Constraints : Interactive project based on consideration of human sensibility – happy, sorrow, solitude and etc.

The reason why I chose the direction of 7 in 7 ideas is because I’m interested in HCI and human’s feelings, and I want to explore more of interactive design with my interest.

For the first project, I made a interaction project draft with rough idea. I chose “smile” as a key word to feel happiness. This concept is from the quote, “We don’t laugh because we’re happy. We’re happy because we laugh.” by William James.

Also, I added sound effect which plays when user clicks the baby in processing code. However, I don’t know why but it shows some errors, so I couldn’t upload the code of sound effect.

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/108115

Constraints: Make a mobile exploration game. Player can only user one touch to play. Actually figure out how to deploy a prototype.

So for a while now I’ve wanted to figure out how to compile and deploy prototypes on a mobile device (something i’ve never done alone).

my design for the gameplay was a minimalist single player game about surviving in the wilderness. The user would play a kid in a snowsuit that got lost on his way home in a blizzard. To survive you just have to find food and build fires to keep warm. The only interaction would be moving the character with one finger. The idea is that you could play this while doing something else. It requires very little concentration. It also isn’t distracting in a social sense, just a relaxing little single player exploration game.

PROTOTYPE VIDEO <— click this to see a blurry video of the proto

As a commentary on the importance we place on our position in the digital world and more specifically how our Facebook page represents us, I wanted to recreate as “Resume Builder” in the form of a Facebook profile creator service. My service is titled “Facebook Builder” and offers a variety of ways to improve your social network image.

Here is a mock up of the Homepage of the website that touches on the services provided by FaceBook Builder. IT claims to assist you with your profile creation, help you take selfies, and help you construct statuses, all in order to portray the life you want.

Facebook Redesign

Our social life can be extremely diverse, and we have developed different sides to deal with our different social positions since when we were small children. Most of the time we show quite different faces or personalities and characters to our teachers, friends, co-workers and family members. But when this diversification comes to our digital social applications, such as Facebook, it can be a problem to organize and classify them in different categories. Facebook has tried to help its users classify their friends by putting them in additional smaller categories, but putting our friends on Facebook in different groups and managing those groups can be very frustrating.

My concept for a Facebook redesign is to try to find a way to for its users to manage their own personality sides more easily.

We do not really need make groups because people already make themselves into “ groups” by inputting their basic information on their own profiles.

Facebook can use that information to analyze each person and put them into groups for us. I want to design a filter function that can use keywords to filter and add exclusivity to a post. We can just type in a keyword to make our personal post to present to certian groups by location, education experiences, job experiences and languages.

When we open the Filter function, It  has two sides( as the picture below). The light blue part help us to make a post to filter certain groups friends and also filter friends who use certain type of language. The dark blue part can help us to filter the notifications in our pages to filter the information that we do not need to see in our Facebook.

This week’s readings both explored and argued the positives and negatives of how we share, record, and learn information through “artifacts”. What made their approach so interesting for me was they they both begin from a purely analogue perspective. Escaping Flatland deals mainly with how we preserve visual datasets that cannot be observed directly, in our multidimensional space. It addresses the analogue by giving a retrospect on  out techniques of bridging the gap between 2d and 3d. Conversely, The Power of Representation deals with how we interact with textual datasets, citing the changing role of books, reading, and language throughout history. It collectively defines these tools as “cognitive artifacts”, and states how they rely of representation to convey information. I personally liked how the The Power of Representation used the perspective of Socrates to illustrate the negative effect that books could have on society, as it’s easy to see this aspect in many types writing today. Writing as a discipline has essentially becomes a craft of changing the readers opinions through arbitrary wording and selective supporting information. However, I can understand the argument that this is a fault with the reader and not the technology itself. In Escaping Flatland, I liked how the reading sited both abstract methods of conveying 3d information in 2 dimensions (such as the frog skin), as well as “brute force” solutions to the disconnection (such as models and stereo illustrations). In the end, my opinion is that 2 dimensional displays of information are really more successful when the user doesn’t have the means to naturally interact with 3d information. I think of how 3d artists user their software as opposed to traditional clay sculptors. Both are essentially accomplishing the same goal, but 3d artists usually prefer having multiple (orthographic) flat perspectives of their work in progress, where as sculptors prefer the physicality of clay and sense of touch.