Designing Interactions

Design Proposal for Escape Hunt Brisbane: http://brisbane.escapehunt.com/ Our last project in Designing Interactions was a design proposal for one of the intresting lab’s we visited this semester. My group chose to focus on how Escape Hunt Brisbane can implement Augmented Reality to make a more interactive and dynamic experience.

Some examples of how Augmented Reality can be used at Escape Hunt Brisbane: Clues connected to artifacts:  AR can be used to show clues connected to specific artefacts. For example, if the participants mobile device over a picture on the wall it will show the picture  with a small information box that says something important the participants need to know to solve a puzzle.  It can also be used to show videos, for example with background story. 

You are getting warm: Another example could be an ‘You are getting warm’ function, where red colour will indicate that the participants are getting closer to a clue and the blue colour the opposite.

On Monday 14th September we went to QUT Biofabrication Lab at Kelvin Grove. Associate Professor Mia Woodruff and her team told us about 3D printing of human tissues and organs. They showed us the 3D printers, which can produce 3D plastic scaffolds out of fibers much thinner than human hair. They showed different examples of how it can be used, e.g. a patient with breast cancer. 

Actually I had never heard about 3D printing of human tissues and organgs before. It was a very intresting and inspiring visit. The technology has the potential to disrupt the medical industry and change the whole process at for example hospitals, which also affects our work as interaction designers! 

I am really excited about the influence this technology may have on future hospitals! 

Yesterday in class we visited HUB Studio to experience Oculus Rift VR Worlds and to hear about their work with Virtual Reality. First, Wesley Heard showed us how he constructs 3D assets for the virtual reality experiences. Afterwards, HUB Sound Designer Nathan Corporal told us about his work with recording and editing sound for VR. Some from the class tried different virtual reality experiences and it was really fun to see their reactions!  

It was our last lab visit this semester. It has been a really big inspiration to experience the different emerging technologies in a ‘real world’ perspective. 

Wesley showing us how he create 3D assets for VR experiences.

Line tried one of the VR experiences. So fun! 

Nathan showing us the sound system. 

Today in class we tried Virtual Reality glasses. It was awesome. People had some very funny reactions! 

Yesterday students from a Creative Writing class joined our session. We introduced our concepts for an Escape The Room game we are doing in collaboration with Calpoly and got valuable feedback that will help us develop our puzzle designs. The students gave us feedback on our ideas, especially our crossword idea with Australian-known words (In our group we are all from Denmark)

Yesterday we visited Escape Hunt in Brisbane to experience their ‘Escape the room’ adventure. We had to choose between three different rooms: Jail, murder in barber-shop and bomb in government house. My group chose THE BOMB (We found out later that it was HARD level)  

We we did it and finished 3 MINUTES before the time (60 minutes) ran out! It was so fun and I will definitely try it again! :-)

In our next project, we have to come up with challenges for a new escape room in Brisbane, so It was also very inspiring to see how it works with the ‘World, Play, Rules’ set in mind! 

Today we visited QUT at Gardens Point to see different interesting technologies. First we saw The Cube Multi-touch and projection installation and afterwards we got a presentation of Foot tracking and gesture technology by Adam Siliato. It was very interesting! I am looking forward to our idea generation on these technologies. I’ll share it with you later! 

Enjoy the pictures! 

The Cube: 

Actually I find my hometown in Denmark at this map! So cool! 

Foot tracking and gesture technology: 

Today in class we had a workshop on Storytelling. We had to make our own narrative with 3 different Story Events with main characters and a general theme. 

My group chose following Story Events, that happens during the story:  - Wedding  - Death - Flood 

Our characters: 

A Woman - 30 years old  - Kind - Shy - Likes to shop 

A Man - 35 years old - Selfish  - Career minded

A dog  - 2 years old 

In brief, one of our ideas was that the woman went for a walk with her dog, the dog fell into the flood and couldn’t swim, the man saved the dog and in the end the man and the woman gets married. We worked with different compositions in order to see how much a narrative can change. I think we need to work a little further with our storytelling brainstorm and maybe try to involve some other characters :-)

Case: Beauty APP ‘L’Oreal Makeup Genius Company: L’Oreal Paris Duration: June 2014-now

I work in the fashion/beauty industry and was presented to this app from L’Oreal Paris called ‘Makeup Genius’ at the launch in Denmark in 2015. Actually, it was launched in USA in June 2014 and since in many other countries around the world. The virtual makeup app, Makeup Genius, was born out of L'Oreal USA's Connected Beauty Incubator, a new business division based out of L'Oreal's Research & Innovation labs in Clark, New Jersey, dedicated entirely to technology innovation.

‘Makeup Genius’ borrows its technology from the gaming industry, and allows you to scan an ad or image to detect a color match, try on specific products or test out looks specifically chosen by L’Oreal experts. The app uses a highly-advanced facial mapping algorithm that allows women to try on eye shadow, eyeliners, lip colors and blushes and play with different looks, all in real time. You can save your selfie, share it on social media, and purchase the products directly through the app.

Watch the video below: 

To kickstart my inspiration and research for our future Case Study project, I found this article with 5 top Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Trends 2015: