Author: maughan2018

In the next session we had we decided to choose an idea to work on to turn into our final piece. However because the group was split on which idea we should work on we had to come up with a system to fairly decide which would be the best idea to continue with. I decided to make a list of pros and cons of each idea so we could evenly weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of each project. We decided that the one with the least detrimental disadvantages and the best advantages would win and that is the idea we would go forward with. After creating a long list of pros and cons for each idea we decided that the best idea would be the interactive screen. Although when the group was discussing this we decided to add another useful asset to the screen which would be games that used physiotherapy without the child realising it. We decided to incorporate this feature after having a very interesting lecture on gamification in which I went home and did some research on. I read a book online known as Gamification by Design written by Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham.

 

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Gamification by Design written by Gabe Zichermann, Christopher Cunningham 2011

The same day that our group was put together we wasted no time and decided it would be best if we could start generating different ideas for us to work on straight away. The way that we first decided to do this was by first of all deciding exactly who our product or project would be aimed at. After looking at the Assignment brief and discussing the pros and cons of each scenario we decided to aim our project at Children with medical illnesses. We then began generating ideas around the Idea of helping seriously ill children and how we could make their life easier. In this session the ideas that we came up with were as follows: a game in which children can defeat disease and learn about them on a tablet, a game in which the player controls the human brain with levers and buttons learning and blood pressure, respiration and the human body and the last idea was a interactive screen that allows children to keep entertained and in contact with their family whilst staying in hospital.