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Yesterday was our interim presentation. to document here the slides and a brief explanation.
topic description
We again briefly about our degree and our motives for this topic.
goal is an application software for the digital communication is developed that the existing range of digital communications and their functions are combined and restructured. That is, we provide the user with an interface for digital communication. We can tackle this project on several sides, we dedicate ourselves to the subject area of personal communication, that is, how to make personal digital communication. This also means that we will not respond explicitly to technical or economic factors.
We also will develop no redesign of the existing software programs, but a new concept with the fact that the personality should play a major role in digital communication.
Our target group are individuals who are already familiar with the Computer and communication programs targeted to use in everyday life.
motivation
We are on this subject as we encountered both in practice and semester abroad were. At that time we both were indeed separated from each other, but us digital communications programs still allowed to have a closer contact with each other.
We were thrilled again and again how practical digital communication is playing and how fast space or time limits this no longer relevant.
human-machine communication
general it can be To say that digital communication is becoming increasingly important. Finally, we will look closely at it, has adopted what role digital media and digital communication already in our daily lives.
Digital communication is many of us already everyday already taken root. Therefore we have set ourselves with our project also aims to incorporate certain things from the analog domain in the digital domain.
"Digital feelings"
First signs that the user has a desire for emotional communication, for example, one can observe the emoticons or ASCII characters.
emotions from the analog, personal communications are built into the digital communication. This shows that the user attempts to make personal digital communication and something like "digital feelings" to develop. Moreover, one can also recognize that digital communication brings with it the negative aspects. In this case would cite in particular the phenomena of language change, such as the abbreviation of words, ignoring the case-sensitive or low language vocabulary for digital communication.
analysis
us as a user is a flood of different communications software available. In our research, we have analyzed for, among other things, the existing communication programs, their structure and functions and investigated.
We found that all programs work very similar: There is a classic contact list, the contacts are also always displayed by a profile picture. Communication takes place in a separate window, and works on most icons. In general, the individual programs have many, many functions, they are real all-rounder. Many functions of the user knows not because they are hidden in the navigation and not on the user interface.
At this time we have of course looked after our personal wishes. We use different software for different types of communication and therefore always changing between programs. This is also too dependent on software in which the desired contact is located or what software you prefer. It is almost always at the switch.
There are now software programs such as Adium, Trillian or Meebo that address this problem of the switch. That is, one chooses with his different accounts and then has all his contacts clearly at a glance on the interface.
Concept 1
In our Analysis we created a structure tree that is received on the one hand to the problems of existing software programs and also reduces the software as regards their functions.
The user and his contacts are important, ie that the user can also set their availability status individual for his contacts. The user thus defines itself with whom he would like to communicate when and how. Moreover there should be only two levels of availability, either you are online and want to communicate, or you're offline.
A simple operation is also equally important to us. The user is to fast its communication capabilities, which are in Text, voice and image to see divide. Where it should be noted here that the distinction between asynchronous and synchronous communication, for example, distinguish a text communication is no longer between an e-mail or chat. All three types of communication the user should be offered equally sympathetic. In addition, we are thinking about additional information such as spelling, grammar, archiving or analysis of communication.
First Scribbles
visual implementation of the tree structure based on first Scribbles:
first Circle
The user is in the spotlight, the contacts form a circle around him. Our findings: The circular representation is only a contact for representation, but as soon as movement or communication in this model starts having problems in the mold.
second Ways
We tried to make the communication and connections and understand the actions visible. We also represent different availability of the contacts, so that the online status can be set individually for each contact.
Conclusion:
the end, we only saw a redesign of the existing software. We knew all this were not personal enough. The user especially in the receiver position, we were not sufficient in the foreground and the operation was not intuitive enough. In addition, the existing problems of the existing software was still not solved, unfortunately.
are way from the "screen thinking"
Therefore, we again assume a very different view. We have focused more on the user and the future of digital communications. It was important that communication is possible on all communication devices and they are also related to each other.
communication methods and character
have also We examined the different types of communication and character that we are available here. The different types of communication, we arranged with regard to the personality factors and time in a coordinate system. Through this analysis, we could make a short review and had a direct comparison of analog and digital communication.
We also wanted our project does not address the social networks as it is for us not a topic of personal communication is one.
How to organize contacts and create hierarchies?
In our first approach we had the problem that it not personal enough. We solve this problem by filter options that are available to the user.
contacts for this purpose are classified into three groups:
The first group are contacts with whom I am familiar with and which I wish a personal and intensive communication. If you set this makes on a person, they are the best friends or partners.
The second group are people with whom I am not in constant contact, that is merely good friends.
The third group are less important contacts, people with whom I communicate more often.
"emotion control"
We now assume that the user is a kind of "emotion control" has, with which he intended would communicate as much and in what manner he. The three groups are the employment levels dar. the user wants to communicate with a lot of contact, he set him in the first group, as it may assign him but also depending on the operating rate of the second or third group. Thus, the user many more contacts than other methods of communication and filters, so to speak its accessibility.
Each user is assigned in turn to a different user contact, ie the contact it is also in the individual groups.
We know that this classification can be considered to provide scoring. Nevertheless, we consider them as useful, as is the main focus of the project on the personal communication and is this grouping of the software an honest character and is in communication addressed more to the user. In the following weeks will show how far we will allow this idea in the project.
concept 2
From these findings, we created a new concept and a new tree structure.
The receiver is now in the foreground, it can determine how he wants to get a message. The station is still not restricted, it also displayed all types of communication available. The message is filtered by the software before it reaches the recipient.
Different Devices
Since our software is to be applied to different devices, we must also take into account the differing circumstances of different screens and their resolution. do
view of the contact list
with experimental methods of representation we test, how to represent such as contacts, apart from the traditional list form. We want to bring in several presentations to our contacts in the software to allow the user to such a simple operation. For this, we think of a mix of alphabetical, chronological and hierarchical representations.
communication
first scribbles, as one can get from the contact list to the communication window.
three principles, we thought, until now:
first The "principle of drawing", which means I pull my contacts from my contact list on an imaginary communication area. The communication begins.
second The "principle of the ways", that means I'm back the traceability of my actions.
third The "principle of dynamics." By clicking on my contact is a communication window, my contacts regroup in their presentation to the communication window around.
These are first our first consideration, we must continue to work on it. We also hope that this works to operate something experimental.
might look like a communication window?
Certain contacts are in communication more opportunities than others. With typographical means how do such as changing the font size or tracking, we allow this and thus personalize the communication.
Incoming messages
Some considerations as to how messages could be received by the recipient: By changing the color, size, shape or movement could happen. Moreover, as can be combined with the time factor, such as using animated shapes, or the like.
scenario
beginning we all on the smallest elements broken down and analyzed to see how this in a actual use can work. For this purpose we have developed a small scenario to be able to imagine the interaction of the components better.
I have my contact list is organized hierarchically, is for me personally important contacts at the top, less important contacts are lower in the groups.
Now I want to work and not be disturbed. I arrange all the contact to a person on the lower groups.
Now I get a call, my communication window opens, I can at the same time Exchange text messages with this person. The communication is terminated by separating the path of the connection, as if I would cut them.
I would like to send a text message to a second person and I know that this person is at the beginning of the alphabet. Therefore, I change from a hierarchical arrangement of the contact list to an alphabetical arrangement. Then I send the message that second person. The communication I finish the turn by "cutting" of the road.
Bin I am now out of the office or not directly to my computer, forwarded the messages on my mobile phone or similar device. For this purpose, I set before my priorities once and for specific devices. Photo boxes for presentation
In support of our presentation, we were still 6 Beamer Photo boxes, on which several scribbles were raised. These are the same as scribbles on the slides.
CONCLUSION OF THE PRESENTATION BETWEEN
The intermediate presentation is over, it went very well. Questions from students, but also by professors we were justified and were also to all the right answers. Enlarged or counter-arguments were made - we are so happy :-).
six weeks are now over. We also know that we still have a lot ahead of us: First we must
further fine-tune the design and after that it's scraping the barrel, of course, the screen design. Until then, we have first before a couple of busy days ...
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