Midterm Project Reflection

Reflecting on how our project went, I think we tried to do something that may had been more than we could do even in the span of this class. We were to track movements and the code that I would look like would involve super difficult math equations and such. This being said, the technology really controlled the outcome of our project. The project we came up with was more of a prototype for something better in the future. We literally got the technology working 50% of the time two nights before we had critique. It was so nerve wracking cause we won't even sure that the glove would work on critique day.

Now onto the actually critique. It went much better than I had expected. People in class felt there was a performative aspect to our project which i totally agree with and would love to play with more in a future aspect. Some critique of the project was the inaccuracy and frustation that kind of come with using the glove. Once again, the technology had a lot to do with this, but we were giving some really great tips on how to make the experience better. For instance, it was suggestion to make a wireless set of gloves so two people could talk and their conservation would be recorded through image on the screen. I really liked this idea and in an ideal situation the gloves would be this way.

Another critique we had was creating an engaging conversation so we could get people to actually talk instead of waving their hands around. We really didn't consider this aspect especially since we only had one glove, but it is something that we would consider if we did go back and work on this.

Another thing that really wasn't really commented on but kind of bugged me was the visual of the project. I was imaging having a webcam image of the people in the background and the screen would be recording and the movement would be drawn over the people's webcam video. This what I had ideally imagined and I was disappointed with what the visual ended up being.

Overall, for a first critique in Sensors, I thought we did pretty well considering.