Reflection on the Group Project
BY Xiaoyi Cai (Mia) Date: 3/1/2021
I. Biome Simulation Chamber
- The main concept of the Biome Simulation Chamber
Based on the science fiction “Newton’s Sleep”, we made a project called “Biome Simulation Chamber”, the advanced Earth stimulators, which can display hundreds of different sceneries of the Earth. Unlike the VR, Biome Simulation Chamber can allow the users to directly get in touch with those sceneries, which enables users to get a better understanding of the Earth. By clicking the button of Biome Simulation Chamber, users can gain a different scenery, such as the beach in summer, trees in winter, and etc. It’s inevitable that there’s some limitation of our project. First of all, due to limited materials, we have no way to achieve the true size of the model. Also, considering the situation on the ship, not all the stuff of scenery in Biome Simulation Chamber can be turned into physical ones.
- Process
After we decided on the rough idea of our group project, we created a new google doc where everyone could share their opinions of our project during the Spring Festival. As we’ve done full preparation, on the first day after the Spring Festival, all of us gathered together to work on our project, and we got a rough model and script. Considering that everyone’s free time is different, we divided our works into several parts. And I was responsible for the tree and umbrella with Elena. After finishing all the work, in order to present a good performance, we rehearsed several times.
II. The Performance of another group
During this week’s recitation, there’re 8 groups that gave us the performances of their group project. In my opinion, they’ve all done a great job, I can see their great effort oh their projects, and their amazing creativity. Among the other 7 groups, one of the performances that have impressed me a lot, because their performance was so attractive. The name of their group project called “Alternative life (Sorry if I make a mistake of its name, I could not remember the name clearly)”, which can transfer the user’s into reality. In this way, the users can release the pressure and problems they’ve suffered in the real-life and then restore a good mood. I think it is a good interactive artifact that realizes the interaction between human thought/mind and the machine “Alternative life”. However, in my opinion, it still can be improved to a better version. Considering that this artifact cannot turn his dreaming “alternative life” into reality, it may make people immerse themselves into this artifact, and even will lead to the addiction of it, which can separate them from their real lives. For a suggestion, I think while designing this kind of artifact, I’d better take more consideration to teach people who have a hard time how to get out of these annoying problems.
*Here’s the video of our Performance 😉
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gp3eA_PbxNlZ4CyyZNYG8zzE2MN9SEd 4/view?usp=sharing