What, Where and When?

Thursday July 6 2006
The first day we discussed our goals with this project. At first we talked about what ideas we had. Sander had an idea about a room with a artificial shadow that we all liked. We started to work with that idea until Konrad started asking us questions. Thanks to his questions we realised that we had started with the technical side and had no real meaning with the project. After a brainstorming session we decided that we wanted to work with self expression. We were creating many ideas but after a discusion with Aukje we went back to Sanders idea and changed our thinking from self expression to connecting people. Quickly we realised that we should use our concept in the public where people are waiting, to make the place more interesting and because people there have the time to make a connection.

We presented the idea and the respons were good. Oguzhan told us to think about a notification system.

Friday July 7 2006
We continued to work with the idea and forming it into a concept. In a brainstorm session we decided to keep the system simple and only using morphing shadows and glowing. The idea were that peoples shadows would try to connect and morph into one oil like substans, the glow was for indicating a connection and would grow stronger if the persons stayed together for longer. We started to work on a web site, moodboard, storyboard and diffrent scenarios. Oguzhans wish for a notificartion system was ringing in our ears but we had no ideas.

Sunday July 9 2006
Our day began with us reading each others scenarios. They were all similar except from the location, we all used a train station except from Cristoph who used a airport. We had a discusion about this and we argued that we should stick to the train station because there is less people and less to do. After that we all went outside to brainstorm about the notification system. Because we wanted to use it in public areas and people who does not want to be a part of this experience have to be able to be in the area the notification could not be disturbing, that ruled out lights and and noice. Cristoph had an idea about using vibrations but finally we all agreed not to use a notification system. There are two reasons for not using a notification system. First it is impossible to make a notification that does not bother people who does not want to be a part of the experience. Second we want to surprise the user and it is unlikely to stand there for ten minutes without seeing other shadows merging and glowing. The work from Friday was continued.

Monday July 10 2006
The day started with us going through the critic we got yesterday. While Sanders started working with a panorama over Utrech Central the rest of the group started to brainstorm about the critic. As for the notification Cristoph had a idea for a silent notification systerm(SNS). Using pointed microphones and speakers we could invert the sound from the surrondings and play it for the person so that it would seem that the sound was gone. We thought about it but found some problems. People can get scared if we take away their hearing and for people with bad eyesight or blind people it could be really dangerous. That gave us an idea of including blind people in the project but after some discusion we concluded that since our whole system is build on visuals it could not be included in a nice way. As for the notification system we stick to that if it is not a great idea we wont use it. We also talked about different persons and how they would react to Fluid. We talked about people we know like our parents and grandparents. We also discused different groups of people like youngsters, old people and different work categories. Our beliefs is that no one will be offended by the system and that young people will be more open to it then older even thought they can enjoy it. Later that day we went to two train stations in Istanbul to analys peoples behaviour.

Tuesday July 11 2006
Last day on earth! Today is the day everything needs to be done. We are all working on the webpage, a panorama and a improved storyboard. We had another brainstorming session about the notification system. We concluded that we can not really say anything about the different systems because we have not had the time to make a study on them, everything we say is based on our on opinions and experiences. Therefor we will include them all here on the page but only use one in the concept.

The clock is ticking!