20210422- Thesis update
The past few weeks I watched a lot of tutorials and did quite a few tests as well and this week I started to combine most of the interaction and test the behavior of the whole system. However I quickly noticed the problem that…
Thesis journal vol.9 user test(the script)
Last week, I’ve done scripted instructions in a linear way, including the narrator and sound design elements. Afterward tested with Ellen and Carrie. Ellen: -The whole story makes sense -like the first question and sound design especially the background sound -But she doesn’t think everyone…
Prototype and User Testing Sessions
In the last week, I was able to make two janky prototypes of my project. As the project takes on the form of a public installation that permits one-person entry at a time, I was thinking of a intimate, enclosed space. Moreover, inspired by the…
User Test of “Breathing”
This week I mainly focus on user experience design and tech. feasibility research. Monday Ruta helped me to simplify the test journey and technical approach, so I changed the original idea which might be unstable and easily broken for a later test. Original touchpoints map:…
#12 – User testing
Spent a lot of time doing some narrative adjustments and feels like it will never ends. Building a narrative for this has been an exciting journey but also a very demanding one, now I’ve decided to have a notebook just for all of the new…
Thesis Development
This past week, I refined aspects of the narrative & the user journey. I almost feel kind of breathless trying to synthesize the readings I’ve done (thanks too Anna Greenspan and Afroditi Psarra), mainly Pre-history of the Cloud, Network Culture, Sparks to Signals, Atmospheres of…
Show-a-Thing Reflection
Inspirations and thoughts from the guest feedback sessions: I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to have received feedback from three guests who all gave a different and insightful perspective on my project. As one of the guests commented, the project involves much public engagement;…
Week 10 – Prototype progress and two interviews
Prototype development Link to the current version of prototype: https://editor.p5js.org/adamcolestock/full/GP9c3xH0a I made some nice progress working on my p5 prototype for user testing in the upcoming Feedback Collective and in the next class session. Some key design developments that went into this prototype: Making the…
Thesis update & user testing
Conceptual update Last week I’ve started to read The Great Animal Orchestra by: Bernie Krause, and it reinforced me with new knowledge about natural soundscapes and the source of musical inspiration for modern societies. Bioacoustics are also a strong indicator for analyzing the overall health…
User Testing – Fisher
editing… Interview questions & results (47 results: 42 Chinese, 2 British, 3 American, need to continue to improve the interviewee group.) 1. Which platforms do you tend to know about information/news on? newspaper 5 tv show 19 wechat moments/微信朋友圈 12 public account push 21…
Kat Sullivan
Adam Colestock
Helen (Chenuan) Wu
Christina Lan
Dorian Janezic
George Faya
Julia Myers
Kelsie Smith
Michael Morran
Po-Wen Shih
Liu Siyan
Fisher Yu
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Craig Protzel
Christopher Wray
Haoqi Xia
Hayden Carey
Katherine Nicoleta Helén
Maria Maciak
Parisa Shemshaki
Sakar Pudasaini
Skyler Pierce
Steven Doughty
Yiqi Wang
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Andrew Lazarow
Benoit Belsot
Enrique García Alcalá
Hongyi Zhang
Jay Mollica
Li Shu
Teddy (Jian) Guo
Monika Lin
Wenye Xie
Yiru Lu