This week we were mostly working on our new idea we would pitch that would work with ABBs design sheet. I worked on the presentation with the rest of the team and had a slide on explaining one of the main User Interface components of the game/training tool.
Idea:
We had to quickly come up with some idea after getting feedback from the previous week and a design document to work around with ABB. Fortunately we were told that it was open to any ideas we could come up with and we were encouraged by our lecturers to "gameify" it as much as possible. ABB wanted to develop a training tool to be used with Augmented Reality. We thought up of ways to make this fun or more friendly in ways. The main ideas that were developed were:
- Using a clipboard for feedback
- Making it competitive with scoring systems
- Having some light humor with narrative
- Having a companion to help (named GUS)
I worked on how the clipboard would work well and why it would work well. Charlie gave a good animation and prototype/demonstration of GUS and Cormac was working on hacking his phone again to use AR for another demonstration.
Give game idea and who worked on what. Charlie on protoype of GUS and cormac on hacking his phone again.
Presentation:
The slide I was presenting for was our slide on our clipboard idea. This idea was based around the user holding a clipboard or blank flat surfaced plain object as an imaginary clipboard in their hands. Once that has a marker on it, we can use augmented reality to give it animations and display real time information. This would be extremely familiar to all engineers and so would not need to be explained much. It would also prove as a handy way to display all the info a user needs that they can view at any time.
One of our ideas, G.U.S. (Guided User Systems), was shown by an animation Charlie made. This was what I found to be one of the most interesting parts of our presentation as people both loved and hated it. Points made against it was what if it was like "Clippy" from Microsoft Word which was annoying to nearly everyone and became a nuisance until it was removed. This was something we had not thought of until the point was made.