Study 5 Reflection:

In study 5, as a group, we had to refine the interactive piece. We felt like there was nothing wrong with the way the patch was laid out and it worked the way it was intended to. So we went for the ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” approach. So instead of the unnecessary meddling of the patch design itself we refined the patch by making it look more presentable. This process required us to rearrange the most important key function for the audience to interact with and hide the unnecessary parts that weren’t involved in the interaction. We utilised the presentation mode to enable the necessary adjustments to the aesthetic of interactive piece.

Since we did not accomplish the goal of making people angry in the first iteration of the project, we decided to make people happy instead. The newly presented patch has only the live feed, a fun and interesting caption to entice your curiosity and the outlandish angry meter. This approach makes the interactive piece a lot more pleasing to the eyes which results in a more effective interactions between the work and the audience.