Game | Crystal Cave — Game Metadata Game Name: Crystal Cave Designer/Developer: Field Day Lab Platform: Online game, browser-based High-level Instructional Goal: To teach students in grades 5–8 how crystals form at the molecular level, to make crystal structures from atoms. Link to the game: https://theyardgames.org/game/crystal.html Learning Objectives Crystal Cave teaches players how to make ordered and stable crystal…

Game | SPENT — Game Metadata Game Name: SPENT Designer/Developer: McKinney, Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD) Platform: Online game, browser-based High-level Instructional Goal: To raise awareness about poverty and homelessness. To educate players on how decisions made in employment, housing, medical costs, and other expenses can impact the income and home budget. Link to the game…

04/11 Refine concepts & narratives 🌹Rose: Narrowed down to 2 ideas, prepared for speed dating Impressed with how quickly we put together storyboards, quickly organized Feedback from Sofia & Hajira Asynchronous feedback & join SC FB groups 🌱Bud: Wonder how testing would be Interested to put everything together, audio & survey Continue iterating our concepts …

03/14 Sunday 🌹Rose: Put together a presentation Enjoy Hillary Carey’s lecture Made progress in ideation A good balance of secondary and primary research 🌱Bud: Begin generating ideas Get something down for design principles, keep affinity mapping & sorting Ideation process Need time to dive into some reports 🌵Thorn: Hard to find time…

Documentation for IxD Studio II — In this stage, the class will work in teams to conduct their research according to the plan developed in stage 1. Each team will be expected to conduct immersive field research. 02/14: Mapping future trends We kicked off today’s group meeting with sharing weekly rose, bud, and thorn: 🌹Rose(GOOD): Trust of each other in…

Week three of our IxD project on remote collaboration — High-level insights from research We also did wide-ranging secondary research into the space. High level insights include: Group exercise promotes motivation to complete workouts; remote exercise is less socially engaging Correcting form is more difficult over remote because students cannot be observed in three dimensional space Verbal feedback is less helpful when newcomers become…

CMU Communication Design Studio Documentation Week 1 — 11/10/2020 For this project, we were each assigned to a dataset and the existing data visualization to explore. …

CMU Communication Design Studio Documentation Week 1– Session 1 9/29/2020 The 2nd project in our Communication Design Studio is called Making the Abstract Concrete, which is an individual project. Everyone most likely has encountered information that was difficult to grasp, including things that quite large or small, things that quite fast or slow, things…

Week 1 —Overview 09/01/2020 Activity 1 — wind-up toys In the first online session of this course, we spent the first hour playing with wind-up toys. Our instructor, Stacie Rohrbach, associate professor and director of Graduate Studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Design, showed us a collection of 15 wind-up toys. …