Research ideas

In this final project, the idea that inspire from the issues of touchscreen device that cause addiction on kids or toddler. Kids in nowadays taking their touchscreen device wherever they go, therefore touchscreen device has slowly overtaken the traditional toy such as Legos, building blocks, monopoly and so on. 

From the issues, I have done some research. I found that numbers of news and articles has wrote about the issues on the negative and positive impact of touchscreen device on kids. I also found a youtube speakers who is Geekanoids, in a discussion of "Too Young for Tech?"

Here is the video.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmUZ-Px5B88

In this his overall video discussion, touchscreen device that has standing in the middle of negative and positive impact on kids. In the age range around 2-3 years old, toddlers will tend to choose to play their touchscreen device such as tablet more than the regular toy. Educational tools in the touchscreen device that has an advantage of helping kids to learn in a faster pace however it might be an negative impact of keeping them anti socializing and keeping them quiet. Therefore, he suggested that parents should balance up the usage of touchscreen device on their children. 

Besides, I also found that in youtube, parents are proud of posting the videos on their children who is clever on using Ipad application.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMsT4qNA-c

From the video, I have observed the baby is working very well with Ipad application. They have the instinct knowledge on how to control on the interface, by swiping left and right and up and down. 

However, in the research article of Techhive.com, it raise up the reason on why touchscreen device has become more and more popular on kids. The three reason that Mike Elgan has wrote "It's perfect for parents, the "children's culture" industry and kids themselves.". Touchscreen device such as Ipad that as a helping hand for the parent. An Ipad was an ideal of "pacifier" to their children so that they can able to do something else such as driving or making dinner. Parents are more believe in giving them Ipad has more benefits as Ipad has provide many educational application which could let their children learn in faster pace. Therefore, the Ipad will completely change the children culture. The industry itself has more focus on developing on the needs from parents and children.

A chart that in Dailymail.co.uk that has show most of the activities when kids playing on touchscreen device is game. 

It shows that the category of games is higher than among the others. 

Other that, touchscreen has already overtaken the traditional toys and it becomes the primary activities to play. 

Touchscreen device that has cause some negative impact on kids which it will cause them addiction. Kids who are spending too much time on touchscreen that they have lack of manipulation skills. They are failed to build the building blocks.  They will struggle on socialize with the others, causes poor performance at school and lost interest with other activities. 

The 5 4 3 2 1 Poster

From previous lesson , we were asked to research more and locates our ideas in number of context. We have to create an poster with 5 tasks that given by Sweii. 

The poster that locates my final project idea which includes:

• 5 similar things to what you are thinking about - both direct and indirect associations, name them, show their covers, or an image from them, you are saying 'It will be like this....'
• 4 sources of inspiration (music, poetry, film, game, novel) that are in play when you think about this idea
• 3 'heroes' who you associate with the work you are doing
• 2 'theories' that are of relevance
• 1 'issue' you are aware of that will be involved in the making....(skills, knowledge, resources..)

Therefore, I have formed the requirements of the tasks in to the poster below.

Thus, I would like to further elaborate of the sources in the poster. 

I have confirmed to build an interactive storytelling website for my final project. With this direction, I have done further research on some of the interactive storytelling website which I had listed below. With this 5 sources, I am clear with the objective in my final project. 

5 Interactive storytelling website

I) Peugeot Hybrid 4

http://graphicnovel-hybrid4.peugeot.com/start.html

This is an interactive hypercomic website which promotes Peugeot Hybrid 4 with different modes. The transition in this website is parallax in both horizontal and vertical. Other than that, there is some layering effects and minor animation. What makes this website amaze me is, the integrate of the graphics and sound effects. When scroll until some specific part, the sound effects and graphics are synchronize to each other, from that it's attractive to the user.  

II) The Hobbit: Journey through middle earth

http://middle-earth.thehobbit.com/

This is one of the same benchmark as in the previous post. However, some extra points that I would like to add on. This is a storytelling website from the movie of The Hobbit. In this website, user may get to explore further on the middle-earth, get to know more about the places, the stories and characters. In this website, there are 6 locations that user might want to explore, each of the location has different interactivity. From this website, the variaty of interaction and some of the interactivity idea that I would like to pinch to my final project. This is a good benchmark and inspiring website for me however the weakness is, it may takes times to load. 

III) Nawlz

http://www.nawlz.com

This is one of my favorite interactive comic website. Although it's not built in HTML 5 but the interactivity giving me huge inspiration on my final project. This website has innovate a new interaction and giving majestic feedbacks on the transitions and animation. Sound effects are synchronize very well to the illustration. It can be simple interaction such as mouse click and mouse over on the navigation but user are enjoyable. 

IV)Brandongenerator

http://www.brandongenerator.com

This is an interactive website produced by Internet Explorer. In this website, there are 4 episodes, in each of them, user have to solve out the specific problems. What inspire me on this website is, user may explore in a bigger area rather than limit the interactivity.

V)The Wilderness Down Town

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

This is one of the the interactive website with not only stick into one windows but in the meantime of playing the film, the narrative will show through the pop out windows. This is also one of the website that I can learn from it and apply the ideas into my final project. 

Among of the websites, I kind of focus on the interactivity for each of them. I found that, the interactive website tend to focus on more giving feedbacks to the user, it's important that the graphics has to synchronize to the sound effects. With simple navigation such as mouse click, mouse over or scrolling, the feedbacks are what user expect to see. Therefore, in my final project, I hope that the interaction of the website that could helps more into delivering the message and user may appreciate the illustration as well.

4 Sources of inspiration

My inspiration and ideas that come from animation, news, film or social bookmarking site such as Pinterest. Below is 4 of the sources that inspire me on my topic and some explanation on what makes them inspire me.

Image from : http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/08/are-tablet-computers-bad-young-children

First of all, I got my ideas when I was reading some online news. I found that nowadays, kids are playing Ipad everyday. They tend to forgot their physical toy such as building blocks and so on. They taking Ipad whenever they go, however, in conversely back to the old days, kids are crazy on playing physical toy. 

Thus, the one of the greatest animation Toy Story where the kids they always keep their favorite toy beside them and take them go everywhere. Therefore, I will keep this to my next post with the objective of my final project.

Alma, was a creepy animation. The story is about a shop that trapping kids spirit to it's own doll. There is a scene that inspire me when they boy passed by the shop and attracted by the doll which looks like him. What inspire me is the action and the feeling on the appetence of the boy hopes to own the doll and trying to get it no matter what happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titEY3zDKSA

Other sources of inspiration is from Pinterest. From that, it provides different visuals that allow me to collect for my different projects and interests. It's very helpful website to collect the ideas from different aspect.

3 Heroes

YokoFurusho

http://yokofurusho.com/

One of the illustrator that I admire is Yokofurusho. She is a Japanese but raise up at New York. She is a contemporary illustrator and started with professional illustor / artist. She likes to draw details, textures and patterns with ink and acrylics. Therefore, other than that what I love about her is her passionate on her drawing.

Taegan White

http://society6.com/artist/teaganwhite

Other that, I also found another illustrator, Teagan White. She is a designer and illustrator. She intricately detailed in plants and animals, whimsical images for children and expressive typography. Her work is impassioned with unique artstyle, very detailing lines, highlight and shadows.

Alyssa Monks

http://alyssamonks.com/#333_Squid61.jpg#home

Alyssa Monks has very strong in oil painting skills. She is a figurative painter, she paint  humans with blurring the line between abstraction and realism.

 2 Theories

Ted Nelson from Hypertext theory:

“A user interface should be

 so simple that a beginner

 in an emergency can 

understand it within ten seconds.”

Barthes Theory :

“All narratives share similar structure 

but are moulded in different ways”

1 Issue

The issue that I concern about is the technical issue, some of the effect that I might hard to archive and limited sources that I can get through online.

Ideas & Topic

In final project, I would like to concentrate more into interactive website. 

There are two types of website in nowadays, such as HTML 5 based and Flash based. However, what comes with my mind is I would like to push myself further more as in exploring more into HTML 5 with Javascript and Jquery. Other than that, I would like to polish up the skills of illustration. Therefore, at the end, I hope that user may appreciate both of the graphics and interactivity in the final project.

The following are some of the exercise that given by Sweii. We were asked to list down number of context of:

• 3 similar things to what you are thinking about – both direct and indirect associations, name them, show their covers, or an image from them, you are saying ‘It will be like this...’ 

• 2 sources of inspiration (music, poetry, film, game, novel) that are in play when you think about this idea 

• 1 ‘heroes’ who you associate with the work you are doing

Thus, there are 3 'benchmarks' has listed in below.

I) Hello Sour Sally
http://www.hellosoursally.com/

A website that built with Adobe Flash. This is the first frozen yoghurt store in Jakarta.What makes this website inspire me is the illustration and the user interaction(UI). In this website, user may using keyboard or mouse as the controller to control the character (Sally). User might explore all around the website by flying around with the balloon or jumping up by using the slingshot cupcakes. In the meantime of exploring the website, user might collecting the ingredient and achieve information by dropping the character into the cup. What I felt special about this website is the interactions does helps to attract user on the illustration and how the information approach to the user.

II) Panera: Live Consciously 
http://marketing.panerabread.com/liveconsciouslyeatdeliciously/

A website that build with HTML5. This is the website with interactive journey through the world of Panera. In this website, user have to control the lorry to drive and overcome some little obstacles. In the journey of driving, user may achieve information by clicking the specific buttons. What makes this website inspire me is, the immerse of graphic with the creative way of interaction to help the information approach. By using simple interaction and the perfection of the graphic design, user might enjoy it very much. 

III) The Hobbit :The Desolation of Smaug
http://middle-earth.thehobbit.com/

This is an interactive website which having different interaction of telling The Hobbit story. In this website, there are some of the 3D elements, video, vectors and layering effects. What makes me inspire is the sound design which has the beneficial with the graphic and interactivity. As I am one of the user, I would get different achievement while experimenting different type of journey in the website. I couldn't foresee what is the next and keep looking forward. Thus, this website is enjoyable.

Extra ) Ruthless Spartans vs Cuddly Hipsters
http://epic.net/mmxiv/

I found another extra benchmark which this is interactive game website that build with HTML5. In this website, to play the game, user might able to choose the controller either mobile phone or keyboard. The aim of this website is to attack the "hipster" as many as you can. What makes me inspire from this website is, by using simple interaction moving the character around and attack on the hipster that actually gain a lot of excitement and tension to the user.

Through this severals interactive website that acknowledge me and giving me some inspiration on how interactivity helps to develop better understanding in content. From that, different website has different ways to approach to the user. 

By inspiring of the website above, I would like to list out the initial ideas for my final project in below.

Topic 1 : Issue - Rubbish/ Pollution/ Eco-Friendly/Water resources/Green technology

Topic 2: Storytelling

Topic 3: Game

In this stage, I still confusing on choosing the final ideas for my final project. Below are some of the inspiration sources.

Inspiration sources:

Some of my inspiration will get from online videos such as vimeo or youtube. Below is one of the interesting video animation name Tom Fun Orchestra - Bottom of the River. This video animation has inspire me on Topic 1 which about the pollution of rubbish in the river.

https://vimeo.com/6946165

Other than that, some of my inspiration sources that comes from reading online news and website feeds. I found surfing Pinterest that could gain a lot of ideas and inspiration.

Heroes :
Illustrator that I admire - Yokofurusho
http://yokofurusho.com/

What makes her to become my hero is, she is the one of the artist that can paint in very detail. She has full of imagination, she can paint directly of what she is thinking. I am admiring her patient and her unique artstyle.