Day 12: (Thu Oct 2, Week 6) Medium-Fidelity Refinement

Notes for 2025-10-02.

Assignments

Due Tue Oct 7: Medium-Fidelity Prototype Process: Part 2. Please continue to place documentation in Assignment 6 Shared Folder, revising existing results as needed.

Administrative

Medium-term objectives:

  • week 6: refine and test medium-fidelity implementation

  • week 7: field trials to evaluate concept; detailed requirements for full design

Agenda

  1. Opening comments.

  2. Common questions:

    • What is the core emotional narrative of the interaction?

    • What aspects of your prototype are not working?

    • What elements can you drop or revise?

    • How are you going to test with sufficient discipline to answer all the design questions?

  3. Implementation questions:

    • Would your idea work based on an AI Makerspace platform?

    • Would your idea work based on a low-cost commercial platform?

  4. Individual group meetings:

    • 12:15-12:30: “Falling Machine”

    • 12:30-12:45: “Phone Bed”

    • 12:45-1:00: “Shadow Touch”

    • 1:10-1:15: “Let’s Play a Game”

    • 1:15-1:50: additional discussion, as needed