Week #7

Last spurt at recruitment

Finalize and submit the formal research proposal

Test the test before the test

Thoughts

So at the end of this week we’ll be doing our first experiment.  It’s taking place in Trinity Bellwoods, a great park area in the west end of Toronto, near Ossington and Queen.  Our big challenge for this week is getting everyone “recruited,” and making sure we get most of the edge cases figured out.  Kerem’s been doing some great work on defining a safe and accessible place for us to hold the experiments, and we’re looking forward to this Friday.

If you haven’t already signed up as a tester, I’d suggest you head over here right about now, and sign up by filling in the survey.  We’ll get in touch with you ASAP and get your iPhone’s unique ID (UDID) from you, which will let you join on as a alpha tester!

Next up

After this week, we’ll be reviewing our findings from the experiment.  One of Andrew’s goals is to write some software in either Processing or Python to visualize the movements of the testers, seeing how people move in those spaces and what kind of commonalities might emerge in terms of movement, angle, etc.

We’re also going to be working with the visual designers at Normative Design, Ayla and Genco, to really start defining an aesthetic foundation for the application.  The work they’ve done so far is incredible and will be changing as we add more games.  None of us interns have a formal background in visual design, and all of us are excited to see creation and research process in that space.