Designing Continued

Design Stage;

So since last week I have heard from one of the Primary Schools and they have agreed to meet with me before letting me do the workshop all in the case of safety, the issue is due to it coming up to Decemeber the School are becoming very busy with aspects of their Christmas fair and Christmas Play, so I am going to have to wait until the new year.  I have been given a meeting on the 20th of January to go in and meet up with the head teacher and explain my project to them and also tell them what I plan to do in the workshop.

So sadly until I get the chance to do this my design process is going to slow down a bit since I am limited to what I can do since there are aspects of the application I am wanting to design with the children.  Although it hasn't stopped completely.

I have been working on some ideas that could workout well for this since, I am currently trying to design it as a group activity but still have the children interacting with the application themselfs.  So working through some different ideas on how I could go about this, on Idea is have a character that appears and speaks to the children on the screen and letting the teacher decide who gets to do the next part of the story.  The other way is by having a selection randomizer that where the teachers would put the names of the pupils into the application and it randomly selects who gets to do the next part, while making if fair that a child can not be chosen twice.

I also have decided that the application will have two or three challenges that the children can work through, if I have time I will try and create more books within the application so that there is more to do but my current goal is to have one working story book for the children to work through.

Designs start

Design Stage;

So it has been two weeks since Guru's day and the work on my application has been slow at best due to a couple of different factors such as dissertation for one thing, and also waiting to hear back from Primary Schools and Councils that I have emailed about conducting a workshop.

Although even with these issues I have managed to make some progress so that I wasn't going into the workshop empty handed.  What I managed to work on is some mock up flow charts on how the application is going to run as well as deciding what I am going to do with the children during the workshop.

Some of the factors I have decided on is that the layout of the story should be basic, but colourful and with mini animations to keep the children interested.  Also since it is a young age group I will be refraining from using difficult medical terms when speaking about the different colourblindnesses such as Protanopia, Deutanopia, Tritanopia and Mono-Chromacy.  These terms maybe a bit too difficult for children to understand so I will just be simplifing it to a sense protanopia will be called Red Colourblindness, Deutanopia will be Green Colourblindness and Mono-Chromacy will be True Colourblindness.  The reason for Mono-Chromacy being called True Colourblindness in this setting is because with Mono-Chromacy you are unable to see any colours at all making you truely colourblind.

For the case of the design I decided it might be fun to let the children design the characters that will be appearing in the story as well as what their job in the story might be.

Also since I do not know what program I will be using to create everything in yet I will also be learning how to code in Xcode and maybe even take a look at adobe edge animate and animate cc, to learn them for when I am ready to finish everything off.

flow chart and what happens next

Guru's Day

Research Stage;

So today was Guru's day and my boards were all finished the night before explaining the different parts that I wanted;

So for the first board which I showed my reseach so for the case of text it mentioned about the perentage of colourblindness and also how that you can go you entire life without even realising that you are colourblind.  It also displayed 4 different images showing how an image might appear to people with the different types of colourblindness.

The second board was basically talking about my target audience and it talked about how I am basing my application for children in primary school as a way to introduce them to colourblindness but at the same time possibly helping see if they are having any issues with colours themself.

My third and and final board was my technology and it talked about what I am going to be designing for.  At the moment I have alot of different types of technology I am concidering making this work for ranging from a tablet, to a laptop/desktop computer, to even possibly working on a smartboard which are usually seen within schools now adays.

After my pitch to the Guru's they told me that they intially liked my idea and they also gave me some tips and pointers of things I could try for instant doing a workshop with a primary school and introducing a thing known as co-design, by letting the children design some aspects of the story.  Also they mentioned that the sensor for picking up colours maybe too ambitous for the time frame I have set infront of me and mentioned that I should possibly look into a back up plan for instant just using swatches or a colour pallete.

Nomal vision

deutanopia

Protantopia

tritanopia