{"id":402,"date":"2023-02-22T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/story-studio\/?p=402"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:38:30","slug":"chapter-5-lost-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/story-studio\/chapter-5-lost-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5 – Through the Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Week 5: <\/i>February <\/em>13, 2023 – February 19, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blog entry by Damian Xie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 the engine for the first time. In addition, we worked on the different Arduino sensors, and then Steve gave us a link to the audio library, where we started trying to find available audio content and organize it. Sadly, this week Lori got COVID and started a home quarantine, but we’re still working hard to keep things moving forward.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Logo and half sheet final version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s great that we finally have the final version of the poster and half sheet, which has now been sent to the school for printing, and we’re really looking forward to the final product!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our beautiful poster! Thanks to Randi’s hard work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Half sheet final version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New version UI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felicia conducted an overall iteration of the existing UI based on the last interface playtest, which was designed to make the existing interface simpler and easier to understand, and to make the visual aspects of each function more prominent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We can clearly see that the first version of the UI design tries to put all the functional interfaces on the same plane space, which makes the user may feel overwhelmed, and the dense amount of information also makes the focus of the whole tool is not clear.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The revamped interface looks significantly fresher and cleaner, with a higher visual finish, while readability and functional clarity have become better.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The completion of the UI framework built in Unity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire UI structure framework of the tool is built in unity, so we have a basic prototype that can be used for future functional testing, and we can finally stop playtesting with paper prototypes. (The entire structural framework of the UI is completed in unity, and you can start using the full version of the software features in future user testing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n