completion in week 12 and presentation in week 13.