Jonathan MarzetteMichael SelbyVISC 404The University of Kansas

Project Sheet

DATA: the numbers and units that give life to a system, a body of facts or information

PLATFORM: the system/grid that shapes the data and gives it structure and meaning

MAPPING: where the platform and data combine to take shape visually

SURFACE: the physical surface that the user interacts with

INTERACTION: the manner in which a user can have an experience of understanding

EMERGENCE: What the user gains from the experience

Project Sheet

PLATFORM EXAMPLES:

“Snowman Party”

Windows 7

Snow Leopard

a venue that hosts shows

Any video game console

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Homework

Homework

Homework

Development

10:16 am

Whatare youeating?

Monday, November 5th

Breakfast

Lunch

Snac

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Dinner

10:17 am

Whatfoodgroup?

Monday, November 5th

Grains

Vegetables Frui

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Meats

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Development

- low in fruits- too many vegetables- eat a bigger breakfast

- try fruit salad for breakfast

Suggestions

10:17 amMonday, November 5th

3:34 pm

From To

Here’syourdiet

Main Menu

Sunday, October 29th

Breakfast

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Development

Refinement

Refinement

How can you explain this to someone clearly?- The easiest way to show a potential user how to use this platform would be to a show an ex-ample video of someone using the Pyramid.

How does someone interact with this platform?- A user would interact this platform by using the interactive touch screen on the device while it was magnetized to their refridgerator and the Pyramid woud do the rest of the calculations.

What could stem from this knowledge?- The goal of the Pyramid is to simply inform people of their dietary habits they might not notice, improve diets that might be suffering either as a group of people or a single person.

Is this interaction simple and intuitive?- With the way this was designed, the interaction portion is very simple to grasp

Refinement

The pyramid is an interactive interface that displays the user’s dietary habits, nutritious health and sug-gets different possibilites for an improved diet after imputing and recording your meals that you’ve eat-en from the refridgerator.

Finals

The Pyramid

Data - Food eaten from the fridgePlatform - The PyramidMapping - Color cordinated barsSurface - ScreenIntereaction - Touch / Viewing Short description -The Pyamid is an in-teractive interface that, after inputing your recent food intake, displays your di-etary habits.

Long description - The Pyamid is an interactive interface that displays the user’s dietary habits, nutritious health, and suggests different possibilities for an improved diet after imputing and record-ing the meals hat you have eaten from

the refrigerator over a given amount of time.

Audience - Geared toward multiple au-diences for anyone who could use a fridge in a home; from families that are watching their food intake, one single person who cares about their diet and nutrition, or a group of roommates who have one for the hell of it.

Finals

Finals

10:17 am

LoginMonday, November 5th

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Quinn

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Where the user would input who they were and access they’re own log of their past meals.

Title Screen

Finals

Whatare youeating?

Breakfast

Lunch

Sna

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Dinner

This is where the specific time and “amount” of food proportions would be calculated at.

W.A.Y.E?

Finals

Whatfoodgroups?

The data entered from each different food group, combined with the amount and the time of day will give the Pyaramid ample amount of informatino in which to display your dietary habits.

What food groups?

Finals

97%

46%

Clock - the average time that meals are eaten

Waves- the amount each food group is eaten organized by each represented color of the food group

Heart - how close you are to an ideal diet in correspondence with how your diet works

Scale - your ideal weight in response to your dietand how close you are to it.

Home - Back to the main page.

Stats page

Reflection

As with most other projects we’ve done this semester, this has defi-nitely been a learning experience and a venture into new territory. The notably new things that I attempted this time were the way of thinking following a new road to problem solving and also including anything shot with a camera in anything I’ve ever done.

Going through the different stages of interactive design and working from the concept on was definitely new. Most of the time, a normal step to take would be to think would I want to make an app or device out of and work out the concept around that and go from there. But this, using a creative, free way of picking seemingly unconncected things really brought out some grand ideas. After landing on what I did, going through that connecting the dots to make this work was a learn-ing experience.

Refining some of the graphic elements was difficult but came together in the end. The ending video required some technical thinking that I hadn’t done so conquering that was something that I’m glad I experi-enced for sure. Overall, I am happy with what I was able to accomplish with all the road blocks that faced me in the making of this project.