scruffy days

Guest Critics: Tom Igoe, Joey Stein and Molly Lenore of Moey Inc.

• Don’t worry about categorizing it as a product, installation, etc. Some things you can only learn/start to figure out by going through that process.
• Brought up feedback from Sonali’s presentation - student said they needed a check system before leaving the house. What don’t you forget before you leave the house? Your pants
• We’ve humanized our community of devices. How/Why do we map these humanistic qualities with the digital output we’ve chosen (LEDs)?
• Aren’t we creating another dependency to something external?
• What about if/when circuit breaks? What does that imply about our security and reliance on technology to communicate the presence/absence of physical devices and their conversation?
• Modularity was brought up - what do you wear in the summer?
• Rather than having cumbersome physical snap system, could the Bluetooth be utilized to communicate presence/absence? Could be described in our ideal scenario since obviously these modules don’t support this feature, but would be interesting to note as an option - short-range modems.
• Would be cool to have a timestamp feature. If your device was removed/lost, a timestamp would be logged, and you could refer to this and backtrack & retrace your steps
• Describe what you would ideally like your jacket/project to accomplish
• Presentation documentation - start from beginning. How your concept began, evolved, background research, process, technical implementation, similar projects/inspiration

Use these as guidelines to prepare final presentation, be able to respond to questions or lay out why we chose not to go certain route(s). This way, we can hopefully drive a more interesting discussion rather than explaining why it isn’t this or that or why you can’t wear it in the summer, but rather address the issues we’re talking about and what we found through our process.

Pollie and I discussed the feedback I received today during my final presentation in PComp. We realized the need to convey the user scenario to better explain what this project is about. The 3 of us each bring a slightly different perspective to this project, so it would be a good idea for us to layout our personal user scenarios/thoughts and organize these into a cohesive presentation.

• What is our interpretation of this project?
  (as an individual project - Sonali, I know you have a different description in terms of thesis)
• What issues have we addressed/not addressed?
• How do we envision the project? By this I mean, what is our ideal for the jacket & functionality? without thinking about tech difficulties, timeframe, etc.