We had the kick start meeting for the project yesterday!
Diving straight into the topic, there was so much to listen, and CHOOSE!!
There were two research topics to select from ↓
1) Designing a futuristic communication device
2) Virtual Reality for user-centered design
Choosing was a difficult task, but i was more interested in making something in real world, so it was obvious for me to go for the earlier choice of designing a futuristic communication device.
Moving ahead to discuss more about the device, we talked about the motivation to design a new product.
My professor has a vision to make teleportation possible, and i realized that both her research topics are related to this vision. Virtual reality would make a person appear and look real in virtual world, and then the new communication device would be instrumental in the exchange of non-visual data. The non-visual data is the term that leaves me wandering!! What is a non-visual data? Data such as emotions, sensations and environment. Emotions such as happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, confusion, etc etc. Sensations mean anything that are related to the 5 senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and visual. Since the visual and hearing sensations are covered in the virtual reality part of making teleportation possible, my main focus would be on the emotions, and sensations (except visual and hearing). Waiting for some research to be held in the 6th sense for me develop a device that could connect people using the 6th sense. :))
For developing a communication device, we can have a human to human communication and human to non-human (animals etc.) communication. (Thinking about it, it does not make sense to have a non-human to non-human communication device; or wait, maybe it DOES……. Distant communication between dogs… INTERESTING XD). It would be needed to do a study of the existing ideas and researches that are being conducted in this field, to know what is crazy and what is feasible.
As a sum-up of the meeting, as design student, i needed to give extreme importance even to the most vague ideas that would come to my mind with respect to developing this device. Talks to people, their opinions, jokes, papers, news, latest gadgets, should all be taken note of. As an engineering student i need to to read a lot of research papers, make a logical reasoning approach and analyse everything in a reasonable way in order to write my thesis!! This gave me the idea to start blogging that would sum up everything!
So here I am, with the BIG BANG, to give my research a kick start.
Will keep all posted about the latest!!
Signing off!!
(Excited)(Excited)
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