Studio Meeting 28/05

Discussion of how to power the projector for the concept.
- Talk of alternative sites. Potential for the exterior of the biology sciences library.

Materials required for filming.
- Projector
- Cardboard for sign
- Movie
- Table to set up projector
- Chairs for people to sit on

Concept map with explanation (formatted)

Our concepts
1  The Public Private Cinema
2  Interactive floor panels deploy in ferry station
3 Anti-Social Alarm
4  “SOS”footprint
5  Always Sometimes Never Adventure Path
6  Sound Recorder
7  Talking Bench
8  Weird Door
9  Weight Overturn Chair
10  lighting sit
11  U-shape seat
12  Inside watch point

Existing Design

Best Bus Stop Ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdcUakdQVA

The 2 Euro T-Shirt - A Social Experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfANs2y_frk

3D illusion art in East London: amazing interactive art installation allows public to play spiderman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbmGb4jRB-w

Explanation
We set social/individual as horizontal axis and interactive/ passive as vertical axis.

We choose social/individual to show normal concept user group, and  interactive/ passive to relevant user active motivation.

Each concept will be evaluated, the position on the concept map shows comparative with three existed concept which are best bus stop, Euro T-shirt, and 3D illusion. 

Minutes Studio Meeting 14/05/15

Meeting Started 1:45pm - All members present

Discussion of Team Concepts:

Asters Concept Lighting Seat

• Taking a supporting stance on thesis 1. Chair is there to add joy into joyless site. 
• Need to be more specific on location within site. 
• Making into more of an interactive game, add a steering wheel and camera linked to ferry.

Aster Concept In Floor

• Taking a supporting stance on thesis 1. Ferry station is boring put this installation in to add joy
• Make it a forced multiplayer game, so need to be social. Being social brings joy. People will reflect on experience with others.

Asters  Concept U-Shaped Seat

• Take stance on thesis, clean up description (i,e like speed dating)

Ruixue Concept SOS Footprints

• Change to Thesis 3, take a supporting stance. 

Ruixue Concept Talking Box

• NICHOLAS to  - Combine with Nicholas' concept
• Taking a stance supporting thesis 1. Chair installed to help bring back joy.

Ruixue Sound Recorder

• Random playback for privacy.
• Supporting Thesis, because people are talking to a machine rather than a person.
• Add some sort of note taking system to get user feedback on why they used the installation. 

Ruixue Inside Watch Point Concept.

• Add stance supporting. 

Nicholas Weird Door Concept.

• Change to thesis 3, supporting the idea that there are not enough invitations. Provides an open invitation through the doorway.

Nicholas Weight Overturn Chair:

• Change description, make sure you include that the see-saw is reversed in its function.
• Change thesis: Challenge, our modern built environment CAN bring joy.

Lyndon Concept Private Public Cinema

• Change name

Lyndon Concept Always sometimes Never

• Make note for time of day when installation would occur.
• Implement a better reward for the Never path.

Lyndon Concept Anti-Social Alarm

• Add in a bell ringing or alarm, when people put pressure on the front of the unit.

TO BE DONE FOR SUBMISSION ON FRIDAY

Everyone format concepts correctly by end of today.
Post concept maps to google drive for document compilation.
- Each concept map needs an explanatory paragraph. Concept maps to include existing installations taken from the Google+ page.
Lyndon Post up final document on Google Drive


Address document to Client, and address their needs. Link back installation and the audience to the Client.

Interium report. This is where we are up to, we did this this this this.
     - Introduce site evals, justify their importance to the final concept and design.

Concept map - Nicholas

Lyndon Concept Map

Concept map 1

Recompose concept cards 1-4 (sketch added)

U-shape seat # Lyndon Comments added

thesis based: “Society has too many prohibitions and too few invitations”
I like this idea of an invitation to be social. It ties into thesis 2 quite a lot as well. Having white boards and screens up which people use to communicate rather than talk face to face, supports thesis two by showing that people are anti-social and would rather interact with a board then face to face. Instead of having whiteboards for all the chairs you could have a screen which reads out tweets for the station where people could have conversations. Reflecting the idea that people want to be social in anti-social ways. 
Technic/equipment: whiteboard, marked pen, eraser and chairs

lighting seat - concept card 2 # Lyndon Comments Added

Thesis based: "Our modern built environment drains joy from our lives"
I like the idea of a chair that people can relax in while they are waiting for the ferry. However, where would a chair like this be placed? Where in the ferry terminal would it be able to fit? If it was going in the QUT GP terminal this terminal is undercover so it might need to use power rather than solar panels. Again I feel like this might be trying to do too much, is it trying to give people somewhere to relax or somewhere to learn more about the ferry? I would narrow it down to doing one of these two things and then take a stance on the thesis.
This is a pretty cool idea, it is so sweet to have warming system. I suggest added a notification, just increase people fell a sleep and miss the ferry.
Technic used: Touch-screen, solar power, video and interactive gesture.
Site： corner of ferry station

Concept of Nicholas #Lyndon Comments Added.

Concept1：Strange Bench

This one is similar with Crystal's talking box
This is way to similar to Crystals concept. I think the idea of having sensors is a great addition to Crystals concept but we need this to be more different. Perhaps something where the chair actually lights up telling people where to sit or not to sit. For example in a bus or ferry station people will often avoid sitting next to other people. If one person sits down the seat next to them lights up green while the rest stay red.
This idea is good with simple and fun. It is very good to use sensor to break the silence between two strangers and have a good mood and atmosphere to start to make a conversation. Similar with sound idea, if possible to prepare some topic will helpful to keep conversation going or set some categories to match people with same interests. 
Even better, using Mackymacky will bring better interaction on our installation, One thing we need to consider is how to make the metal coils invisible, because people may not sit on it if they realize something on the bench.
Thesis：Public spaces are anti-social spaces

Stance: Support

Site: Queens street, Park, Public transport station

Description:

Ø  There are two metal coils built-in the two sides of bench as sensors to detect is there people sit on the bench.

Ø  These coils are connect with Macky Macky. When there are two people sitting down on the bench, coils will be connected, and this will trigger that Macky Macky arouses a signal to speaker

Ø  Then， the speaker will say “Hi guys, what’s the weather like today?”, “Don’t be nervous， I’m just a robot and do not try to find me” “Could you guys say Hello to your friends.”

Target audience

All of group of people, especially those who just focus on the mobile phone once they sit down.

Scenario

A young guy sit on a bench in the Queens street and take out mobile from package to scan his Facebook and Twitter. Few minutes later, there is someone sit on the other side of this bench and the facility detects this situation and triggers the speaker to work. In the beginning, both of them feel weird and curious. And they try to find where gives out this sound. Few seconds later, they start follow the instruction of the speaker and start a conversation.

Concept2：Weird Door

Thesis: Our modern built environment drains joy from our lives

Stance: Challenge
How is this challenging the idea? Is it trying to say that doors are exciting parts of our lives? Or is it supporting the idea that our lives are boring so we need to add a weird door to make it more exciting? Perhaps it is more aligned with Thesis three and that it is an invitation and people should see every door as an invitation.

Site: Open space, like square and park
Site needs to be more specific, would it be in the middle of the park? Or at one of the edges? Would it be easy to see or hard to find?

Description:

Ø  This is just a door with a frame.

Ø  If could, it should be minimal or even postmodernism style.
Why is this important? Justify the type of people it is trying to appeal to or attract.

Ø  There is a key and an instruction about how to open this door.

Ø  When people pass this door, it should have a sound filled by scientific feeling.

Target audience: All people

Scenario:

There is a door standing on the middle of grassland or square. A lot of people surround this door with curiosity. Someone tries to open this door, but he doesn’t follow the instruction and fails. Then, the other one tries to open this door following the instruction. It is working and he pass this door with a special sound.

The general idea is good however personally think its too simple. The unopened door people may think it is one abstract sculpture and the final result may make people feel the sense of  they tried endeavour to open that door and just receive this. 

It is a interesting idea and remind me about the movie Monsters University.People's curiosity may influence their behaviors, once there is someone open the door, the others will know the answer, if we thinking about add different reaction in open the door, people will be more surprised.

Concept 3: Weight Overturn Chair

Thesis: Our modern built environment drains joy from our lives

Stance: Deny
Again how does this deny the thesis? If we are denying we are saying that our modern built environment does not drain joy from our lives. If it does not drain joy why should we add this chair? I feel that it support the thesis.

Site: Grassland

Description:

Ø  There are two chairs which seems normally.

Ø  When people sit down on these chairs, chairs will get the weight of them and do response.

Ø  The lighter one’s chair will fall down slowly, and the heavier one’s chair will be lifted up the same degree of the other’s falling.

Ø  The speaker will say ‘Oh, you are so heavy that lift your friend up’

Target audience: Couples, Friends
Cool idea, its like a see-saw park bench right? I think it needs a different approach for trying to get people to reflect than just having a speaker. Maybe a plaque or something that people can read.

Scenario

A pair of people, who are good friends and know each other very well, go to sit on the chairs. Suddenly, the chairs move slowly, and the heavier one is lifted by the lighter one. It seems anti-physical sense. And the speaking makes them laugh.

It feels like the represent the game we player at the child. Very cool while people saw on the public space and easily attract more people coming after one or two people had a try. I would think the last phrase could be more exaggerate than announcement by speaker in order to create a fun environment.
Agree with Aster, but this would be a little negative to show people's weight, some people will be sensitive and get angry on that.

Site Survey: Streets Beach, South Bank

This is a special place located in the middle of South Bank parkland. Streets Beach is an artificial beach with a pool, where people can swim under lifeguard watching.

Figure 1: Adult is swimming

Figure 2: The pool is closing

Observation time: 10 May, 2015 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Site Observation

• This place is an amazing playground for people. There is a beach and pool in the middle of the city and beside the Brisbane river. This location can give people a special feeling. Like figure 1, it gives a player or swimmer a visual illusion - infinite pool, where a nice experience is provided by some hotels in Bali. And the opposite bank is Brisbane City. A contrast has been created between the high building and peaceful beach.
• The pool has different depths. In the middle of the pool is deeper than both sides. So children can play water safely in the edge areas. Due to this, the whole place is filled by happiness (Kids laughing, running, and playing).
• The observation time was a little bit late, so the peak time was passing. There were less people stay in the beach for chatting and relax.
• The whole area has a lot of warning signs showing to people who are playing here for safety issue.
• There are two restaurants next to the beach and people like sit on the outside seat facing the beach and river.
• Also, there is grassland at the surrounding of the beach, on which people sit or lie for picnic. Whilst, some BBQ facilities are provided for people.
• A promenade called Clem Jones Promenade in the middle between the beach and river. walkers, runners and cyclists mixed together use this passageway.

Children are playing in the water

Warning signs is everywhere in this place

laying on the beach for relax

chatting and picnic on the beach

playing cards

seat facing the beach and river

eating on the grassland

BBQ facility

people observation
People on the beach

• more than 10 people, it should have more people in peak time.
• 15 children playing in the water, which means at least 15 parents stand around.

People on the grassland

• In one small piece of grassland has 10 pairs of people sitting on here chatting, fighting for playing  and playing computer.

People walking on the promenade

• This place is very busy on this time, there are more than 100 people passing from observation point. Some of them are walking, some of them are running and cycling. Perhaps, there always has been a lots of people passing here. 

People on the market next to the beach

• Normally, there are so many people hang on in this market. But, it closes at 4 p.m. in Sunday, so just few many people hang on at observation time and leaving crowds.

Conclusion
Here, it is a relax place for people. Child could play water with others safely. Young guys sat on the artificial beach to chat with each other, kill time, picnic and even play cards. Due to this feature, here, people is free and open to try something new. However, certain time, there are too many people in the whole area. Thus, we need to find a place with an enough space to avoid crowding.

Basically, this site is good for conducting an installation.

Meeting Minutes 11/05

Meeting Agenda 11/05

- Team members attended Lyndon, Ruixue.

Discuss Site Evaluations

Queens Park

·        Interesting Findings

o   Queens Park, Very busy on the weekend.

o   Very easy for people to communicate

o   Open and sunny

·        Potential Problems

o   Traffic issues on weekends.

King George Square

·        Potential Problems

o   Issues with department of transport and main roads.

Ferry Station

·        Interesting Findings

o   Good because user group are kept separate

Discuss Concepts

·        Feedback from team

·        List potential improvements

o   Issues with context / application

o   How does it engage?

o   How reflective is it?

·        Plan for Concept iteration and further concept work for team members.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR CONCEPT CARDS.

(identify the thesis it is a response to and your particular stance or interpretation of that thesis in this installation concept, identify an appropriate public site and time of day for the installation, describe the target audience (should relate to people who frequent that site), a description of what the installation is and how it is supposed to work to engage people, make them think, how they can interact with it or you, etc., and a user scenario of what is supposed to and likely to happen when a member of the public encounters it.)

Make sure concept cards are in the following format. 

To be done before Thursday Meeting...
- Everyone to Generate a  Concept maps.

- Everyone Print concept cards.

- Everyone put critique on everyone else's concept cards. Write your critique in at the end in the following colours

               Lyndon - Red

               Ruixue - Green

               Aster - Blue

               Nicholas -  Purple

-  Lyndon, Apply consistent formatting to concept cards + Update sketches. Please ensure all concept cards are finalized by Wednesday.

-  Lyndon Set up design document for submission of Phase 1 deliverables.

Concept 3 #Lyndon, Nicholas Comments Added

Sound Recorder

Thesis Based on: 

“Public Spaces are Anti-Social Spaces"
Is this challenging or supporting? By needing a sound recorder to talk share with others maybe it makes a statement about how anti-social people are.
I think it is both challenging and supporting...we might discuss at next meeting.

Context of Use:  

This installation will be used in a park  or anywhere else people not in time rush. People some time need to pour out to a stranger without been weird, a Sound recorder can make this happen.

Concrete scenario of use

‘walker A walking though queens park and seen a notice board with introduction for a sound recorder. He was upside for weeks, and he do not want to talk to familiar people, he decided to try sound recorder and listen a stranger’s record. He feels good after he finally speak out the reason he upside.
Maybe the strangers record doesn't match the value of this guy, so he feels more angry about this.
Yes, he definitely might be, that is good point, we may thinking about positive and negative this concept relevant. 

installation description

■The installation include two part. A sound recorder, and a notice board.
Maybe on the notice board we can ask people why they have not shared this with someone else before?
But if we add this on the board would improve the barrier of participant.
OK, I will leave this for next discussion.

■The notice board will be put on the top of sound recorder, showing people how to sound recorder works.

■Recorder can only keep one record at one time, when user take a sound record, they can not choose the sound listener, the next user can only take a new sound record after they finish listen to the late sound record.
I think it's better to have a bigger storage and provide recording randomly. But each record will be broadcast just once. It will increase the anonymity.
But what if someone record without listen?

■Sound recorder installation will be used for people social communicate without face to face communication.

Simple implement and create a surprise for people always is a good idea. Personally think it will be better to have fun or amuse props come with sound may decrease the hostility from visitor. Plus, i think its hard to get people back again as its looks like no link between each sound, i would like to suggest to come with some rules to make it like a game etc. Lastly, i would suggest to provide a machine to make player to have a scale comments, how were they satisfied with this amazing experiences? 

Concept 2 Talking Box #Lyndon Comments Added

Talking box

Thesis Based on: 

"Our modern built environment drains joy from our lives"
What stance are we taking. Trying to break peoples routines get them to enjoy spaces more. 

Context of Use:  

This installation will be used in bus station or a ferry station.

Again more specific.

Concrete scenario of use

‘A is going get CityCat to work, he go to the ferry as usual, there are two row of  benches all of them face the river, there is no chance to face the other people and talk to them, people sit one by one and A started to look at his phone. Suddenly, a voice came out from the back of benches. It said: “hey, guys, I can not see any interesting on you phone. A and an other people nearby trying to find out what happened, and they both pick up their phone.

installation description

■The installation is a small box with speaker inside.

■This box will be putted on bus station benches.

■The speaker will have personality to talking to people who sit on the benches.

■When people sit on the benches, the box may talking to get their attention, they may invited talking to each other. For example: “hey, how are you?” “I know you are looking at you phone, am I right?” “people next to you told me you are beautiful”.

■People will notice this talking box and get their attention out of their phone. 
There is not a lot of opportunity for reflections. Maybe the box could ask people are they have finished talking how much fun they had?
Do we need to add some recorder or note to get feedback?


Personally like this idea as its create a good start for communication between strangers. And the equipment of this project are quite simple and easily to implement. But, sometimes, people may think their privacy was infringed or they had a important phone call. I would suggest may have a less direct as an opening. Secondly, it will be better to create some topic ahead of project start to avoid awkward silence meanwhile provide a method to measure the quality of project(interesting topic, smile or bad face, how long they spent on specific topic etc).

Concept 1 SOS Footprint #Lyndon Comments added

Concept 1“SOS”footprint

Thesis Based on: 

“Public Spaces are Anti-Social Spaces"

Context of Use:  

This installation will be used in a park  or anywhere else people not in time rush.
Need to be more specific on the context. Where exactly the installation will be placed.

Concrete scenario of use

■‘walker A is going to city and walking cross the Queens Park, he found there are many footprint in front of each benches with “SOS”, he is a helpful Guy so he following the footprint and find a cabin, he was curiosity and he went into the cabin, these a projector inside and shows him “Do not wait to talk to the people only in need of help." then he meet the other guy was tricked like him, they talking to each other to share this experience.

installation description

■The installation include three part. footprints with “SOS” on it, A movable enclosed cabin space, and projector.

Would the SOS be inside the footprints or separate letters and then footprints? Might want to say box rather than cabin.
Right, box is more relevant to our design.

■The footprints will be putted on the park path way, all the footprint will lead people to cabin.

■Cabin will be set on the other side of the park, has projector inside.

■When people following the footprint into the cabin, the projector will show them different words on the wall. For example: “You are so helpful people, I am sure you would like sharing experience with the next guy come into this cabin." so they might have conversation with the other strangers with this trick.
I think the link to the thesis is a little bit hard to understand. Perhaps the projector could just display the thesis and prompt people to reflect on it "public spaces are anti-social splaces... Discuss"
Good point, I will add this into concept card. We can get more advice from class. 

■People can leave note in the cabin.
Great way to get peoples reflections

■We will observing them by the whole time

Would we use a camera inside the box? or would it be someone inside? Is the box for one person only?

The box can be bigger than one person, but I think we may not be inside, It is good idea we put a camera inside.

Personally think the clue at the beginning may confused people and much easier attract police officer's attention than curious people to have a visit. And if we try create horror situation or somebody desperately need help, it may better to add more sentences and images on the pathway. For the ending part, a little bit concern about if people find the result was they were cheated for fun, they may overreact and occur some unexpected situation. Plus, the whole recording may better than observed by person.

Site 1 survey: Queens Park Brisbane City

Site 1 survey: Queens Park Brisbane City

Site observation 1

Wednesday 06/05 12:45 AM

• Queens Park is a small park across the road from the Casino at the top of the city. Many people were stopped here in suits and business wear enjoying their lunch in the sun presumably on lunch from their work in the city.

• With the amount of palm trees and open space there is an opportunity for a potentially large installation. Perhaps a beach in the middle of the city or something to that extent. While this space helps challenge the idea that society has too few invitations the space itself was still not particularly social with most people eating alone.

• This lane way is just past the park. It is interesting in that there is nothing really in this lane and no real reason to go down it other than exploration. Perhaps there is always an invitation to explore and adventure that people can choose to engage with or not.

Site observation 2

Saturday 09/05 around 2 PM

• Queens Park is not very big and settled in middle of city.
• Buildings surrounded but still has wonderful Open space for installation.
• The park grass grows very well here and has been manicured comfortable to sit and play.
• The view is good in this park, this might be a reason people stay and rest here.
• Several path across the park and have benches beside for people having rest.
• Trees can be seen in middle of the park, but not provide a large shade, people can enjoy the sunshine and have great field of vision, this will helpful in attracting more people around to installation. Otherwise, less shade also need to be considered to a disadvantage for attract people if it is too hot outside.
• Park connects with a side road, people may cross it to bus station on the other side.
• Queens Park is just beside Casino and people work in city nearby might have rest after working time.

People observation

• People rest on grassland

3 female talking (seems on 20 age)

1 female with 1 male together (seems on 30 age)

4 female, 2 male with 3 children (seems to be families play and rest on grass)

1 female with 2 male (having lunch)

2 male and 1 female (individual siting)

• People sitting on benches

2 female siting together (seems on 40 group wearing formal)

1 male siting individual (wearing suit)

1 male siting individual (eating something and use computer)

1 female siting individual (wearing dress)

1 female just leave individual (on phone call)

• People walk through (in 5 minutes)

9 male (7 of them wearing casual, 2 of them wearing suit)

6 female (all wearing casual or dress)

1 group of students with 3 boys.

Conclusion

The park is a convenient pass way for people, in weekend observing, 18 people walk through the park in 5 minutes in afternoon, none of them seems to be hurry and none of them running cross the park, furthermore, one male use the path across the park and walking on the grass and seems enjoyable. It seems have enough walkers having time to look at installation in weekend.

People resting in the park mostly enjoy their time, most of them do not have particular things to do by observing, and they might be easy attracted by installation.

On weekend, People enjoy their time may more interesting in “Society has too many prohibitions and too few invitations” installation here. Otherwise, on weekdays, people working beside hand having lunch hear may more interested in“Our modern built environment drains joy from our lives” installation. However, walkers may be attracted by any theme installation by people surrounded.