Week 8
16/11/07
The first thing that I worked on at the beginning of week 8 was the film analysis. As explained in week 7 I will be analysing the film Hero. From watching the film it was clear to see that colour was a very important aspect to this film. It tells different stories and uses colours to emphasize the emotion being portrayed. For example it uses the colour red for the story about love and passion. There is a document that I have written in the appendix of the design document.
The next phase of work was to start writing the first draft of the design document. The first chapter that I wrote was the Questionnaires. This is a short section explaining that we will have a pre test questionnaire so that participant’s profiles could be gathered before the testing phase commences. The next chapter that I wrote was the testing phase. This section explains the testing procedure that the team will be using when we start testing. The final section that I wrote was the data analysis chapter. This chapter explains how we will be gathering our results from the testing phase. The team wrote all their sections over 3 days, so that at the beginning of week 8 the documents could be edited together and ready for the Thursday meeting with the supervisors.
After the Thursday meeting with the supervisors we had a meeting with Dr John Charlton (See team blog for more details). A very important point came out of this meeting. The Geneva Appraisal Questionnaire (GAQ) system that we planned on using is not entirely suitable for collecting data for the emotion felt when changing colour, it was suggested that we should look for a questionnaire about the psychology of colour that would fit in with our project or we could monitor the heart rate of the participants to look for a change in their emotional state. After this meeting I carried out some research, looking into using the heart rate method of collecting data. I read through ‘The effects of sound and colour on responses to a computer game’
16/11/07
The first thing that I worked on at the beginning of week 8 was the film analysis. As explained in week 7 I will be analysing the film Hero. From watching the film it was clear to see that colour was a very important aspect to this film. It tells different stories and uses colours to emphasize the emotion being portrayed. For example it uses the colour red for the story about love and passion. There is a document that I have written in the appendix of the design document.
The next phase of work was to start writing the first draft of the design document. The first chapter that I wrote was the Questionnaires. This is a short section explaining that we will have a pre test questionnaire so that participant’s profiles could be gathered before the testing phase commences. The next chapter that I wrote was the testing phase. This section explains the testing procedure that the team will be using when we start testing. The final section that I wrote was the data analysis chapter. This chapter explains how we will be gathering our results from the testing phase. The team wrote all their sections over 3 days, so that at the beginning of week 8 the documents could be edited together and ready for the Thursday meeting with the supervisors.
After the Thursday meeting with the supervisors we had a meeting with Dr John Charlton (See team blog for more details). A very important point came out of this meeting. The Geneva Appraisal Questionnaire (GAQ) system that we planned on using is not entirely suitable for collecting data for the emotion felt when changing colour, it was suggested that we should look for a questionnaire about the psychology of colour that would fit in with our project or we could monitor the heart rate of the participants to look for a change in their emotional state. After this meeting I carried out some research, looking into using the heart rate method of collecting data. I read through ‘The effects of sound and colour on responses to a computer game’
This document used the heart rate monitoring method to look for the effects of colour change in a computer game. Along with this document I read through ‘Development of an emotion – responsive colour adaptation process for the interactive virtual building model’ which was found by Phil. This document gave us the evidence that colour change induces a Physiological change and this can be monitored using the heart rate. After this research was carried out I wrote a new draft proposal for the new method of testing. Once this new method is accepted by the team and the supervisors are happy with our new testing method I will rewrite the testing phase of the design document.
For the next week I will be continuing to research the new method of testing and helping the team finish the design document. Additionally, I will be helping the team start the presentation work ready for the first milestone.
For the next week I will be continuing to research the new method of testing and helping the team finish the design document. Additionally, I will be helping the team start the presentation work ready for the first milestone.
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