Midterm reflection

Write about your experience with your midterm presentation and be honest. Did you prepare adequately? What do you need to focus on for the next 5 weeks?

Midterm slides

For my presentation, I think there is room for improvement in the prioritization of information. While I managed to be on time, I had to speed up my talking as a result, and I don’t think it was easy for someone who knew very little about my thesis to grasp all the content in five minutes.

Still, I received some very useful feedback and suggestions during the class, and I appreciate Gal and Moon attending as guests. Based on the feedback I have received, the current interaction may not be the ideal form.

  1. For acquiring environmental parameters from living plants, the slight variation or lack thereof may result in static data being collected.
  2. For touching plants and visualizing the process on the canvas, I need to reconsider this approach as touching plants is not the usual and natural way of interacting with them.
  3. I would like to keep the method using microphone input, but I need to address the issue of the Chrome browser restricting audio access.

Regarding my next steps, my original plan was to start prototyping this week. However, given the recent spikes of infection with the new Omicron and the delivery problem of hardware materials, I have had to make some adjustments to my timeline and plan. I will continue my research and develop another set of strategies to optimize issues such as the form of interaction and other objective constraints, for example the unforeseen pandemic situation in Shanghai, before I start working on the prototype.

Production timeline

Create a production timeline that encompasses the remainder of the Spring semester and the Summer session.