To understand the way User Interfaces can adapt and accomodate for some of the unconventional things we as humans can end up doing. We were to concentrate more on setting up the escenario than the visual representation of the ideas.
Design Research, Storytelling, Digital Prototyping and Visual Design
Solo project with the guidance of Prof. Graham Plumb and Prof. Sasha H. Cronin
Starting with the Plutchik's wheel of emotions we were to choose a particular spectrum with which we would then create a scenario. Creating the scenario I wanted it to show the touchpoints where I would get the maximum responce from my audience, which in this case are my classmates.
The use of color played out really well to convey the emotional state the phone is in and anticipate the kind of response you would get for your actions. In an ideal world, the UI would have much more complex emotions which might make the use of color challenging. i wanted t ouse Googles material design as inspiraton for the visual style in an android operating system.
For me personally, I loved playing the part of the emotional AI assistant in the UI. It gives me ideas for futute UI to personalize your phone according to a certain personality. Seeing this play in terms of voice interfaces and chatbots of the future is something that I take away from this project.
The project exposed me to the process of connecting emotional states of the user with the types of interactions they might take at that point. It also pointed towards my interest for A.I technologies and how they can be a part of out regular usage of smartphones.