Tutorial Feedback & Project Update

In our tutorial yesterday with Roma, Camilla and I discussed our idea for our interactive kiosk. We got some useful feedback from our tutor group and have adjusted our idea slightly. We have decided to limit the number of phidgets and animations in our kiosk, by doing this we will be able to make a each animation more interactive and therefore make a more successful and appealing kiosk.

We are planning to use 3 or 4 phidgets in our interactive kiosk. A joystick which we will hopefully be able to make into a simple drawing tool for the user so they can create their own image over the animations they have activated using the other sensors. We are not sure how feasible this idea is and need to carry out further research to find out if it is possible and also how complex it would be to create. A vibration sensor will activate an animation on the screen which will vibrate and move around with more velocity the more the sensor is made to vibrate, again this is an idea that we need to look into further as we do not know if we have the knowledge in actionscript to make it happen. The third sensor will be a slider which when activated will change the background colour from light to dark.

When all the sensors are activated the user will have interesting visuals to view which they have helped to create by using the joystick to create their own image over the background shade they have chosen and the animation they have activated.

If all goes well and the kiosk works with these phidgets and effects we would like to add one last phidget. This would be a touch button which would take a snapshot of the image the user has created. When this kiosk is in place in an art gallery cafe or bar the user would be able to print this snapshot image to postcard or business card size. They would collect this card from the bar for a small fee. On one side of the card would be the image and on the other would be some basic information for the gallery such as gallery name, address, phone number and website address. This would work well as advertising for the gallery and with a small charge for the printoff the gallery can also make a small profit.