Hi! 👋
Long time no see...
We're on again after the first semester exam period and semester vacation, on to start develop and test our product on our potential users!
But before that, let us update you with our first semester final presentation
First, we decided a name for the produce - SeeMe.
SeeMe is a name that reflects our main goal of the product - to let other see their virtual behavior impact on me, in order to maybe think longer before acting this way in the future.
Second, we present SeeMe for a group of mentors on a first semester presentations event. We received feedback about the product and its interaction with the users (children in the age of elementary school), we conclude the following insights from the presentation the the mentor's feedback:
The lamp (the physical, tree shaped product, located inside the classroom to represent the student's feelings online) will have two operation states: daily and weekly display. The daily display will show the current class feeling state - it will update twice a day, automatically. The weekly display will show a "time laps" animation of the current week's class feelings, in order to ignite discourse in class about positive and offensive behavior online.
The product's output, that will affect the atmosphere in class, is light. We chose light and colors due to its ability to express abstract structure for subjective perception. The colors we chose to express on the lamp are blue for offensive reports and yellow for positive reports. We chose those colors due to our psychological research. More output options to consider and check are blinking or fading lights.
Teacher's dashboard which will include exclusive (yet anonymous) data about the class and the students is a feature we consider to develop later on, in order to empower the teacher for better impact.
The position of the lamp is something for us to check in user testing, for now we think of an always-visible position in the front corner of the class.
This week we started to work on the development and to improve our product design and feel.
Development
Tomer and Gilad started to work on the first demo of the SeeMe. After technological research and implementation decisions, they started the development.
The first demo will include a web page for the student's reporting platform (instead of an app in the future), an MQTT broker and cloud server that receive and replay to the messages, and an ESP8266 NodeMCU microcontroller that receive responses from the cloud and display the data by lighting LED strip in relevant colors.
Check out our development progress in the following video:
Visit our Github repo to see the coding progress.
Design
Netanela, Shashar and Noy participated an exercise in class that encourage them to think about a new design for another group's product. The group that got our product suggested other designs such as Spongebob figure, mirror and a traffic light.
The next exercise was to design a mood board for the product, which will emphasize the feels and senses that our product ask to expose the users.
We divided the mood board to three colors, green, yellow and blue - according to SeeMe colors:
