PRESENTATION EVALUATION: FEEDBACK RECEIVED & MY THOUGHTS

Presenting my progress thus far has proven to be extremely helpful. The process of preparing to and presenting what I have learnt so far and what I have been thinking about has helped to clarify how I should proceed with the project. The main idea I have had throughout this project that I liked most is interactive holograms, however, it is something I have tried to work away from continuously, because of concerns it is too ‘science fiction like’. However, my research has shown me that it is something that can be developed, and could be made available about 25 years into the future, around the time that holographic TV is set to emerge. I have also discovered it is my strongest idea, and that it was overwhelming preferred to all my other ideas, which were not very well received by the group. Most of the comments were fair, and were issues I pointed out myself that I would have worked on if I decided to take those concepts further, however I did find a couple of comments unfair, and they got me thinking about the presentation at the end. Until this point, I have assumed that we could imagine a target audience, and present how we would to the imagined target audience. For example, my pedestrian sensors have genuine research to back up the idea that they would have a small impact on cutting down accidents, however no one in the group seemed to take this on board, the response was more like, ‘Well, I wouldn’t slow down because of that’ or ‘ I wouldn’t want one of those’ however, I feel that given the chance to research the correct target audience, i.e mothers with children in the car or road safety organisations, the technology could catch on. However, what I have realised is that my idea needs to be something that will appeal to the group in the presentation/crit at the end of the project, as well as my suggested target audience, and based on the strong enthusiasm and comments people made about them, I think that the holograms(with a lot of development) could become really marketable. I am now going to brainstorm my new ideas on how to develop the concept into a desktop feature. I am also thinking about how I can present them, and am looking forward to the 3-d tutorial we will be getting next week, as it seems the best way. I would also like to create a concept website. It will have links to active pages, and all the graphics, but buttons such as ‘buy now’ won’t work. It will be a sort of working model of how the holograms would be supported and sold online.