My group members are still not very active in problem solving. While I am working very hard to figure out the coding of the project, my team members are not actively spot other problems and handle them. I need to literally delicate the job to them one by one. Even the time allocation I set will exceed. Suppose other group could complete a task in a day, our group took 2 days.
The collectively growing pressure to aim at completing the project is getting bigger and bigger.
I finally sort out the ways to integrate graphical UI into Processing. It's a very tough journey to walk. At one point, I have emotional break down at home because I am so worry that after working so hard to develop the ui with the design head, I can't make use the UI at all. I feel so sad. I feel sorry to my members if I help them to sort things out yet at my part of the project I didn't fulfil my part of expectation. It's also very tiring to get deal with so many things at one time. But with no time for emotional, I need to pick myself up wherever I fall. So I press on and aim to put in all the graphical UI into Processing as close as we could, to present the prototype experience.
Today is Beta test.
Our UI is all in the program. But it's demonstrated in 2 parts. The best that I can do, is to customise Kinect's skeleton detection with our GUI. The other part is to get the UI sequence function by coding them line by line. At this stage we have no sound component integrated. But the rough stimulation of the experience is there.
Knowing that we couldn't impress much in the complete usability, we try our best, the research, idea development and behind the scene to the assessors so that we wouldn't be judged just by our finishing. To this point, I'm still very proud with the team. As we know who we are, the personality, the working style, the weaknesses, the struggles and the speed of working could be all vary, but we finally pull through! We've got something to show.
I realised one interesting fact. We can do best at the skills or given talents we have. Sue Min is a very detailed oriented person, has a very strong passion towards architecture. She's been sharing with me many times how much she wanted to study architecture before. With the help of her father, she realised her dream, she helped us build a very solid and easy to assemble and resemble vending machine frame. I had never seen any logistic that could perform so well as she could. She's been telling us that building an actual machine frame is not easy, but I only understand in parts. When her dad fetch the completed machine frame to IIS for us, I am totally amazed.
Evon has very sharp video skills and content research skills. She always help us to record down notes, and take care of all the video filming details, editing till late night also, she's willing to make the best out of our video content.
Mt is quite unwilling to make changes most of the time. But she's critical enough in idea thinking and user flow consideration. Though she's not taking the lead in the design department, but she's critically enhancing and executing the UI design.
To me, personally, I know that I've tried my best to work with the team that I am given, with the various style and preferences we have, we are able to come to the same direction and move together effectively, I personally are impressed by the outcome we can manage to create.
Since it's only about 8 academic weeks time.
I'm very encouraged. Knowing that as I have to dealt with my incomplete project outcome, as a lecturer, it wasn't easy. But I took the responsibility. Trying very best to explain the challenge of our team, I hope that the focus of the critic can also be given upon the direction of the project and the ideation part. This is the first time since the project started, two of the assessors can identify what we've been through. As I didn't got any assurance from the tutor saying that we're moving at the right direction, or we are learning from the mistakes we've made. None of these comments are given from the tutors. Instead, I felt a bit weird that my tutors seems to avoid eye contact with me outside classroom, and our group seems like receiving a different treatment compared to other groups.
I became very sensitive towards what the tutors expression is signifying to us.
But, I still have the motivation to aim to complete the project as much as I could.
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