After finish this assignment, I got some new skills and found ways to get inspiration, the most important thing is I realize that sometimes the way people think is just one-side view, we need to discuss with people around us and exchange idea, new information always inspires people. My growth environment may influence me that do not have much creative thinking, after I chose this class, I started to try to do something to be more creative and get divergent thinking.

When we start to do study 4, my group members decided to do a program that about extreme emotion of human, one of my group members proposed that we can make two emotion, smile and angry, then set a voice induction system which can detect the volume then change the to make the picture change to smile or angry face. After that me and my group members had a great idea with this project, we decided to make this to a ‘class warning system’, which can be a reminder to some people that when their volume in the class is loud and may interfere other classmate, we made the induction system to be sensitive, when the voice be a designated volume, the smile face will change to a red face, then there is a camera can catch the person and stop in that moment. That is an interesting work for us, when our teacher helping us, we also got some technical improve.

When finished study 4, we had a chance to show our work and see other classmates’ work and get some more idea and suggestions. There were lots of great works I saw, I admire their creativity and imagination, some of their program even can be a real interactive art not just exercise like ours. After some classmates experienced our program, they suggested us to adjust the sensitivity to be stronger to make it to be more sensitive, and they think when they shout to the computer, they don’t feel angry but embarrassed, so some of them think we can change the angry face to be a awkward face. on that class we got lots of great advices.

The most interesting and useful lesson is we went to the ACMI and an exhibition to get some inspiration. That was useful and really inspired me on the doing the main project. I decided to make a simple game base on a console game that I played in ACMI center. My teacher helped me a lot on this work, and I used some monster pictures on it, to make the program looks cute.

The facts prove that I’m improving. from last assignment to this assignment, I learned that the idea is more important than technology, when the time I saw other classmates’ distinctive program, and also when I was viewing the interactive art and exhibition in ACMI, I tried to understand the productions in some other ways which is not the way I think usually. Realize to get creative thinking and try to get divergent thinking is the biggest progress in this step.

There are lots of things that I need to improve and be aware, I found that when I approach some new or challenge things, such as about using Max, I will not be active to explore the new functions by myself, but rely on the help from the teacher. I also find that I have been simplifying my initial ideas for reduce the difficulty. So, the next time I think I should try to watch more videos online and download some materials, that may make my program be more interesting and have more possibilities. I also realize that this is a good chance to physically put our ideas into action when we use this. The manipulation is also necessary, because when I got a bunch of ideas but don’t know how to present them, that’s a really disappointing thing, although I said that creative thinking is more important than technology.

Overall, this assignment is definitely better than the last one, and also added more creative ideas into the work to make it be vivid. I looking forward to learn more about using max 7 and create more amazing interactive art in the future.

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Statement 3(solo)

For the last work of this assignment is a solo project, our teacher took us to ACMI and exhibition center which is located in Federation square to get some inspiration, there were lots of interaction arts, when I saw them I really got a lot idea, but the other problem is how to present the idea. Finally, I chose a game that I played in there, the game is like a little kid in the middle, and the surrounding is all shooting machine that will attack the kid, the kid needs to run and avoid those shooting bubble. I started to make a program like that, and I decided to make it to be cute and can attract children. When I doing this program, my teacher helped me a lot, he used many new codes and made some new effects which is cool, we made a funny picture in the middle, and set it as a move window which controlled by the keyboard, when I press the up and down button, it will go up or down, then I set some little monsters chasing the middle one. When the whole program done, it looks so cute and funny which is my purpose. Even though it is a simple work, but the idea is interesting and I also got a lot creative ideas when I went to the exhibition and ACMI, which may useful in the next assignment.

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Statement 2(Study 5)

After we finish our study 4, we shared our work in the class, when I see their works, I and my group member also had some new ideas, many of them made a great interact work. When we present our program, many people did not feel angry but awkward, and also the sensitivity is too high to make the emoji to change, so we started to try to change the code to adjust the sensitivity, the challenge is when we setting the code, when the code is 0.02 or smaller than 0.02, the sensitivity will remain, not getting weaker. Then we got some advice from our teacher, he suggested we can add another message to make the whole system get much weaker, then the problem solved. In the end, we add original text and two equal sign to help audience get better understand of our work. To be frankly, we did not do much change on study 5, because me and my group members don’t have any new ideas with that, we had thought to add more things into this work, but we found that was meaningless, so we just keep what we did on last study, and base on study 4 to do some little improve. Overall, we had a improve to compare with last assignment, even though we got lots of help from our teacher, but that will make me get deep impression when our teacher helping us. This work also sparked my creativity, I also get a new breakthrough.

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Statement 1(Study 4)

After we did some exercise with using Max to make program and express our inspiration, I had learned some new operations and codes. After the last assignment, I realized that the most important aim of our lesson is to get inspiration, then make a simple work to express it. At the first, we inspired by other classmate’s work, we decided to make a program that can use the volume of our voice to change some elements (Such as pictures or videos) of that program. After we had that thought, we tried to explore how to make it by using Max, we also called help from our teacher. The Final work we complete is a system that change a picture by using our voice getting louder or weaker. The reason why we had this idea is, we found that sometimes when we had discussion in the class, our voice may get louder unconsciously that may interfere other classmates, so we made this program to be a reminder, when our voice getting louder, the emoji face will from ‘Smile’ changing to ‘Angary’, also there is a camera can catch your face, the reason why we set this is to make the audience be aware of this, then achieve our original goal. We met many challenges that we doing this study, such as to adjust the sensitivity, we tried a lot codes then found that, the smaller number get higher sensitivity.