17 Jul 2009 FRI – Interface and remaining experiments

Today we had a meeting in the afternoon to discuss the design interface and remaining experiments. We made a list of what we want to have in the 5 different interface screens we are envisioning: campus, basement, ground floor, 1st floor and 2nd floor. Each of these will have 3 layers: flow, wavelength and people.

Marcos presented illustrator mockups for the idea of incorporating 3D into the interface while still having the plan of each interface underneath, by using axonometric perspective and icons for each of the 3 layers. The "fake" 3D wireframe interface allows for easy understanding of the building for a layperson while still allowing the easy positioning of elements onto the interface by using x and y coordinates. We agreed on adopting this as the overall design structure. Killian reminded us that we need to incorporate the color blue into design, as this has been assigned as the colour of our group by the design team, and also that the CUBE logo will be positioned outside the 960x600 canvas. Binbin presented concepts for the expandable information panels and Dara presented concepts for the layer icons. We need to do some more work on these and decide on how the expandable panels will incorporate different media and different sizes.

We also discussed further experiments. Binbin is drafting a list of what we want to incorporate in each layer across the 5 interfaces so we can plan another experiment session on Tuesday evening.

Plan for this week is to start protoyping interface, carry out last experiments and organise data collected.

Marcos.