BACKGROUND Empathy is a difficult thing to foster in children. There are a range of theoretical methodologies that can be applied to how children learn to be empathetic. Some would say “My child is naturally empathetic.” Others would say that empathy is learned through socialisation at pre-school. Regardless of how it is developed, it is …
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My Shoes 2: revised story
I need to change the story, so after talking to some kids, this is the new narrative. One week. One student (YOU, always called you, removes the need for gendered stuff). Task: Look after one of the following for a week: RobotPuppyAnother kid Mrs Tui has set the class an assignment. You have to pick …
My Shoes, some thoughts as we go on.
I haven’t blogged about this over the last week and a half for a variety of reasons, mostly that I have been trying to get my head around the narrative journey and the complexity of dealing with the multiple choices options, and the resulting impacts on the money count, the social impact and the emotions. …
Refining the concept & narrative outline
Yesterday, what I blurted out feels like a mess. But today, I’ve refined that mess into something more logical, and hopefully actionable. It goes like this Story overview/Plot Kumera Springs Intermediate (D9) is in the fictional town of Kumera Springs. Mrs. Tui has set her Year 5 class an assignment where all students start off …
Check your Privilege…My Shoes? This name issue
So, I’ve devised a pretty rough work plan… DISCOVER Find academic articles relating to the following: Game design for kids 8-12Examples of poverty awareness in digital spaceChild poverty in nzHow to foster empathy in childrenGames about social wellbeingWeb design for childrenEcho chamberDigital magicDiscovery researchDo a Lit review DEVELOP 3-4 different child narrativesList of visual elements …
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Dealing with the wealth divide…digital and real poverty
Project 3 Brief: Individual project (50%) Mid-project presentations 30/1 | Final presentations 11/2 | Handin 13/2 11:59pm “It’s up to us – One thing is certain. The Web will have a profound effect on the markets and the cultures around the world: intelligent agents will either stabilise or destabilise markets; the demise of distance will …
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User Test Script
Jill McDonald: artist research
Book covers, as a separated component of the book as a whole, have a far more recent history than books. Their history begins in the 1820s, when a group of technical changes came into effect, and made the process cheaper and quicker. By the early 1900s, the fashion for illustrated or decorated book cover had …
UX Teardown: Look out Uber
You will create a point by point dissection of an online experience using heuristic analysis and best practice ala Sam Hulick on the UX of onboarding. (It doesn’t have to be an onboarding experience!)Identify 3-5 areas for improvements, clearing stating why the areas you’ve identified may lead to issues for potential users.
Decolonising Ads
Wahine with Apples. Edward Cole. 1930 First thoughts The first thing that struck me is how isolated the ‘whaine’ is from the rest of Edward Cole’s 1930 image. But then, the image seems to be 3 separate things, the landscape background, the Pania of the Reef-like female form, and the apples. Each of these elements …
Jeremiah Boniface 