Developing an idea for interaction work

Idea generation

                Matt, Connor, Danny

Our group came up with a few ideas in the short time we were given to brainstorm in groups however having the extra time on our own let us come to the group a lot more informed than what we would have been other than just been thrown into a group.

The first

The idea that came to mind first was a completely interactive game style idea where you match sentence about each animal to each other this however proved to be a very weak idea due to it being done a lot while we were young and we felt it was an ineffective way of learning or keeping young people interested.

This idea however will prove to still be useful in the sense that it could be used as an end task to the interactive idea we create as the final project if we choose too.

The Second

Was to have a tank made of fully animated fish that would swim around aimlessly until hovered over then the fish would pause and come up with a bubble with information about the fish but also maybe parts of the speech the woman gave us about each fish such as the turtles personality and background. General information such as how the turtle has health issues and things like that to keep the audience engaged and hopefully attract the into the aquarium to learn more about the background stories of the animals

This idea was our strongest idea and we all agreed that we could use it and make a very successful animation. This would have been interesting piece of work to fit our brief affectively. However on trying to refine our idea we starting to completely develop a new idea and have decided to create the new idea.

The Third and Final Idea

The idea was to create and panorama on the aquarium therefore creating a feeling that you are actually in the aquarium. We decided use arrows based on the Google map style of interface that you could fully interactive with such as turn in view looking up and down.  When you click on the arrow it will lead you towards the tank. However we have decided that it will just take you straight to the tank because we didn’t want to be able to stop and look at other tanks therefore creating a lack of reason to actually go to the aquarium. Once you pick the tank you would like to see, the view of the tank would be a video (hopefully) and we will work over the video to insure we can set up the bubbles for charismatic fish to explain what they are and things about them.

Overall this idea seemed the strongest playing on our strengths in the group such as we knew we would struggle to create a flash dominated project because we don’t have very good flash skills. Therefore finding an idea that is both engaging and interactively complex was very useful for our group.


Aquarium presentation


Me and my group had a presentation( 16th march), where all groups in the class had to present their current ideas and plan to a member of the awauarium. Out of six groups, the first three stayed to present their work, while two other groups watched. While the last three groups wondered the aquarium while the other three presented.
My group present our current idea to the staff member. She seemed pleased with our idea and gave us what I consider positive feedback, she encouraged us to return to the aquarium and ask members of staff about the fish and their personality's for our idea of giving the fishes names and personality 's. She also encouraged us to research local fish which could be used for the Atlantic tank
Overall i feel the presentation went confidently well.