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I think I better blog..at least once…

I’ve done a little research, and I’ve asked many more people about my idea. Its getting abit fustrating when i ask about their opnion though, I say when I’m asking that I don’t want them to think about the possibilty of the idea, just look at the idea..and then they tell me that it would a be technology problem..*screams*

But many people like my idea because its “there”. Obviously..the people I have asked would not go out buy this application..unless you were really desperate. But they liked the idea, since it is an idea which is advancing from another one…so its already an idea…but advancing from it? Does that make any sense?

Many people recommended that I use the program iholo ( as mentioned in my previous blogs) because it would be really fun to be able to “make up” your own hologram. Since I’m sticking with the idea that the user will be able to send a birhtday hologram to a bithday person, they should be able to make up the hologram they are going to send off in the program. I think alot of people like the idea that you can send a hologram to another person as well as having this hologram be your organiser…

 SO! The idea i have so far..its the program is called iholo…( so creative..isn’t it?)

In the program..you can

-tell the hologram ur appointment

-there will be a shortcut to the program on the main screen

-design your hologram

-desingn a hologram with accessories and it off as an SMS

YAY!!

sometimes i really wish i was ian thorpe, then i would have a 50m pool sitting outside my house just waiting for me to enter. I’ve got the worse headahce which is making me think not right. I still have 6 pages to for the DECO1008 assignment, a website to complete, and a maya tutorial to begin.

Uni..such a stressful place, my pimples are coming out non stop…..ARGHHHHH

i need a swim, but i can’t go to a pool at this hour…so..i’ll hop in the shower

haha..why didnt i think of that earlier? maybe after my warm shower i’ll be able to type another 3 pages of the assingment and then HEHEHEE..i can sleeeeeppppp :D:D:D:D:D

I don’t think i’ll post all the itnerviews i did, but i’ll just reply on the interviews ive done so far. I wanted to interview people which were out of the design faculty, and coming from a different i’m limited to friends, so, i decieded to interview dancing people.

i interview a 24 year old dance teacher who does pysch at uni. He does have the use of the diary and he told me that the my idea is cool, a great thing to carry around to look good but its not very practical. I guess he does have a point. He would find it easier to open a diay and write down his events or appointments. I guess my user group for people who do use a diary is not right. but we’ll see when i interview a woman who is the state manager and needs a diary with her at all times.

the other person i interviewed was 19, living byhimself and he does Arts at uni. He liked the idea also, when i told him about suna’s idea of putting the ide of the hologram acting as an organiser and a sms, he liked the idea even more. He said the concept would be more pracitcal if the hologram would do abit more than just tell you your appoitments. Example if it was someones birthday, the hologram would ask you if you wanted to send a sms or whatever.

i think my user group is focusing more towards people who are female are at the age of maybe 20-25 and who have a busy timetable. I think rob was right about how men don’t really seem to ” build” a relationship with objects, they just use it, they don’t see it as something different.

well good luck for me tomorrow

I was really looking forward to doing the interviews, because I was going to interview one person in particular, and that person..haha..DIDN’T SHOW UP!!! :( but i managed to interview another person..

Age: 14

Occupation: year 9 student, sometimes but very rarley uses a diary to record appointments

1. How do you record appointments, meetings and special events?

answer: when I have an assignment due I would ask other people when something is due, when I have an dentist appointment I would use a calender.

Do you use your mobile phone to help you with birthday/appointments?

Answer: No, its too much trouble to go nto the application and type it in, it only leaves a certain amount of text foryou to type in. However I use the alarm clock function as my alarm clock.

3. Why have you never considered using a diary?

Answer: Mainly due to laziness and it takes alot of effort to open the diary and write things down. Another reason is taht even if you write things down in the diary, you often forget to check it and this loses the point of using a diary

4. Do you think using a diary lowers down your self esteem as a male?

Answer: no, it won’t. I think this because I do not not use a diary beucase I think it make me look weak, its simply because I’m lazy 

5. what possibilities would u consider to start using a diary?

Answer: If I was busier and if the diary allowed me to instead write the  appointment, allowed me to speak to it and read it back out when i asked it to.

From this interview, I got the idea that my user group maybe people who do not use a diary at all, but would like to start using one. The user group would have to slightly older age that 14 because at this age, your not that busy. I could only interview one person so far because it is difficult finding people who are willing to contibute. It is also very hard to find people who were willing to take this interview seriosuly but, nevertheless I want to thank Jacky for doing this interview with me, I really appreciate it!