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April 04, 2005

My Schedule

I like to stick the stuff in my posts in the "extended entry" part. ;)

I have given some more thought to my project. My intent is to explore and satirize the construction of identity through consumption. At its core, my project is a list of annotated objects/products/concepts. Each one has associated keywords and a sentence or two attached to it about what it suggests about my persona. Through a minimal flash interface, you will go shopping for the items that will build your own custom Aaron. Each object will have an iconified representation. Mousing over the object will provide more info. What I want to try is to have a limited number of objects for you to select from at each stage (maybe 4 stages of object selection total). Each selection will determine what items will next be selectable (ie related items).

And now for my schedule...

April 12th - Final list of objects, keywords, most of the associated sentences finished. Preliminary interface sketch, interactivity walkthrough

April 19th - Working prototype... probably not too polished or debugged. No sounds or flashy flash flourishes yet.

April 26th - The final thing... it'll have some sounds and will work nice and smooth and will take into account issues brought up in class presentation.

Posted by adm at April 4, 2005 10:35 PM

Comments

Great progress - I'm curious about the interface and the selection process. I get to build the Aaron I want you to be (for you? for me?) or the Aaron you want to be (for me? for you?) or the Aaron that best represents our mutual intersections of taste, of sensibility? There's no right answer, but your interface will determine what it is I get to build. Do we get a shopping cart?
(Aside: Will did a project his first year looking at grocery cart paths and contents in his local Gelson's...tangentially related.)

Posted by: pweil [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 6, 2005 09:52 AM

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