I never realised how important are these coaching session, until now. Having someone to guide you and give you feedback and critique that can only inspire you to work harder can be priceless. Meeting with Jens today, was very helpful for rhe progress of our project.
Even though we presented the same old ideas, that were not best neither were working with the presented script, we got the guide that was important to us to focus on the things that might work. The questions presented were how to look at them in different light? How exactly are we supposed to present the feedback while working with coping? How to showcase an continues activity without getting away from the topic?
In today’s coaching session we mostly spoke about what kind of feedback are we supposed to present. Jens explained that instead of being an output feedback it should be a type of feedback that represents an activity or amount of something. For example during the introductory lecture Clint gave this example of showcasing the amount of memory on a computer disk. Instead of stopping what are we doing and checking we can just see it visually.
We spoke about walking as an activity that is being done without much thought put into it. For example presenting the speed of someone’s walk or presenting if they walk or run. How can we recognise the differences and present them in a visual form. Through the talk about speed and such we went back on a previously mentioned topic. Typing
As previously mentioned, one of the first ideas we worked with was with typing detection and the presenting the way we type. Since typing on a computer can be seen as a continues activity, Jens asked if we looked how to present the typing speed maybe or even work with the buttons that are pressed. For example present feedback if we type faster then slow. Inspired by the metronome, he also suggested that having visual can help you keep up a tempo that will make you write more or less depending.
Understanding the topic and being inspired led us to brainstorming ways we can use the keyboard and the typing speed to present visual feedback of an activity.
Pink Prototyping 