#milestone1

💰 $800–$3000+

✅ Best graphics, mods, huge library

Expensive, not portable, upkeep needed

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🎮 Handheld (Switch 2)

💰 ~$399–$499

✅ Portable, Nintendo exclusives, local play

Weaker hardware, smaller library, battery limits

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🎮 Console (PS5 / Xbox Series X)

💰 ~$499–$599

✅ Easy setup, strong exclusives, optimized for TV

Not upgradeable, pricey games, not portable

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🎮 Mobile Gaming

💰 $300–$1200 (phone)

✅ Always with you, free-to-play, huge variety

Touch controls, battery drain, microtransactions

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🎮 VR Gaming

💰 $300–$1000+

✅ Super immersive, unique gameplay, growing library

At this point our work process felt chaotic, and amount of ideas where overwhelming. In a way we were scared and lost, but we still were obliged to come and present our “Thing”, which was not a thing yet. Presenting it to teachers helped us to organise thoughts, and come up with kind a structure; as well as to find out how hight are demands and stacks at this point.

After supervision we went to test sensory feedbacks. We considered sound, haptics, temperature and visual. We started from questioning again what we want to communicate through the feedback in relation to our HMW (materials, construction method, how abstract it should be.) 

A key realisation was to focus on the sensory feedback before the actual purchase occurs. If you consider buying a product, it is at the initial consideration phase that feedback on the price would be the most impactful. NB! Insight we got from a tester to make users more aware of their purchases it might not be very effective to give feedback of what you have bought after the transaction is made, because then you cant really change anything or reflect on the purhase and it might be a while before your next purchase.

SInce range of signals we can give is not very wide we also have other questions what the feedback should relate to? Was it feedback on the price compared to similar products? Compared to your balance? In relation to all products in that store? After some hours of discussion we decided to focus on giving feedback on the price of an object based on how much you have spent throughout the day. We chose this option because we felt that comparing a product to another with sensory feedback could be a bit redundant as you could just look at the price tags. We also wanted to steer clear of just comparing it to your balance because.  

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keep revisiting HMW;  

Hey! I'm Elif and we are planning to do a senior project about psychological problems, especially about what we feel, so it will be (kinda) like a personal project.

For my first milestone I gathered all the feelings that I have been feeling during my mental breakdowns, my times spent alone thinking, when I am in a place that I don’t feel safe, which I can say “out of my comfort zone”. But I also considered the opposite situations: my normal days, when I am with my friends or the ones that I love, when I am doing something that I enjoy or being in a place that I love, the times when I am not alone or when I don’t have much time thinking about myself. So I came up with some explanations of how I feel. Here are couple of them;

Over thinking

Feeling loveless

Everything being meaningless

Feeling tired (both physically and mentally)

Not be able to talk or explain

Wanting to cry but cannot be able to cry

Loss of time and space

Not being able to understand what is going on

Being somewhere physically but not mentally

Being fragile and sensitive

...and so on.

So, for my Milestone #1, I tried to understand what these situations mean to me. By this way, the process of deciding is way easier. So “Finalizing researches.” part is the part that I am being certain about them and now I can see what I want to do more clear. 

Then it comes to the part of deciding about the form of the project. I have seen that I want to do lots of things at the same time but I don’t know how to combine them in a more decent way, and after the last feedback that we got, I started to feel certain about the form. I am going to do everything I want, they don’t have to be combined to each other (not like a single piece), but it will be more like an installation exhibition. It will still be like a journey for the ones who will come to our exhibition, but at this time I am planning to use all the elements, objects in different parts of the space. So the visitors will walk towards the pieces as if they were done by different artist, like an exhibition but all the objects/elements/pieces will lead to one single thing: how I feel. Personally, I have started to think that it will be better for me to use all the things because at the end, they will represent me, they will represent who I am.

After the second meeting, I will start doing the model of the project. I have started the market investigation (where to buy the things I want to what price) so that I will know my limits. I have also started thinking about a suitable place for the exhibition because it is important for me to create an atmosphere with the space besides the objects that I am going to use. Now I have started doing sketches for it to be more clear in my mind. :)