Exhibition Day

Exhibition Day itself was great, while some of our team members were stressing out and looking to make final changes to the code I was feeling good. Potentially due to the lack of sleep and large amounts of caffeine I had consumed, but once our blackout curtains were up I was itching to show our project to people and see what all the other groups had done. We were one of the lucky groups that got marked early in the day so the pressure was off for most of the exhibition and we could just enjoy it.

Our installation itself worked about as well as we could have hoped. The hand tracking was not perfect and the Leap motion would often drop out, but despite that the marking team had a flawless interaction during the marking and people seemed to genuinely enjoy our concept. I was surprised by the amount of time people were spending engaging with our installation given that the interaction was a little clunky and our intractable game objects could be hard to hit. Maybe it was because of the large amounts of sweets we had at our table with gummy bears, Cadbury favourites, and Reese's pieces (The king of chocolates) we were clearly a destination with other teams (sign play) sending people our way to preserve their own meager candy stashes.

On a more seriously note I was really happy with the level of interest and engagement people came away with after playing with our exhibit. Throughout the semester I always felt that we had a strong concept and an interesting proposition, so it was nice to hear people commenting on that. It really allowed people an imagine what the future could hold type moment, where the actual installation and its functionality was less important than the interaction itself and what interactive body projection could become as a story telling method. While I think our concept may have been one of the best my choice for best installation would have to go to Taleweavers that Dome set up along with the switches and levers they created really worked a charm.

Then it was time to share a drink with friends and pack everything down like it never happened. It was great to see everyone working together and people staying around to socialise. The after drinks down at the Charming Squire was a nice way to get to know everyone that we had been reporting back to every Friday for the last 10 or so weeks. With that said this will be the end of my blog for this semester Lena can sit atop the iron blog throne with a mighty 25 posts. Big shout out to the say hello team for turning blogging into a competition and keeping everyone on track.