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Instruction Sets For Strangers Prototype 2

Interactions we hoped to produce

Implementation of these artifacts encouraging group activity due to the ambiguous nature of the affordances & familiarity 

An engaging reward system in a game / activity with the shapes 

Engaging activity that involves strangers without having to communicate verbally

Collaborative play

Final Outcome

Reflection

What we learned:

Challenge personal “assumptions” about people

Why compete with the other forms of entertainment provided?

It wasn’t a lack of interest - rather a lack of direction/context

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Instruction Sets For Strangers Prototype 1

Role

“Role prototypes are those which are built primarily to investigate questions of what an artifact could do for a user. They describe the functionality that a user might benefit from, with little attention to how the artifact would look and feel, or how it could be made to actually work.”

An ode to consumerist culture

Removing ourselves from hyperactive space

Anti-chaos machine

Arcade game that subverts arcade game

Carnival ride that subverts carnival rides

Look & Feel

“Look and feel prototypes are built primarily to explore and demonstrate options for the concrete experience of an artifact. They stimulate what it would be like to look at and interact with, without necessarily investigating the role it would play in the user’s life or how it would be made to work.”

Individualist tactics that promotes reward → i.e. testing strength, accuracy, etc.

Intuitive/self explanatory nature of games that are there

Allowing customers to take pleasure that’s typically un allowed (whack, ring my neck, shoot the clown in the mouth)

Design affordances

Implementation

“Some prototypes are built primarily to answer technical questions about how a future artifact might actually be made to work. They are used to discover methods by which adequate specifications for the final artifact can be achieved - without having to define its look and feel or the role it will play for a user.”

We foresee implementation of these artifacts encouraging group activity due to the ambiguous nature of the affordances & familiarity. 

Reward system that draws on systems of consumerist culture vs. an impossible game that you can’t win

Feedback

What would the walkthrough look like?

How would we bring people in?

Location - middle or pushed to the sideline of the boardwalk?

Make it free so it’s more approachable.

What materials are we using?

Does it need to be multiple objects? How could it be successful as just one?

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Reflection

Major Studio 1 as a whole made me rethink the way that I come up with research questions and how I tackle them. Since the beginning of my final project, I have done research in some ways that I had never thought of. Instead of doing research and then coming up with questions, I did it the other way around. Coming up with questions that you may or may not want the answer to is not easy, especially if I was going to base a whole project off of those questions. During many stages of the final project process I thought that this research phase was extremely challenging for me because of this. As soon as I was stuck in a rabbit whole for the topic of deadlines for example, in the very early stage of my project, I came up with even more questions I wanted to explore. This happened with every precedent I encountered. I had a love/hate relationship with this because I thought that my project was never going to be completed somehow. Even though I wanted my final prototype to be polished and done, I knew that my project was going to be at a research stage even when it was due. Moving forward, I want to continue experimenting with different and new mediums I have not worked with. To continue researching topics that have a personal connection with me in order to have a more successful process and outcome will be my next main objective in my design career.

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Final Project - Final Prototype

After meeting with my instructors, I decided to keep a similar format to my prototype #3. Before making more “data visualizations” for other shows on my list, I wanted to tidy up my design structure. The pen’s point was increased to show more of my designs and I brought the opacity of the shows’ clips lower. The footage of the shows was also fast-forwarded even more to make the pen designs stand out even more. As for the audio, the ticking clock was changed to sound more modern/digital.

I would want this project to be displayed on a wall with a projector. The size of it should resemble the size of my computer screen, 13 inches wide. This will be a peak into my “screen” for the audience to see one of my habits (watching 50+ shows in a four month period) and experience how time-consuming it can be.

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Final Project - Prototype #3

The main goal of my final prototype was to explore how my data sets could exist in the digital world and if they reflected the same energy as the paper ones (prototype #1).

I decided to add short, fast-forwarded clips of each show and blending them with my actual process of drawing my data.

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Final Project - Prototype #2

For my second prototype I decided to stick with just a black pen and shifted the color usage to the paper. I used small index cards to document each data set and I think it successfully showed the time and detail I wanted to demonstrate.

I also did some designs for other data sets I had, eye contact list, but it didn’t turn out like I thought it would. 

For my next prototype I want to explore the possibility of these data set to live in the physical and/or digital world and how I might integrate more information about the shows in the actual design.

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Final Project - Prototype #1

For my first prototype I wanted to continue exploring the various lists I did documenting some of my habits. I looked over the many lists of routines and chose one (TV shows). Then made note of all episodes/seasons and how much time it took to finish them. After, I picked 15 TV shows and started drawing the data in a way that it reflected something about that show.

I decided to draw each data set on paper and used colors to represent each show.

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Prototype #7

Many things in my life either increased or described during lockdown. For example, my social contact with people and my motivation to get out of bed decreased by 100 percent and my food intake and tv consumption increased by 100 percent. Lockdown was filled with ups and downs but everyone experienced lockdown differently.

I wanted to use all the ups and down I encountered and show that data in fun and informative way. I may want to compare my experiences’ data with the whole population (still not sure).

I was inspired by Mona Chalabi’s instagram account, as she does a lot of data visualization projects with any kind of current topic.

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Prototype #6

During lockdown, I became a little bit obsessed with lists. It didn’t matter the kind of list, I just wanted to make them for everything (yes, I was very bored). I began to create lists of everything I did, from what I eat to watch movies I watched for the 10th time. Here are some examples:

Food

04/10

10:03 banana

2:17 Cuban sandwich

6:03 mixed nuts

10:11 pizza

10:32 banana bread pudding

05/10

8:50 croissant

10:43 apple

2:56 pizza

9:50 arepa

10:45 banana bread pudding

06/10

8:13 banana bread

3:01 sweet green

3:24 raspberry lime drink

Songs

10:00 visa para un sueño 

10:08 lovely day

10:19 si estuviésemos juntos

10:24 i still haven’t found what I’m looking for

10:28 the middle

10:31 island in the sun

11:50 Long Beach

11:53 September

11:57 chemicals

12:01 lost

12:05 clocks

12:10 flashing lights

12:45 she will be loved

12:49 all night

12:52 could you be loved

8:02 overnight 

Eye contact (with family member inside house or across the window with neighbor)

12:01

12:08

12:09

12:10

3:24

3:35

3:50

3:57

4:00

4:04

4:10

4:22

4:28

4:32

4:35

4:38

4:45

4:59

5:00

5:07

5:15

5:17

5:22

5:25

5:38

5:50

5:54

6:11

6:15

6:22

6:24

6:32

6:33

6:35

6:37

7:00

7:03

7:05

7:07

7:20

I wanted to create lists all of the things i did during a certain day. I then went over them and decided if I was happy or not with how I was spending my days in boredom. If I wasn’t, I would scratch that list and made another one with different activities I made myself do.

I want to display these lists somehow. It could be a big reveal of these lists in a canvas, maybe projection, or even just a recording of someone reading these lists.

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Prototype #5

Instead of continuing with footage exploration as I did in the last four prototypes, I wanted to do something different. Explaining why the perception of time changed during lockdown is not easy. Maybe it could be somewhat explained in a game.

I want to show different patterns with various colors and display them for different amounts of time. Then the game will ask a question about how long the player thought each pattern/shape lasted on the screen. Depending on the answer, the game will explain the why of it.

I didn’t want to prototype the game as a prototype, so I tried to sketch it somehow. 

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Prototype #4

I wanted to experiment with what I mostly did during lockdown, keep an open communication with family and friends all over the world. Everyday I called my loved ones via FaceTime and talked for hours about our experiences during the quarantine.

I started to make a collage with some of the screenshots I took during my calls. Most of them are with my family which lives in Panama. I usually saw them 5-6 times per year before COVID-19, so during lockdown it was very hard not to see them.

Moving forward, I would want to create an image with all the combined screenshots of my FaceTime calls, but i may think this could look too crowded or even disorganized.

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Prototype #3

Instead of filming myself, I wanted to show what I did in a day during lockdown differently. For both my first couple of prototypes I used my body’s movements, so I used my words to explain what my day was going to look like.

I started describing my routine for that day (added a “?” because I never knew what day it was) in a google document. I went on and on about my daily activities (not very fun ones) until I hit a dead end (aka boredom).

I used different fonts, weights and sizes for some words/sentences to add more significance to them.

Adding the music was essential because whatever I did during lockdown, I was always listening to my tunes.

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Prototype #2

After digging up some information about what people did during lockdown, I found out that many people started to create vlogs. I wanted to simulate what vloggers did on their daily basis.

I started with my non-existent skin-care routine. I tried to add the attitude the vloggers show in their videos. I then started to go over what I did during the day, such as homework, lunch, and other things that boredom would lead me to do. 

I just used my phone’s front camera to film myself and made edits in After Effects to mix all of the videos filmed throughout my day.

P.S. It’s not easy being a vlogger

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Prototype #1

I wanted to experiment with footage of myself and things I would do during lockdown (search what to do to not get boring inside the house). I placed my phone next to my bed and made a 5-hour video (fast-forwarded it to have videos with different speeds). I later wanted to explore the camera on my laptop, so I made a short video on it and applied a filter (I played with soooo many filters (Instagram mainly) and wanted to implement that as well.

I then tried to blend all of my videos in a single clip using After Effects and I kept all of the original audio.