DSDN 112: Week One

So...another semester begins! Showing up to my first class of DSDN 112 (Introduction to Interaction Design), I hadn't a clue what to expect. We chose our own groups this time round, got assigned a tutor and we got introduced to our course outline and first assignment. We have to build an object to do with one of our 5 bodily senses, that someone else can interact with. Ideas are flaring!..


Our first studio was quite a chilled out and relaxed one, we ate Oreos to discover the relationship between our senses on how we see it. I didn't see anything since I just ate it in one bite.
The next one was something that was interesting though. They prepared "shots" of milk, one was normal colored and the rest were blue, green and yellow. We all had to have one of each color and guess what flavor they were. Of course I immediately thought that it was just milk, with food coloring...was I right? Yeah. We'll leave it at that. Right, so the next one was a funny looking red liquid that looked like kool-aid. There was this funny little contraption that you put under your nose to make it smell like raspberry, but when you drink it you're hit with a very sour taste, which can only be lemon juice. Yes, very deceiving..


So nek studio...


We were asked to bring 5 objects that represent something to do with each sense.
Mine were:


Taste - Jaybees! (I bought a packet of Jaybees because the colors of each jellybean is misleading. Plus the texture changes completely once you reach the center, with the flavor changing to a bland and boring taste. Oh, and it has my name.


Smell - A box of matches was my first choice, only because when you first light a match you get a big whiff of the flame/smoke that extracts from it. My second was my cologne, simply because who doesn't like the smell of a highly rated branded scent?


Touch - Sandpaper. Black sandpaper that is. I chose this color instead of the normal "sand" colored (wow) sandpaper because it looks smoother. Yup, mislead again.The black sandpaper that I brought was actually rough as ...rough. 


Hear - I showed 2 interesting apps from my iPhone. The first was a sleep aid, where it plays soothing sounds to people who find it hard to sleep at night (certainly not me). The second was what grabbed peoples attention. It was called Hearing Test. It emits a frequency from low to high to test what age of hearing we had. Tested it, we all had a hearing of a 30year old..apparently.


See - I brought a big plastic sheet that's actually a magnifying glass. This just gave me the idea of certain materials that we look through, which changes our vision wildly depending on what we're looking through. A good example would be a pair of prescription glasses, which are solely designed for one person's eyesight. If anyone else ever looked through it, blurry/dizzy life ahead..