My Ideas

From looking at existing websites and ways to navigate through information I've come up with a couple of ideas which I will be constructing into short visuals.

My first idea was to follow on what Techniquest and libraries allow people to do. By using the idea of showcasing someones work, I will set up a room full of that persons work and people will be allowed to wander around the room and browse at their leisure and physically get to look through the work. Instead of having a portfolio website, it's more like a gallery. Where a website would have a page showing pictures for example, the room will have an area with images on the walls, or perhaps folders which people can pick up and look through themselves.

My next idea was based more for children because it's based on a childrens game which has had many different names such as 'salt cellars', 'fortune tellers' and 'cootie catchers'. Here's an image of it:
The idea of the game was that someone had to pick a colour that was on the outside of the object. Using the number of letters in that colour, the object would then be moved that number of times. Wherever it stops, there'll be a set of numbers to choose from. After moving the object the number of times chosen, wherever it stops that time the person chooses another number and the panel with that number gets lifted, revealing some information. In the childrens games it could have been silly things like who they would end up marrying, or some other kind of fortune. That information can be changed to something more educational for example. A flash website could easily be created using this, where the user selects the number or colour they want, then a movieclip will play showing the object moving, eventually revealing some information.

My last idea is based on a mix of things from what I saw in the films Minority Report, Wall-E and Gamer. As seen in the clip I posted from Gamer, I had this idea that a room could have information projected on its walls, and you can sort through it with voice commands and hand gestures. It would be like what can be done with some mobile phone applications, but on a larger scale. It would be a development in the way user interfaces can be made 3D and explored. I could show examples of this being used on normal projectors, PCs and mobile phones.

My notes of ideas and planning: