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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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;…

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…

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…

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…