Graduate Series: 3

Write about your plans for the midterm demo day. What will you be ready to show. What challenges will you face in the next 2 weeks to make this work? What state do you expect your project to be in, and how do you anticipate it will be received by the faculty critics?

Final Prototype Checklist:

• an interface
• musical sources
• visual sources
• data collection algorithm
• emoji designs

Demo Day Checklist:

• an interface
• data collection algorithm
• emoji designs

For demo day, I would like to have a working interface — this will be a bit of a challenge because ideally, this interface would have it’s own domain and would work as a responsive, high-latency single page application. However, building out an entire site including the UI and the backend is borderline impossible to do in the timespan we have. So I will have to find an interface that is able to be responsive to user flow, as well as the latency to handle audio/visual files. Figma is currently a top choice, however I will have to do further research to make sure this is the most appropriate tool for me.

Continuing in that vein, the interface will require explicit commands for how to respond emotionally to the user choices and return previous user data. This means creating an algorithm that will allow user responses to be recorded, as well calculating the aggregate of their responses to feed back to the following user. To do this, I’ll have to also figure out a way to store the user data that can speak directly to the interface selected (currently unsure if Figma has this functionality…).

Finally, I’d like to have all specified emotions and their visual representation (currently planning on designing these in Photoshop/Procreate). For demo day, I hope to present a demo that provides the core function of the application, allowing space in the following weeks for deeper introspection surrounding the actual content that I’d like to convey.