Peer review on the ”augmented shadows”

You wrote: <<The children will be really happy and will have a lot of fun by the interaction with the “Augmented Shadows”.>>

How could you be sure about that. Different children have different preferences. It is sensible if you would have written: Our aim is to make children happy and the interaction with the “Augmented Shadows” enjoyable.

You have mentioned some good points regarding congnitive aspects

It's important to not overload users memories with complicated procedures, because our memory has it's limits in remembering. This is very important when the your users are young children. You have also mentioned that <<vivid colours and sounds will make attention easier, rather then written language>>. It will not only make attention easier but also braks the language barrier, thus allowing users with different mother tongues to participate.

Saftiness should always be taken with care specially when small children are involved. It is good that you have mentioned about it, you also have written:<< the environment should not scare the youngsters in any

way.>> I also agree with it, but what I observed at Rudolf steiner, was that: the small girl who approached your installation was afraid to try and explore what it was going on with the bubbles in the wall. There might be several reasons, but one of the reason could be that she was afraid of the number of bubbles that increased suddenly after the interaction with the user or the way it shaped and moved. It may help if you include smileys or other animated shapes that behave in a certain way that small children prefer(you have mentioned about it in the later stages and i think its implementation will increase the number of users). More testing and observation must be done regarding children with younger ages to understand their preferences.

The project aims to stimulate curiosity, learning by experience and exploration within the children from age that ranges from 0 to 12 years. It might be able to do so with the grown up children over the age of six, but the younger children may have problem understanding and learning it. I would therefore recommend to test it with different ages and redefine the age range for these children.

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You have written: <<In the next step, we have generated a potential solution based on the design principles like feedback and consistency. >>

Here you should have mentioned little more on how, what kind of feedback and from whom you get the feedback in detail. Though it is obvious to think that the feedback normally comes from the user, it may come from other types of sources as well. In addition to that, you should have mentioned what kind of feedback are expecting and how it will help rather than to mention just a single one.

It is nice that you have been working with the smallest of details in prototyping. This will not only allow good technical design but will also allow you to understand the need and the requirements better and work accrodingly.

The project aims to stimulate curiosity, learning by experience and exploration within the children from age that ranges from

Mina

2008-11-05

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