“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual
nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, Necessary for everyone in a civilized society” Walter Gropius 1919
Task
Exploring the theme 'home' and develop this following a discipline route. ( Non-sequential narrative : exploring work through Interaction Design )
Visiting Exhibitions
After the tutors issued the theme of Brief 2, we were suggested to visit some exhibitions. When I brought thoughts to visit the exhibition, there will always be unexpected gains. For exemple, perhaps the future ‘home’ is made with 3D printing technology, and has mobile functions. When ‘home’ has the mobile function, the concept of community will be redefined, because families with the same ideas or interests will build the community together that humans can live in any space.
Non-sequential Narrative
At first I didn't know the meaning of non-sequential narrative. I understood the meaning of it by taking part in Andy's workshop. And we brainstormed about "home" in class, which gave me some new insights.
Research about Home
I think this is a project that focuses on personal understanding. In my opinion, home is different from house, apartment, shelter, houseboat, rental house and yurt, because home is unique, which is the mental sustenance of each persons. Other words that describe the home should be called space that allows humans to live. Therefore, the key point of home is an immersive experience, which is made up of people who live with you. They include parents, wife, elders, children, relatives, and even pets. The place with family members can be called home.
Inspiration - Black Mirror
U.S.S. CALLISTER, this film has given me many inspirations. My expected outputs to the project are to create a virtual world about home, which is more like an immersive game world. When people can't get together with family members in the real world, they can use some kind of device that allowed them enter into the virtual world and live with them. The home appearance in the virtual world will be designed to be same as the real one, which will lead to a more realistic experience. At the same time, there is a second option, the house will be designed differently, such as the home of original tribes, the castle of Britain about 200 years ago, the home in the future spaceship, because the place that live with family members can be called home. The virtual world provides a place for them to be safe, easy to communicate and live. In addition, users can use the device to upload their datas, such as images, videos, and the system also records people's language, shapes, even thoughts during the virtual world. Finally the system will create a virtual role that similar to a real person by artificial technology and store in it. Because human beings will eventually die, and the created characters will live in the virtual world forever, no matter what time passes, so that generations in the future will recall the elders who passed away. My understanding is that the real death of the family member is people forget him.
My working title is Immersive Experience of Home, which is helps people to communicate and interact with family members at home in the virtual world, regardless of time and space, even with dead persons.
Sketch Concept
I drew thoughts based on my own story. Those who live in different regions can interact and communicate during the virtual world.
Storytelling
The methods I produce outputs are scene images and a video animation. I can't create the whole system, thus I design different scenes in the system, as well as meaningful pictures. Finally, by making an animated video, which is describe how to use it that display different scenes and how to bring people into an immersive home experience.
Video of the Virtual World
I made the scenes as animation, which helps people better understand the idea of the immersive experience.
After Crit
I have gained many valuable suggestions that will help me improve the works. Among them, the most mentioned is that the video time is too long. Thus, I redesigned to shorten the time from 3 minutes to 1 minute and 40 seconds that to dispaly the works in a more concise way.
In this project, I understood the meaning of non-sequential narrative and learned how to use Pr software to create simple animations that express my insight into "Home".
