florry

i’ve just survived three days without internet, amazing,

Anyway, i have many ideas, and to make up for all the days i havent blogged this week, this will be an extra long entry, so have fun reading.

ok

first idea, was the hologram acts as a personal assistant, so it would alert you when you had an SMS, appointment, voicemail, email, weather updates, news updates, etc. The usergroup was hard to think of because so many people would find this useful. But i managed to narrow it down to people who were extremely busy and could not afford a secretary or a personal assistant.

second idea, was that the hologram acts as a virtual friend for lonley or very stressed out people ( thats mainly everyone in sydney). this friend ( this applies to all ideas) would have a personality and voice which the user programmed it to have when the user first purchased it.  However, the problem with this idea was that people who are lonley or stressed out may not want to talk to a machine, so i kind of threw that idea out of the window.

third idea, given to kristina and the idea i like the most is that the hologram acts as a SMS/ecard. Instead of sending someone and SMS or an ecard on a special accasion ( ie, brithday, christmas etc) you send a hologram. Ok so its kristina’s birthday, and i want to send her hologram person which pops out of her screen and is holding a present and says ” happy birthday kristina” how to make this hologram. well the iphone would have a program called iholo ( so original..i know) this prgram you select your personalised hologram ( the one you program when you first get your iphone) and then you select either the default accessories such as a birhtday cake or a present or you can download the different accessories online or you could program the the accessories yourself. so why would this application be used for the iphone? An iphone is something the user would carry around with them all the time. So if someone wantd you to open the hologram SMS straight away, you would be able to. With an ecard, you would have to have access to a laptop or a computer which was connected to the internet.

fourth idea, the hologram acts as a diary. The main user group would be people who have the habbit of using a diary or an organiser. Or for people who would like to start using a diary but they just cannot be bothered to insert the the appointments in all the time. So how does this work? Everytime the user gets an appointment or s special date to remember, instead of writing it down in a diary it would tell the hologram and the hologram would be able to “write it down” and place it in “its diary” . So when the date comes, a day or two days before the actaul date the hologram would alert the user by popping out and tell them they have to do this at this time. This is very similar to personal assistant idea but it wont alert you when you get SMS or voicemail. In addition, the hologram can also be a “things to do ” list, you tell them what you need to do the coming days the night before you go to bed. Then in the morning it will remind you that things need to be done.

ok they are the ideas so far. I like number three and four the best because i am able to find a user group for them

anyway, talk soon

ok i think i better edit this entry, since it was irrelevent.

OK..here we go

the user group for my iphone application.

I’ve changed my idea so that the phone acts as something that you want to talk to when you want. So my initial idea that it pops out whenever you get a SMS or email is in the trash. The new idea is that it will tell you that you have a new sms, but it won’t pop out of the screen. It will remain in the screen and then you press this button and it will appear before your eyes. Further more, the new idea has changed that when you feel like a talk, you can ask him to come out and have a little chat with you.

The usr group I think would fit into with people who have an extremely stressful, busy and full on lifestyle. For example, people who constantly at the office working overtime, students who are stressing over assingments or exams and CEO or executives of a company. So these interface would act as a virtual friend. Sort of like a pet, but it can talk to you.

The only different with this new idea and the older idea is that the new idea will allow you to control when you want this person to have contact with you. So it wont be like clippy from word which is always in the way and asking you lame questions. 

So I’ll give you an scenario:

Jason is working at his office and he has twenty more papers to sign. He has a flight to London the next morning at 8am and he still has to go to and pack his luggage. He is getting very stressed because it is currently 10pm and he has not evn started with reading the papers he needs to sign. Without his signature, the company can not put forward the process and hence would lose millions. So he needs a break, but he doesn’t feel like a sleep or eating something. He wants something which would keep him entertained but on task. So he takes out his iphone, turns the projetor on and he starts having a conversation with it. Because Jason programmed his character to be a certain personality, it will not act to be annoying and give Jason more stress.  So while he is reading and doing his work. Jason will sometimes take a break and have a quick chat with the hologram. This hologram can tell jokes, funny stories and simply things which will keep Jason calm and peaceful.

I wanted my application to be something which was useful in ways to do things faster and more convinient, but I also wanted it to have a certain impact on the user itself.  Life is becoming stressful, and it will be even more stressful in the coming years. I want the iphone application to be something other than real humans which users can turn to. The user group I have chosen for this application don’t always have loved ones around them, so sometimes a virtual friend will help.

It’s been forever since i last left a blog here. BUT! I’m still alive.

Rob’s lecture was about interface agents, AND my iphone idea is about making that new interface. But mines not simple, it will be hard.

I though at about the downfalls of my idea:

-if John (the hologram) keeps popping up, keeps downloading emails, it will use alot of battery and memory.

-will John be helpful? He will alert you everytime there is a new email, however, he wont jump out of the screen suddenly. He will most likely give you a sign for example a vibration alert. I’m scared that after time, John will be annoying instead of helpful. I don’t want this interface to end up like clippy from microsoft word (everyone hates it!)

because of the hologram idea, the iphone will have a lid ( like plastic cover) which will do both things:

1. provide the reflection when the projector is shining through so that you will see a 3D character

2. protect the touch screen so it won’t get scrathces when it is your pockets or hand bags with sharp objects.

So because it has this lid, do you think that the look of the phone is going backwards and becoming less stylish because have a see though lid kind of looks-dodgy, but pratical.

I think the current iphone is really good, VERY good idea because its something so new. But really, its nothing that exciting. It’s not a very practical thing.

There is a different i think (especially now) with buying something becase you want it, or buying it because it looks so cool. There are SO many things on the market which look so high tech and would make you look so pro, but they aren’t really that useful. Even mobile phones today, all you really do is SMS and call people. Even with video calling, not many use it because its simply too expensive.

well, I must continue with my deco1005 assignment, just like everyone else. I think that why everyone has disappeared from the non stop blogging phase!

:) talk soon

HELLLLOOOOO!!!!

How is everyone?? How was your weekend? I hope it was good. I mean three days of Florence not updating her blog ( it was a challenge, I must admit!)

Anyway, I’m really happy!!! Well, I saw a dance performance, it was amazing, especially the popping part, oh my, back to the main point of this blog!

Ok, I think I will stick to the idea of my hologram. But it will be more a projector light rebounding a wall ( I’ll think of where the wall will be later) and the reflection from the wall gives you a three dimensional view of your personalised person. This person, you can program to your suited personality ( I think we all know what my person will be like).

You may all be asking, what is the point in having this person besides having alerts for voicemail, emal, SMS etc.

I can say, I have a very good justification. If you are living alone ( ie. me) you kind of feel lonley most of the time, so this person can keep you entertained, talk to you, play games with you. On top of that, this personcan interact well with other. For example, if I wanted to talk to Suna, but Suna was busy, the person on my Iphone ( let’s call that, John) would pop out of Suna’s screen and ask if she wanted to talk to me, and then Suna’s would say yes or no and then John would report back to me.

So that’s all for now!

Talk soon

check this out guys: 

My idea is possible!! I’m so happy!

Hello all! I’m in extremely good mood at the moment, because, I GOT A JOB!!!

Ok to the point: Ali gave me an improvment to my 3D hologram idea. I know that the idea of the person popping out of your screen is sort of like in the next era idea, so he gave me the idea that the Iphone acts as a projector. There would be this button, or wheel that I turn on, and it shines this light out which is reflected on some kind of background and there you have your new best friend talking to you about all this stuff you signed up for! But, I’m not that happy with it still, but its a major improvment and a good develpment into my idea of the hologram. I think I really need to do some research, I know I’ve said that like in evvvvery post, and this time, I mean it!

 This is a good website to checkout about AI, its mainly talking about agents working as personal asistants…

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/825/05/html/chap3.htm

As Rob says, “I’m a natural blogger”

it comes from the skill that I can talk so much..:)

I wonder if we get marked deducted that we blogged too much?

Ok, my initial idea that there would be a hologram pop out of your screen was abit unrealistic. Let’s say that the idea of the persons head that pops out of the screen ( like those in Star Wars) is out. I wonder if having a 3D person or person’s head in your Iphone screen will be simliar? The idea is that this person is a programmed which you made when you purchased the Iphone. So, after creating this person of yours, you enter what you would liek to know, for example, email alerts, voicemail alerts, SMS alerts, weather, news updates, etc. A great way this person thing can be useful is when you are in a meeting, and you turn you phone on silent or in a “busy mood” and someone tried to contact you , then this person in the person who is trying to call you’s screen says where you are or what your doing or something along those lines. Does that make sense? I’m still in confused state and I don’t think my idea is that great, BUT! If we are not getting marked entirley on design of the application but more marked on the documentation, then i want to stick to the idea that this person pops out of your screen rather than being in the screen.

If I were to stick to the idea that the person pops out of the screen, the way of communication is that this person can sense your emotions, so you wouldn’t need to talk to it, you would use the touch screen to communicate with. But then again, I don’t really like the idea that  you can’t talk to it…

If you have no idea what you are talking about, that’s ok. Did you watch Captain Planet when you were young? You know that Bad character which always try to detroy the planeteers and captain planet? She’s a women and her hair alway covers half her face?? Well, she programmed a charcter which talks to her on the computer. This character, it does searches for you, basically it des everything for you. So thats how my idea developed.

Any suggestions?