Week 12 – Team Everything is fine

Evaluation methodology As part of our last few weeks before the Sk8 pilot event we were tasked with conducting in class user testing / evaluation amongst our peers. In preparation for the testing I devised a user evaluation plan with the following goals in mind: Get unbiased feedback regarding the ease of use / interpretation…

Week 11 – Everything is fine

This week was intense. With our team members all having day jobs, we had to meet at night to progress the project to be ready for test day on Saturday. We broke the project into three parts to split up the tasks for each member to be able to work individually and then bring it…

Everything is Fine – Week 10 Blog

This past week was further spent on project logistics leading up to the SK.8 event. There was no Saturday class this week. Friday’s morning class essentially dealt with a Rhino crash course, ostensibly to prepare us for 3D printing. In the afternoon, we had a checklist session for our project, where a tutor marked us…

Week 9 – Team Everything is fine

Week 9 – Installation requirements Following our progress during the semester break we had a few installation spots worth considering with noticeable perks and draw backs. To summarize the goals for the installation of our concept, we require: An unobstructed, elevated vantage point for the webcam to view skaters. Fairly even terrain for our observers…

Everything is Fine | Week 8 – In progress presentations

This week, we conducted our in class progress presentations. These presentations were essentially to showcase our progress with the ideation by narrowing down on a concept idea, identifying constraints and other limitations, and our suggestions on how to work around them. The actual presentation did not take too long to make, as our group members…

Week break – Everything is fine

After the presentation last week, we got feedback from the tutors. From that there were some questions we needed to answer to move forward with our project. This week we also visited the site to test out the placement of our installations including the map and camera placement The dashboard/map area  – where, what will…

Team: Everything is Fine – Week 7

After receiving feedback from our report, we also discussed our concepts with the tutors. Karen introduced us to max 7 which we could use for our project as it uses sound. Last week was all about refining our concept a bit further by first exploring the tech options and seeing which implementation was most suitable….

Week 6 – Team Everything is Fine

Progress and development blog Moving forward with our concepts we’re now diving in to a more detailed look at our music maker concept and the considerations surrounding it. Feedback from tutors The original scope of this design could take place across the entire skatepark or be scaled down to an isolated section. Thanks to the…

Assignment 1

  This Friday, our group burned the proverbial midnight oil working on getting the assignments in on time. All three of us work close to full time during the week, and unexpected work delays prevented us from hitting some of the planned deadlines in the group charter. The video portrait was done by Shane using…

Blog week 4 – Sydenham Skatepark visit

Team 6 – Everything is Fine During our visit to the Sydenham skatepark our team split up to observe multiple aspects of the skatepark. We then had a retrospective to pull together the various insights and observations learned from the visit. We were able to share a multitude of insights derived from mapping the space,…