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  • Chapter 8 – Thorny Road Ahead

    Week 8: March 13, 2023 – March 19, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: We are back to work on the project after a week of spring break, we have received a lot of feedback from the professors (about our half presentation), and it seems we have a lot of work…

  • Chapter 7 – Halftime performance

    Week 7: February 27, 2023 – March 4, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: On Monday, we went to Highland Elementary School to conduct a PPT-based storytelling playtest for the first graders, which was very well received by the children. And after the playtest, we had a roundtable discussion with the…

  • Chapter 6 – No Signal Place

    Week 6: February 20, 2023 – February 26, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: This week we went to the museum lab to test the promethean performance and system. Then we tested the user feedback on two tutorials we wrote (background removal AI and sound editing tools). The first process grade…

  • Chapter 5 – Through the Looking Glass

    Week 5: February 13, 2023 – February 19, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: This week our overall project progress is Promising, everything is on track and the direction is clearer, we finished the final design of half sheet and poster, iterated the UI design and connected the UI framework in…

  • Chapter 4 – Interstellar Visitor

    Week 4: February 6, 2023 – February 12, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: This week Anthony Daniels come to our project room to discuss at-length the idea of a magic book/portal to another world. After meeting with the client, we decided to focus our storytelling direction on 2D, relatively simple…

  • Chapter 3 – A Tale of Two Audiences

    Week 3: January 29, 2023 – February 4, 2023 Blog entry by Lauren Platt Summary of the week: This week our team visited both the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and MuseumLab, exploring the site for our project and observing how guests interact with the space. We presented and discussed our work so far with ETC…

  • Chapter 2 – The Reading Rainbow

    Week 2: January 22, 2023 – January 28, 2023 Blog entry by Lori Kipp Summary of the week: This week, our team attended the Composition Box Workshop, creating a poster summarizing the main ideas and goals of our project and getting feedback from classmates. We did work on our website and logos. We also set…

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