Coaching #1

Today we had coaching with Clint. During the coaching session we presented our sketches and the brainstorming ideas we had so far.

The presentation of the ideas, did not go well. They were mostly incomplete or were missing the point of the project. Based on Clint’s feedback they were lacking of answers for few questions. What exactly are we trying to achieve when working on them? What is that makes us curious about finding out things from the experiments? What is the feedback and the feedforward in it? Clint’s suggestion was to dig deeper into questioning the ideas itself. For example for our first idea with the finger movement and the typing, we can ask ourselves how exactly would it feel to pull a finder on that said string that connects the servo and them. To try making few quick and easy prototypes where we would explore the usage of different materials as strings and so on.

As regards of the second idea, he advised us to try finding a way to make the servo to afford feedback or feedforward rather than being used as an input. The servo motor we thought we might be able to use, requires force to be moved and it is more mechanical rather than being used as an data entry piece. The following questions should be discussed more in the following days. How can we present continues feedback of an activity? How can the servo be implemented in the project as an output rather than input.

Clint also suggested, to find a concrete thing or situation that we can create for with all of its surrounding elements. This is not a project where we are supposed to create a solution for a certain person, but rather we should focus on finding a problem with complexity and explore it.