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Modelling Process

MyPet is a game based mobile application which combines distraction and breathing retraining approach to divert and calm child patients who aged under 14  from medical anxiety in hospital. The purpose of this application is to improve their medical experience. MyPet can help these children feel calmer who are experiencing anxiety, panic and fears in medical procedures through playing.

MyPet alternates breathing training into several game tasks to attract and communicate with children. In order to collect different pets and properties in MyPet, children need to complete breath training tasks to earn rewards. The games are designed short and simple for young children to play in limited medical visiting time. 

This document includes the theories behind MyPet, paper prototype test, character design, property design, game environment design, interface design and reflections as my submission for the final requirement in obtaining a Master of Creative Industries (Interactive and Visual Design) from Queensland University of Technology.

This is Tactile Reader booklist page. We have various ranges of story books and comics for the blind children to read. We using the protagonist from each stories for children to recognize different stories. We also have braille and voice to guide them.

As a member of Tactile Reader group, I contribute to the following points:

1.  Organzing group works

2. Shot the videos (especially the environment part and the little gril’s part)

3.  Help record the group progress

4. Research for the proplem area (especially the articles for blind children’s vision need) 

5. I design the Tactile Reader icon and the loading page

6. I make the the interactive part on the picture through FLASH 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8waABnVe21M

7. I did some background researchs to answer these questions:

Do the visual impaired children need to read picture books?

How do they read? (Blind can visualize images by touch sensation)

What are the supporting technologies? (tactile screen)

8. I design the video prototype

9. I edit the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzAEKwR39U

10. I participate on designing the booklist page

These are the main works I contribute. I am very happy that I can work on this project with my lovely group members. As a creative practitioner in interactive design area, I really concer about designing the apps which can really help people. I really interest in changing impossibility to possibility. Therefore, the Tactile Reader exist. Designing for the people who seeks help really encourage me. Although I don’t come from interactive design background, I’ve tried my best to design the app. I see my big improvement this semester. I’ve learned a lot from Debra in the class. I feel very lucky to study from her.

Tactile Reader is a development based on Tactile painter, because it is more perfect. We did more researches, especially on the blind children psychology and behavior part. We consider children’s activity, interests, behavior and guiding approaches. We even consider children’s patience and the way to catch their attentions while they are using this app.  This is an achievement of Tactile Reader. This is because we not only design the interfaces, we also think the users feeling and experience in depth.

While doing this project, I also did several achivement myself. My first making icon, first designing the interfaces, first designing as an UI/UX designer and first working in a group as a leader.

This is the prototype for tactile reader introducing video.

These scenes tell the story of blind children’s visual world. The only pattern and image they get from outside world is based on these dull dots.

Although they are able to hear the voices from outside world, it is still not enough.

Their lives are just like yours and mine, but without images. Although other people tell them how’s everything looks like, they still don’t get it.

In addition, it is also impossible for them to experience the digital world. They seek equal opportunities to read, to watch the pictures, comics and animations like the other child. They want to know more about this world.

There is one way for them to watch these images-- by touch. Blinds are able to visualize the images in their brains by touch the tactile images.

That’s why Tactile Reader exist. Tactile Reader is a smart, electronic tool, which offers visual experiences to blind children by electronic tactile screen. It also has voice guide and voice interaction to help these children engage in the 2D world. It has various ranges of images such as cartoon, story book, comics and animate story, for blind children to read.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzAEKwR39U)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBkfN5HbS8) 

This is the loading page of Tactile Reader. On this page we are not only use the tactile icon but also use the braille to lead the user.

We are not going to use profile in this application due to the complexity for a blind children. Therefore, the reading history and book preference data will derictly save in the devices.  The devices (tactile device) itself will save all these data.