#clientproject3

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Moodboard for the future of transportation

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Creating moodboards for the video shoot

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Vignette 4: Who is your bike? (Character)

Lisa just got a new job and is moving abroad. She owns his bike called Arvin, that he used for daily commute to work. Since she cannot take it with him abroad and the new city is not very suitable for cycling he had to make the tough decision and put his bike up for adoption. In order to do that she had to fill in an extensive online questionnaire on the marketplace to describe the bike and its personality. Once the add is online she gets a weird feeling in his stomach. She is worried that he made a mistake by selling the bike, or that he did not manage to describe the bike’ s personality properly. Shee is sad but there is no other way than to sell the bike.

A couple of days later she receives a message that a guy called Jonathan is interested in buying the bike. After talking to each other the deal is made and Jonathan comes to Lisa’s place to pick up his new bike companion. Jonathan anticipates that there will be a few days in the beginning when he and the bike will have to get used to each other. However, it seems to be more complicated than he thought. It seems like the bike is way more conservative than what Lisa described to him. The bike’s worldview is very much influenced by his previous experience.

One night Jonathan goes to a birthday party of his best friend. He is having a really nice evening when all of the sudden he starts getting notifications from his bike that he should go home. Jonathan is surprised: “What is happening, it is just 11:30!” He looks out of the window down to his bike, to figure out whats wrong but everything seems to be fine. A minute later, Jonathan gets a theft alarm notification that Arvin is being moved! He runs outside only to see his bike have he left it. Jonathan checks the bike and understands the bike wants to go home. He’s upset with the bike but they compromise on going home early.

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Raw cutting the video footage from yesterday

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Andrew Keen's view on AI and agency

Andrew Keen on how to fix the future: “AI challenges our agency. How do we define ourselves and our agency in this new world? Having agency is what makes us human- it distinguishes us from machines..”

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Inspiration for client project concept deliverable: Superflux

http://superflux.in/index.php/work/mantissystems/#

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Finalising concept introduction, brainstorming bike name. Discussing our concept and beginning ideating about vignettes for the concept video

While working on sharpening the concept (formerly called wellbeing bike) that was selected after the round of validation with users, client and experts we had to come up with a name for our bike that would fit the concept vision and idea. After mind-mapping of keywords connected to the concept idea, we came up with Y.O.L.O. bike. The shortcut stands for Your online leads to offline. With the name, we wanted to point to the fact that in the future bike will be the only mean of transportation that will make people still present at the moment and focused on the ride. Having the concept description we began brainstorming ideas for separate vignettes (personal scenario snippets for our concept video). Ideally, we would like to use these as examples and from them extrapolate insights that could be used by the client in their further research.

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Team session where we were ‘shooting’ our client concept in order to make improvements

looking into the selected concept, we were reviewing the comments from our clients and trying to improve and add more details to the concept. Throughout the discussion, we have realized that we also want to put more emphasis on the social aspect of biking and the possibility of little personal interactions while biking. Reminded by recent news about Google launching wellbeing initiative meant to temper the negative effects tech can have on our daily lives( https://thenextweb.com/google/2018/05/08/google-digital-well-being/). This further supported our shift from solely well being to wellbeing as the outcome of being disconnected, finding a balance between online and offline and user’s mood. 

Further, inspired by nature and flock behaviors, we adapted several phenomena like organic flow, migration or mutual assistance to help to strengthen sense of community

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Working further on the concepts

We have begun with looking into concepts that we have created during the workshop with Maria Lucce Lupetti. Then we have tried to add more details by brainstorming separate ideas that we can add to each of the concepts and we kept passing the paper around the table. Therefore each of us added more ideas to every one of the 4 concepts.  Having more additional details for each concept we went one by one and clustered and assessed the ideas. Then we have picked the ones that are strongly connected to the communication and we began to write them down on the board together with the data that is needed and what kind of feedback it will be using and probably how could it look like.

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Analysing the lab research data

We were analyzing the data using factorial ANOVA. Firstly, we did two factorial ANOVAS for a cluster of questions for overall reliability and cluster of questions for overall distraction. Later, we have realized that we actually need 3 clusters and we have taken data for a question about pleasantness and made it into a separate cluster. We have also run the MANOVA using all separate questions. When we saw the data we realized that there is something wrong. The combination of visual&haptic feedback was coming out as being the most distracting, while we knew from the test day it was not really true, only then we saw a mistake we did with the mean score scale, which was inverted (used negative) for the question about distraction. Therefore we had to correct the data in the data-sheet and invert the values for that particular question and run the analysis again.  Overall, the analysis confirmed that the combination of visual&haptic feedback seems to be working the best.

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Inspiration

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Lab research video summary

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Creating vibration handlebars low-fidelity prototype for lab research

The biggest challenge we have been facing with this prototype is the placement of vibration module. Since we don't have the encapsulated version of the motos, we have to be careful where to place it to not stop the motor with the cyclist pressing against the handlebars. The placement of vibration module is also important in terms of the spread of the vibrations through the material and making sure they will be significant to the cyclist (that he/she will be able to feel them while biking). We could see this form of feedback working in the smrtGRiPS (https://popupcity.net/never-get-lost-in-a-city-again-with-these-vibrating-bike-handlebars/), however, we are working on more low-key prototype version and our execution can possibly work against us in the lab research.

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Preparing a questionnaire for the lab research

The questionnaire uses means scores on which test participants have to indicate their experience during the test bike ride.

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Preparing for testing

Making the promotional materials to attract people to join the research. :)

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Ideation workshop about autonomous bikes