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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Dissertation presentation and happy weekend^^



Yesterday, we all finished our dissertation presentation, I think the I-median all did a great job in it. Congratulations! 
Here I have post my part in my blogger. Just attach it as a list of pictures.


Postscript: Here is the cover and title of my presentation.
Postscript: And I divided into 9 parts to describe my project, showed in the content slide.
Postscript: This system will probably combine some relevant form of machine, such as an alarm clock, electronic notebook, calendar in networks. The basic framework is under the reminder of alarm clocks, notes, and the recording pen.
Postscript: In this increasingly competitive society, people become increasingly busy and busy, to remember all the things simultaneously in their brain become more difficult. So they begin to choose the tool to help them remember something or select tool to remind them to do something. 

Postscript: There has a range of users, as long as they want things to note, need to urge them to do it. For example: students, business people hold a meetings, someone with medical issues, disable/old people and so on. But for some suggestion, the student may be the best target to design for.

Postscript: Originally I wanted this product design as a device, but later after some suggestions, I thought may turn it into application form would be better.
For example, it will be more inconvenient to carry with the device, but if the application is not the case, it can be installed in mobile phones, MP3, or electronic form inside, and these items are portable and convenient to carry with, so that, the value of this project is better. Therefore, if this is an application, it will be more easy to reminder our users at any time and at any places.
Postscript: The current thinking is that this idea is trying to be put inside the Apple products, so it's basic architecture is based on Apple's product packaging, during the design and creating process and with the teacher's advice, I think the most difficult thing to me is about the language, the programming issues, as the developer of Apple products, I need to use some certain language, the link showed in the slide.
Postscript: In the design process:
* User centered design. Understanding of users’ psychological demands.
* Learning the language program.
* To do some research (according to some questionnaires to collect users’ feedback and needs of the current living conditions). Interviews and methods, such as data collection. Do prototypes, then do evaluation and feedback again.
* Followed by a cycle process, until satisfied with the final product. This process can be described as an iteration form, which I learned from the foundation of interactive media module.
Postscript: This is a self-made video, which gave a basic show of the function and operation of my project. And here I want to give some THANKS to Sophia, Peng and Beata who gave me a favor to deal with my voice recording part^^ (The pity is that I don't know how to upload the video into the blog)
Postscript: For this part I have not yet got some great idea, but just think that people create development of technology is people like to make more convenient and better quality of life, and help people enhance the work efficiency, so hopefully it will bring some certain help to users, bring convenience to the user, giving people more fun in the life, making machine interactive is full of humanity, betting closer of the distance between human beings. (Many people consider, to a certain extent, the development of technology obstruct the communication between people.
Postscript: Two questions:
* Are there any existed limitations in my project? Or any suggestions for my project.
* About user group, as I mentioned before, there are so many, basically a stationary, so that there is no better target user for the project design to me, I just ask some comments and suggestions in this particular filed.

To be continue and everybody happy weekend!!