Presentation Part II: A week in review.

Last week everyone presented their current progress on their projects. Some teams had super impressive prototypes (looking at you Team Not-a-Robot) which made me feel that our team was super behind where we needed to be. On the flip side though some other teams seemed to be struggling a lot more than ours, so I guess that means we are right about where we need to be. Ken has been carrying the team so far with his work in unity getting the prototype up to a point where we could show both the functionality we want to implement and our progress with the Kinect system.

With Ken coding madly Shilpi, Aster and I worked on getting the actual presentation content and interaction plan nailed down. We were in a pretty good position having physically storyboarded our concept in for the first presentation and not changing our method. This left us more time to talk about how we had incorporated feedback from our initial prototyping into our design moving forward which I think was beneficial. Still determining exactly how to scope our success criteria was difficult. It was hard to know how optimistic to be given our current progress on the prototype and inexperience using unity. Being realistic yet challenging enough is always a struggle when working with group expectations.

Overall I think our presentation went well, despite some Kinect and PowerPoint hiccups. We were one of the few teams that actually touched on their background sources and really recapped our project. Also we used the full 10 minutes which has to be a good thing.

Our focus for this week is to continue progressing on our prototype and hopefully have it functioning to the point where we can start implementing the projector and seeing some meaningful interactions. Ken and I will be looking at the materials we need to get things up to scratch and make a fun trip to Bunnings. Additionally we will need to decide as a group how best we can communicate our concept in the explainer video.

Story Boarding Ahoy!