Our Planet
As from the research Vivien has done for the first stage, she has realized unsustainability/climate change is one of the most vital issues that the United Nations has addressed lately. Vivien would want to work on something that illustrates the outcomes of unsustainability. But in the project, we would also like to show how humans could participate in the process of lessening the harms of unsustainability. Ian is highly interested in doing something that requires collaborations among people. He has proposed an idea of encouraging four people to make some movements simultaneously for the project to function. If only one person participates in the process, the project will not provide an outcome. Thus encourages collaborations among people, even among strangers. We both are highly interested in each other’s ideas. And we have worked together to combine these two ideas into one doable thought. Then we have figured out that we would want to create a project that requires movements among several people to lessen the unsustainable global issue. For the movement part, we want to make it very specific. The participants need to physically use a shovel and plant trees to push back the time of the earth explosion. The faster they plant trees, the longer the earth would stay away from the explosion. However, if the participant chooses to work alone, then there is no way for him to get fast enough to beat the accumulated speed for several people. We would set the number in our codes to be ridiculously high to make sure that no individuals could accomplish this goal by himself. In this project, we want to raise people’s awareness of the harmful outcomes of unsustainability. However, we would like to highlight the positive effect that we can bring forth through the collaboration processes. Our targeted group of the audience would be everyone on this planet. Overall, the earth is everyone’s plant. We all have to take part in helping to solve the unsustainable issue.
We need to be certain about the detail of the design by prototyping and test it with the users. User test should be in every step. The details include: whether or not to include mask in our project; what types of sensors we decide to use; what material we will use; how will the user interface look like; sound, start and end, layout and position. We will test with the comfortability and the cleanness of mask. We will finish discussion for all the details and have a blueprint by Sunday, Nov. 24. We need to build the circuit and the program that are both scientific and humanized. This will be very practical work. We may encounter many problems. We will refer to online references and asking for help. Once when we finish the user interface, we will have someone to test playing with it to make sure it makes sense to the audience about the expression of our initial design. Finish before Dec. 1. We need to get the materials and build up the basic functional prototype. This is practical work as well. We only need to make sure it can support our project to work. It can be done by Dec. 1 as well. We need to test with the accuracy of counting the movement of shovel and breathe. Also bug fixing work. This process needs our constant revising and test among ourselves and our users. We will list out all the bugs the project has and fix them one by one until it works exactly what it is supposed to be. It should be done by Dec. 6. Beatifying the project and adding something to improve using experience and accessibility. This step we will need to decorate everything, make the wires invisible, test the projection. After we think it works, we will invite many groups of people to interact with it. By hearing form their feedbacks, we can make some little changes to better make it user friendly and accessible for as many people as possible. It should be done by Dec. 8.