Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Thursday
Finishing the project.
Yesterday we did the last changes in the concept, we made it more intuitive. After speaking to the teachers we decided that it would be better if the map can figure things out by it self. You should not need to tell the map everything you want and everything you like, based on the information it has it should come up with ideas that will suit you. If you go to a lot of fancy expensive restaurants it will understand that you probably is rich and than give you directions to other expensive things to do in town. If you visit an art museum it might suggest places to buy art.
We have split up the work, Anna has been focusing on the poster and the interface, Cyrille on the design of the interface andt making the homepage, and I on the texts for the homepage, do the blogging, writing the personas and scenarios for using the product. We continued with the same things today, and we are also preparing the presentation for tomorrow.
We feel confident that we will finish on time.
Yesterday we did the last changes in the concept, we made it more intuitive. After speaking to the teachers we decided that it would be better if the map can figure things out by it self. You should not need to tell the map everything you want and everything you like, based on the information it has it should come up with ideas that will suit you. If you go to a lot of fancy expensive restaurants it will understand that you probably is rich and than give you directions to other expensive things to do in town. If you visit an art museum it might suggest places to buy art.
We have split up the work, Anna has been focusing on the poster and the interface, Cyrille on the design of the interface andt making the homepage, and I on the texts for the homepage, do the blogging, writing the personas and scenarios for using the product. We continued with the same things today, and we are also preparing the presentation for tomorrow.
We feel confident that we will finish on time.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Map v.2
We changed a couple of things today. This is what we came upt with after the critique:
The Map v.2
While walking in your town or sightseeing in another one you can use this interactive application to help you explore the city in a new way. It’s a map on e-paper that you can keep in your pocket and fold out when you need it. It uses GPS and a touch screen. It will also be connected to a social community (eg. facebook).
Features
• Creating a route that is based on where other people have been. The more people that have went on a route the more colorful it will appear on the map.
o Friends. You can see which of you friends have been there before and where they went.
o Groups. You can join a group with a certain interest to see what they chose to do.
• Interface. When you open the map it will only show you a map and where you are. All the menus are going to be hidden and by touching the screen you will be able to see them. By dubble clicking you can get more information.
• (Time. You will be able to look at your history, where you went 24 hours ago for example.)
• (On the move. The program knows which speed you are travelling and where you are so it will always know if you’re by foot, car, train etc.)
• (Food. It might be useful if the map know the time and can give you examples of a close by restaurant during lunch and dinner time.)
The Map v.2
While walking in your town or sightseeing in another one you can use this interactive application to help you explore the city in a new way. It’s a map on e-paper that you can keep in your pocket and fold out when you need it. It uses GPS and a touch screen. It will also be connected to a social community (eg. facebook).
Features
• Creating a route that is based on where other people have been. The more people that have went on a route the more colorful it will appear on the map.
o Friends. You can see which of you friends have been there before and where they went.
o Groups. You can join a group with a certain interest to see what they chose to do.
• Interface. When you open the map it will only show you a map and where you are. All the menus are going to be hidden and by touching the screen you will be able to see them. By dubble clicking you can get more information.
• (Time. You will be able to look at your history, where you went 24 hours ago for example.)
• (On the move. The program knows which speed you are travelling and where you are so it will always know if you’re by foot, car, train etc.)
• (Food. It might be useful if the map know the time and can give you examples of a close by restaurant during lunch and dinner time.)
first scetches for our project
this is just a first visualisation of how our product, which could be an application for an GPS, could look like. At the time its more like an abstract image:)
Documentation
This is the thoughts from yesterday, we have changed a lot since then but this is the way that the project has been developing:
The Map
While walking in your town or sightseeing in another one you can use this interactive application to help you explore the city in a new way. You can use it in a device that is connected to the internet, has GPS and a touch screen. Everything is also connected to a website so you can also reach it from a computer. It will be open source and give people the opportunity to create their own plug-ins.
Features
• Creating a route that is made only for you. Type in things you like and then the software remembers that. The next time it will keep the stuff that you liked and ban things you don’t like so it will get smarter over time.
o The software can filter things. Eg if you don’t have much money it will only show you things that you can afford. You can see how many people live in a special area or how polluted it is.
o You can zoom in to see a more detailed map.
o Layers.
o Where a lot of routs cross it will be a pulsing dot on the map.
• Showing emotions. Everywhere you are you have the ability to express your emotions in words and colors. If you eg. are visiting a mosque you might feel glad, calm or uncomfortable. You push the icon for that feeling, in that way you can watch a map over a city and see how people feel about different places. It’s all in real time so it will always be up to date. If you also add the question, Why?, you can dig deeper and explore why people are feeling that way.
• Implementing music. If you use your device also as an mp3-player you will be able to listen to the same music as other people. You can do this in many different ways. One way is to let other people know what you are listening to (Like MSN). Since you use GPS other people in that area are able to know what music is popular there. You can also go out for a walk and “save” the music and then give it to a friend and then that person can have a similar experience as you. You can also “leave” (tag) a song to a place so other people can listen to it.
o Listening to sounds in that area. Eg. while looking at a church in the map you can make it play that sound, like a prayer sound.
• Pictures. You will be able to look at (and upload) pictures of places.
• Icons. The icons will be nice animations witch make the map come alive. Restaurants may eg. be visualized as smoke.
• The map is a beautiful painting. The map will look like a painting that you can print if you want to.
The Map
While walking in your town or sightseeing in another one you can use this interactive application to help you explore the city in a new way. You can use it in a device that is connected to the internet, has GPS and a touch screen. Everything is also connected to a website so you can also reach it from a computer. It will be open source and give people the opportunity to create their own plug-ins.
Features
• Creating a route that is made only for you. Type in things you like and then the software remembers that. The next time it will keep the stuff that you liked and ban things you don’t like so it will get smarter over time.
o The software can filter things. Eg if you don’t have much money it will only show you things that you can afford. You can see how many people live in a special area or how polluted it is.
o You can zoom in to see a more detailed map.
o Layers.
o Where a lot of routs cross it will be a pulsing dot on the map.
• Showing emotions. Everywhere you are you have the ability to express your emotions in words and colors. If you eg. are visiting a mosque you might feel glad, calm or uncomfortable. You push the icon for that feeling, in that way you can watch a map over a city and see how people feel about different places. It’s all in real time so it will always be up to date. If you also add the question, Why?, you can dig deeper and explore why people are feeling that way.
• Implementing music. If you use your device also as an mp3-player you will be able to listen to the same music as other people. You can do this in many different ways. One way is to let other people know what you are listening to (Like MSN). Since you use GPS other people in that area are able to know what music is popular there. You can also go out for a walk and “save” the music and then give it to a friend and then that person can have a similar experience as you. You can also “leave” (tag) a song to a place so other people can listen to it.
o Listening to sounds in that area. Eg. while looking at a church in the map you can make it play that sound, like a prayer sound.
• Pictures. You will be able to look at (and upload) pictures of places.
• Icons. The icons will be nice animations witch make the map come alive. Restaurants may eg. be visualized as smoke.
• The map is a beautiful painting. The map will look like a painting that you can print if you want to.
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