Week 3

Week 3
03/07/2013
As usual after class, i gather my group at my place to have a meeting. The reason that i like to gather every member to gather at my place to meeting is to let everybody to participate in this project and i don't want any miscommunication during the meeting. Base on my experience in my diploma year, when we use social network to meeting there always some miscommunication that will happen.

So during the meeting, we discuss what are we going to propose in our proposal so that we can get some comment from our lecturer for the next meeting. Although there are a lot information gather but our group had no idea what is the best installation art that we can produce.

Everyone of group mates give some ideas, but end up something either not relevant or is about our capability. During the meeting, i propose my idea on WWF. I suggested that we can try focus on this topic and find out what are problem that WWF are trying to solve and what the problem they are facing so base on the topic we can think out of some interest installation and all group mates agree on it.

04/07/2013 - 08/07/2013
After knowing which and where to focus, our group concentrate on the main topic and find out what had Malaysia WWF are doing recently and what are the project and problem they are facing. And base on the event they organise, are the anything that we can use it to upgrade or we can create an interactive installation to help them. After gather all the information, we share it online to other group mates so they can have a view before the next meeting.

09/072013
As usual after class, we gather and start our meeting on the projection. We continue with where we ended last week. Other group member also share out what they find and their rough idea.

I propose my idea as a arcade station for people to play. But the arcade station is actually a machine for people to participate of donating money and get the information of WWF. That is my rough idea after doing the research. I suggest we can do something for use to control an animation and by control some source of console, the user will feel participant and will feel more excited while interact with the installation.

At first , some of the group mates don't really agree on the idea but after some explanation and the execution. Our group agree on the idea and start give suggestion and idea to make the idea even stronger and interesting.

11/07/2013 - 16/07/2013
During the week, our group came out with different idea for our interactive installation project.  I came out with the idea that we can use the idea of arcade to create a donation machine. And during the game, user can get information like kinds of endanger animal and what are the course and how to prevent to become worse and our members were happy with the idea.

Our group propose fews method to become the console for the installation like car, walking and even controller. But if we do all this method our programming part may don't have the capability of finish the programming and animation part. So Leon give a very good idea of using river, because we can use the flow of river to force the user on going one path. And i give the idea of using kayak.

After doing discussion and consideration, we planned to create something trigger by kayak.
As a leader we need to understand what are thing that we need to be concern of so we come out a list of thing that we may need to double check to confirm the project is possible.

For Design,
- We need to know how to make progressing front movement animation.
For Interaction,
- We planned that the users can stop at some point and interact with the installation by user kinect or infrared.
For Logistic
- We need to know where and how to hide the camera and wires.
For Coding
- We need to find the coding and solution for kayak to move forward and if possible, left and right.
For Content,
- We need more information about the endangered animal species in Malaysia and what the causes.

For the boat, we planned to use and get a set of arduino and we need to find out how to trigger the controller, and what sensor should we use:
- flex sensor
- magnet sensor
And as logistic leader i need find out where to get the arduino set.

We start to do research on environmental design and installation.We planned another back up plan which is using swan boat instead of kayak.

The content and artstyle of our installation will be currently setted as :
- animal silhouette made from rubbish
- animals, river and forest.

I start to layout some idea to have some rough idea how the placement and around what size can we use for the installation. And this is what i done and share to my groupmate for discussion.

I created a mini kayak that can fit a person to sit and control the pedal to control the animation. But after some discussion with member they kind of happy with the layout and wanted to place in some design around the boat to make feel more like forest.  But as we further discuss, we realised that the seat and the layout may make the user uncomfortable so i suggest that instead of using kayak we can use wooden boat. Then i straight away sketch out the boat.

16/07/2013 

I spend 3 hours try to roughly digitalise and create a rough measurement floorplan of boat so that i can show to the lecturer during the next consultation. I did it by use illustrator.