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Our Ideation Phase
Our Ideation Phase
What does Ideate mean?
The ideate phase is when you generate possible solutions to your challenge.
Then you decide on the idea you will prototype.
Our Top 3 Ideas
Idea 1 - A graphic novel symbolizing what people go through with certain disabilities/diseases. A competition will go alongside this where people from our school are able to create an informational poster about a chosen disability/disease from a list we will provide that will feature at the end of the graphic novel explaining what each section of the graphic novel will be about.
Idea 2 - A VR/AR experience where users are able to experience what it is like and where they complete challenges to get to future stages and at the end, a quiz will appear to see if they learned anything and if they achieve good results they can win chocolate or a different small award.
Idea 3 - Our last main idea is a 3D interactive sculpture that has pop/pull-out information to teach people about what invisible disabilities and diseases are. AS this is a physical item it will be interesting and impactful for users to touch and gold.
Final chosen idea- Our final solution idea that would help make a positive impact towards solving this issue within the community is to raise awareness by creating a graphic novel. Our graphic novel will have inspiring stories of everyday people and their everyday experiences with an invisible disability. Our aim is to make the readers and audience emphasise with the people in the book as we spread awareness about this issue. Many people with an invisible disability are quite afraid because people don't believe that they have this condition. An example of this would be when an employee with scoliosis has a really sore back in the morning and they need rest, however, they have to go to work and can't pull in sick without a medical certificate. This obstacle can cause many problems in the future. Our aim is to make it easier for people with this everyday problem. Our goal is to inform people about invisible disabilities so that people take into consideration that there is such a thing and there are many people with them.
The digital twist we have added to our idea is that is the back of the book we are going to add an AR experience QR code. Upon scanning the QR code they will be taken to a digital AR experience where they will see an online version of the book.
Prototype
In class basic prototype
Story Board for the Graphic Novel
Graphic Novel- Planning Process
Through the process of brainstorming and looking at each other’s ideas, we decided on what we wanted to do and focused on our final solution.
Through the process of brainstorming and looking at each other’s ideas, we decided on what we wanted to do and focused on our final solution.
Our solution will impact this problem in a positive way by raising awareness about this problem. We will inform people that you do not need to see the disability in order for it to be real. It can be invisible.
Our solution will impact this problem in a positive way by raising awareness about this problem. We will inform people that you do not need to see the disability in order for it to be real. It can be invisible.
We are going to be creating a graphic novel that has 6 chapters, each focusing on a different invisible disability. Each chapter will follow its own storyline, trying to provoke empathy in our readers and educate them on the common things these people go through on a daily basis. We will be creating the graphic novel as individual pages on Estelle's iPad. For our prototype, we will individually print off the pages and bind it. However, for our final product, we will professionally print it using this software called https://www.snapfish.co.nz/store/home.
We are going to be creating a graphic novel that has 6 chapters, each focusing on a different invisible disability. Each chapter will follow its own storyline, trying to provoke empathy in our readers and educate them on the common things these people go through on a daily basis. We will be creating the graphic novel as individual pages on Estelle's iPad. For our prototype, we will individually print off the pages and bind it. However, for our final product, we will professionally print it using this software called https://www.snapfish.co.nz/store/home.
Here are photos of the process.
Creating the Graphic Novel Pages
As each of us had a job to do, Estelle's was to plan, draw and design the pages of our graphic novel. To do this she used her apple Ipad and apple pencil and an app called procreate. It took time drawing each individual page and designing how each character would look, depending on the chapter and storylines. Choosing colour schemes and creating the pages in a way it would catch our target audiences eye took careful time and consideration.
Final Graphic novel
Group-PDF-Export-5.pdfAugmented Reality planning
The technology element in our solution will be a QR code at the back of the book, which, after scanning, will take you to a place to install an app (Overly) https://overlyapp.com/ that allows you to scan pages of our book. After you scan certain pages using the app, a video will appear over the image, creating a moving image effect. We also would like to have some pages after each chapter providing a more detailed explanation of what the disabilities and diseases talked about in the book are.
The technology element in our solution will be a QR code at the back of the book, which, after scanning, will take you to a place to install an app (Overly) https://overlyapp.com/ that allows you to scan pages of our book. After you scan certain pages using the app, a video will appear over the image, creating a moving image effect. We also would like to have some pages after each chapter providing a more detailed explanation of what the disabilities and diseases talked about in the book are.
Unfortunately, as we were working through the AR software, we learned that only Google play has this app meaning that our AR experience can only be viewed on android devices. When we learnt this, it was extremely disappointing, as we had tried so hard trying to find suitable software. Next time this will be a key thing we focus on and try even harder to find a software that would work for all.
Unfortunately, as we were working through the AR software, we learned that only Google play has this app meaning that our AR experience can only be viewed on android devices. When we learnt this, it was extremely disappointing, as we had tried so hard trying to find suitable software. Next time this will be a key thing we focus on and try even harder to find a software that would work for all.
QR code that leads to the App Overly which needs to be downloaded in order to view the AR experience.
The Process of creating the Augmented Reality.
We started off by creating a storyline for our AR version of the book. The storyline can be seen from slides number 18-27. This is mainly done by Shreeji
We then created the AR display on canva. This would simply be a replica of the book just the messages would be different and there would be animations added to make it more interactive. This is mainly done by Shreeji
To add the moving characters we created the frames for them using Ibis Paint X, with each frame being a different layer in the same illustration so it's easier to see the relationship between each frame. Unfortunately, the images do not have transparent backgrounds, so they had to be manually removed. Each frame were then individually uploaded to Canva. The background is duplicated multiple times with each character frame overlaid over it. All built-in Canva animations were removed and the duration of each slide shortened, so the overall effect becomes that of an animation. The slides themselves are then cropped using Clideo to fit the page. This is mainly done by Sumi
After preparing the video, we converted the page we want to scan into an image file, as Overly does not support PDF files. Then we uploaded the image and the video onto Overly before shaping the video so that it fits the image. This is also mainly done by Sumi.
Final Augmented Reality Experience
Includes instructions on how to view and use the AR + Photos
So how is this solution going to help solve the problem?
We believe that after reading the short novel, the readers will go back into our community with a new perspective towards those who have invisible disabilities or diseases. Through the use of our graphic novel, we are hoping those who read the book will be more educated about invisible disabilities and diseases and those with them will feel more comfortable in our community.
We believe that after reading the short novel, the readers will go back into our community with a new perspective towards those who have invisible disabilities or diseases. Through the use of our graphic novel, we are hoping those who read the book will be more educated about invisible disabilities and diseases and those with them will feel more comfortable in our community.
Feedback on Prototype
Feedback for our prototype was mostly good, but our prototype wasn't showcased much so no one had much feedback for the content of the book itself. The basis of the idea seems to be pretty solid and well-liked though, so few to no drastic changes surrounding the concept of the book itself would need to be made. However, we do need to work on the content itself a bit more so we may obtain more constructive feedback for our prototype. VR does seem to be a more interesting concept than AR, so we are considering adding an extra VR experience to the book if we have time.
Process of developing the prototype
Process of developing the prototype
We experienced lots of barriers whilst completing our prototype. Firstly, gathering feedback from stakeholders was quite difficult due to lockdown. Then communicating with each other was also quite hard, however overall it was very well done. We received lots of feedback that we have implemented in the prototype. The graphic novel was well planned from the start, and it was definitely a benefit having a skilled artist as part of our group. There were many ups and downs for the AR section, largely due to the fact that we couldn't find a suitable software. Mr Howan advised Overly, which we decided to go with. This software overlays an AR video on top of the book which we thought was very interesting and we could work around that to make it fit our expectations. We also decided that the AR videos will consist of an environment of where people are aware of invisible disabilities. So the opposite of the original graphic novel.
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