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Reflection 8/04/18

After I changed my outcome from animation to game I think this is a good decision because it also helped me know better about my purpose of this project, which is let people interact face to face and then reduce their time on their phone. I think it doesn’t need to be really difficult content to reach the purpose, sometimes the easy way--asking questions will be the most direct and easy way to communicate with each other. The questions cards will give people more topics to talk about and there are ranges of style questions so I think everyone will have something they interested in to talk about.

However, I was wondering I could consider more about the content of the rules or the questions to make it more interesting to play. Also for the package design I think I could use prime colours or contrast colour to make it pop up and looks more playful.

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FINAL OUTCOME- RULES OF INTERACTION

This is the final outcome of the game, the content is using those questions to start up a topic for communication and the small cards are the ‘rules’ that people need to follow when they are communicating.

Share your stories

Be a good listener

Look at each other.

These rules are simple but I think this is how to communicate heart to heart and by looking each other face we could know their feeling directly. I think we should take some break from the social media and communicates more in the real life this could gives us more emotional and direct feeling and this should be how we people communicate.

In the questions there are mixture of different types of game that I think will let different types of teenagers/ young adult get interested in. Some of the questions are asking their deep feeling and can help us know each other more, this is unlike the social media let us hide behind the screen. This let us see the actual feeling and sometimes it is good to be real and express ourself.

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CHARACTER DESIGNS

For the illustration I designed to only use faces to show the face to face communications and I used different pen to draw and it creates different texture and the colour also affected the expression of the faces. I had tried to used continuous line drawing and also simple outline of the face.

From all these colours I think the mint colour looks the best and refreshing and the first one with bright colour as the outcome will pop up the faces. Then as I sketches more faces I feel like making them in blue colour tone.

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PLAN Designs

These are the experimentations of the packaging for the game, I tired with different shape and composition and then decided to use the top-right-corner one because it is easy to carry and it will looks like a book so that I can put the game cards in it as it is the content of the book to read.

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CARD DESIGN

I had designed several outcomes and decided to use the mint colour (left side)I think this colour is refreshing and with the combination of other colours will looks pop up. I used the simple design so people will be more focus on the words.

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Reflection 08/03/18

After the second presentation I’m more clear about what I am going to do next.  We discuss about several ideas that I can start to do which are design posters on the phone to show that how we are antisocial by only making interaction with others on the social media but not in person. Also they suggested me to make different form of distraction to show how people distract by their phone when they are having conversation, the notification of the phone will makes them check their phone immediately. Also I should do more abstract research on the ‘distraction’, ‘attraction’, ‘resistant’ as the concepts to make it visual with different materials such as magnet to represent these concepts.

Also I can make posters on the ground, table and phone to make people distract from it and especially when people are having meal we will like to read something and making things that are not in the normal place will grab their attention so I think I should try out these ideas.

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Artist inspirations- Seymour Chwast

I think his style is unique and humours which I would like to use it for the package design for my product. I think the colour contrast and the facial expression makes the drawing looks funny and also shows the two sides of this film star- Roscoe Arbuckle. I will chose the colour that is pop up and eye catchy to makes people rememberable.

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Reflection 17/03/18

As I'm working further I decide to make a game which can let people have more communication. I think this is much more effective than animation because animation is just about receiving the information but it will forget immediately and this can’t change their behaviour also when I interviewed they said they all have the awareness to reduce their time the phone but they just can’t stop to check their phone.

As i’m working further, I'm thinking what will makes people interact together and not using their phone and I think making a game will makes people interact and have communication. Also this is be much more effective than just showing them animation because playing game can let them interact but animation is just receiving information and won’t let them change anything so I’m going to change my outcome into a game that people can have conversation together. 

People use their phone even though they are with friends is because they found it is boring or get distracted by their phone and this is because they find phone are more interesting than the people next to us.

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Reflection 16/03/18

As i’m working further, I'm thinking what will makes people interact together and not using their phone and I think making a game will be good to interact because the ‘rules’ will keep them follow and it will be interesting than just having conversation. If there is rule in the interaction then they will need to follow. Just like in the cinema, we all know to turn off the phone and while talking to other we need to listen to them so those kind of invisible rules has change them which I think I will need to make some rules to stop people use their phone when they are on the table.

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OBSERVATION

These are some photos I took that shows how often those people use their phone and even when they are with their friends an family they keep looking at their phone. Also the girl from the second photo she used her phone all the time since she sit down and also while she is having meal with her friend and so does her friend. I was shocked from this situation because they have zero conversation at all, the only conversation they had is when they are ordering food. The third photo are two married couples, they use their phone only when they are waiting their food and after they finish their meal, I think they already married for many years and see each other everyday so they don’t have much conversation.

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INSPIRATIONS

This is the poster from Tokyo public transportation about the public manner, which I found this style humours eye catchy which I had get inspired and try to make poster or illustration from the facts that I found interesting from the observation and interview I had done. I’m going to start to make some physical thing and make some quantities of work and make development from it.

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MESSY MONDAY 13/03/18

I had chose ‘something never end’, ‘allergies’ and ‘reflected light’ to make different outcome for this project. Those outcomes that I produced are abstract and from this activities I came up with several ideas and this has inspired me to not only work in the sketchbook but also making quantities of things to gather different ideas.

‘Something never end’ shows the endless messages from the social media which will continuously updated and have new thing when we are rolling our phone. The different colours represent the diversity of the information in the social media and I sticked a longer paper together and make it into infinite shape to show ‘something never end’.

I chose ‘Allergies’ was because when we are allergic to something we won’t touch it so I was hoping that people will reduce their time on their phone by noticing this is not good for us in the conversation. I used the red taped to shows that something is ‘danger/ untouchable’, also when people sees it they will know it’s something need to be noticed of.

‘Reflected light’ represent the notification on the phone, when our phone has the notification we will check our phone immediately and this has become our habit and could know as we are addicted to it. When this work is putting under the light it will has the reflection and from this work I think it could show how addicted we are to our phone.

From those works now I'm thinking to continue make quantities of work.  I think I will need to try to use different materials and technique to make things that will ‘distract’/ ‘attract’/ ‘resist’ others. From the messy Monday project I had tried to used tape and plastic which I think it looks nice and the red tape does grab others attention and the plastic does look like the reflection from the phone so I think I will need to do more experiment and making quantities of work to have more ideas.

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INTERVIEW 01/03/18

Interview Questions: (When you are with friends...)

1. Why do you check your phone?

2. Are you the first person to use the phone?

3. Do you get bother if other people use their phone while you are talking? Why?

4. When you are friends do you have the awareness to stop using your phone, how?

I had done this interview with people from different country and gender. Then I found out that most people check their phone with no reasons and this has become their habit and sometimes is because they feel awkward and boring (no conversation going on). Also there are people who don't use their phone at all, they think when they are with friends they should concentrate on them.

Also I found when other people starts to use phone it gives “privilege” to others to others to use their phone. 

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Reflection 01/03/18

Today I had a group tutorial and this has clear my mind on what I can do next. We had discussed about the reasons we use our phone and the situation around us. 

From the group tutorial I found that lots of people use their phone with no reasons and this has become their habit on checking their phone. Also in the public transportation we will use our phone or read books or newspaper to avoid eye contact. From the psychological reason is because making eye contact will makes us feel insecure and feel like other people is entering and violate our safety zone so they will tend to look at other stuff to avoid the awkward situation.

The plan for now is do some interviews and go out to do observations of how other people interact and see how long it takes them to check their phone and what kind of conversation they have and guess what their job and relationship to get more information. I will do more primary research by taking photographs and note down what I found. Also I think I will need to do some contextual research on designers/ artist and get some inspirations on what kind of work I can produce.

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Reflection 28/02/18

From the researches I've done, I found out that people spend most of their time on their phone and no matter what they are doing, they will have the habit on keep checking their phone and when we are on the table with our friends or family they barely talk to each other and instead, they will keep looking at their screen which has become a social phenomenon especially in the metropolis places.

As I’m doing this project, I became lost on what the final outcome will look like. At first, I was planning to make an animation to make awareness to people stop using their phone and hide behind those social media app and instead interact with each other in the real life. However, I found out animation is only let people receiving the information and it won’t make any actual changes because we all know to reduce the time on the phone but we just have the habit in checking our phone.

This has let me lost what kind of work I should produce to let people interact more in the real life so I think I need to brainstorm again and do more psychological researches about human behaviour and social interaction and in the group tutorial get some feedback on how I can start with. 

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RESEARCH 27/02/18

From my research about how much time do people spend on their phone in 2017 it shows that people use smartphone mostly for communication and our communication has replace by social media apps. We spend more than four hours a day, which has almost “all the time”. The problem for now is to let people stop using their phone while they are with others. Phone should only use when we are apart. We need to enjoy the moment with our friends and family by interacting in real life and not just spending our time on the screen.

Even though smart phone has convince our life and might help us communicate more from those social media apps; chatting, posting pictures, commenting, etc, but this shouldn’t be the way stopping us communicate in the real life. When we are face to face we can see their emotion and feel each other and understand better instead of just seeing the words from the screen.

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RESEARCH 18/02/18

I had watched several TED talk and one of it called “ Why our screen makes us less happy” by Adam Alter, this has inspired me in nowadays life. In this video he said that thing makes us happy are the thing can be stop, such as relaxation, exercise, reading and so on, but the things makes us unhappy are social networking, news, web browsing things that will keep updating and makes us keep rolling the pages. Therefore, he suggested us to reduce time on our phone and do something that makes us happy and healthier and in the suggestion he said we should get use to it and maybe turn our phone into airplane mode and don’t use our phone on the table. Also the most important thing is to get use to it and make it into a habit. From the other research I found out it takes about 66 days for a habit to become ingrained and 254 days for a new habit to become second nature, the most important thing is make it consistence and knowing that it might be hard at the first so we need to put more effort and dedication into it.

I think sometimes is the habit that makes us use our phone in no reasons and because we spend more time with our phone then other people in our day so when we are avoiding eye contact or feeling awkward or boring we will use our phone.