Share Your Life Status Report week 49

This week we have put in a lot of work to finish our book chapter, and we feel really happy about what have managed to put together.

We have also cut and finalized editing the movie, which we filmed last Friday. It turned out really well! The work that still remains is the recording of the voice-over, and producing the sound to make it all complete. We are meeting up already Friday this week (today) to get started on that. 

We did some of the recordings in the VIC studio at KTH

The film was made to purposely fit our idea for the presentation - a talk show. Our group will be the last group to present, so we wanted to do something with an interesting format. We also believe it fits our project really well, as we want to visualize the views of the different stakeholders in our program; the Share Your Life - system/organization, the researcher, the medical doctors/clinics, and the important data-donors.

We wanted to find a carpet for the presentation to make F1 (if possible) feel more cozy and like a talk show studio, and with the excellent help of Malin and Daniel we have found a great carpet-candidate. We are also today (Friday) checking out F1 to see if it is feasible to have a talk-show studio there. Keep your fingers crossed that we do not find any vicious problems….

The plan for next week is to finish up the film, and set the final details for the presentation. We will be ready to deliver everything to the Presentation Master by the deadline next Friday.

We are really looking forward to seeing the results of what everybody has been working so hard on this period!

The Future of 3D-printing Weekly Report w. 49

This week
This week we have spent most time adjusting in our report and shortened a lot of text. During this process we came to the conclusion that “Sav3D” - (Salvaging aid vehicle 3D) was not a suitable name since the “v” (vehicle) emphasizes the headquarters as the focus. To us “Sav3D” is more the whole collaborative system more of the focus, why we decided to change the name to “R3D” - (Recovery 3D). We are happy with the result and made some great new illustrations of how R3D’s system works, and it’s mobile/desktop applications.

             
                                                        R3D - The headquarters

                                                           R3D - The system

                                             Mobile application for local citizens

                                             Desktop application for global support

We held one meeting this week 2/12 to sync the progress in the report with the presentation-group. We didn't encounter any problems, at this state in the process we all have the same picture of what this project is and how it will look like in the end. The process is very smooth and we are satisfied with the way we work in the group.

Since we had split into one presentation group and one report writing group, everyone have directed the focus to the presentation now. We are currently working on two film clips for the presentation. One short intro, and one animated clip that will demonstrate how R3D works. At first we had planned to film the second movie clip, but found some great inspiration of a theme for how we could animate it and reach a better end result. While two members are working on them, the rest will write the script for the presentation the following week.

Next week
We have been in contact with the Daniel Ljungstig at 3Dverkstan about access to a 3D-printer for the presentation. Next week we will go to 3Dverkstan and get instructed in how to use a 3D-printer and lend one for the presentation. Our hopes is to print something during the presentation, it might get difficult due to the tight time schedule. But we feel it would add a lot to the presentation experience.
Next week we will also finish the films and the script between and after the films.

The Future of Motivation weekly report w. 49

As we foresaw last week we finished our article and we will hand it in tomorrow.
We spent a lot of time revising and rewriting the text to make it more fluid and catchy as possible.
The biggest change we made in our You-Topia concept has being defining the hierarchy of certificates and awards that the user would acquire during her/his progression.

Another important part of this week's work has been creating the images that will complement our article. Among them we created the absolute definitive interface of You-Topia featuring Profile, Missions and Feedback/Performance trying to keep the design as linear and user-friendly as possible.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow we have planned 3 group meetings to plan and schedule the main shooting session that will probably take place on next Monday. We decided that despite the concept of an interactive video was particularly engaging and fun we will probably shoot short frames showing good and bad actions that will be recorded on You-Topia and to which extent these will contribute to one's progression. The whole video will be followed by a voice-over narrator making it look as a tutorial-alike promotional video. Since this is the worst moment of the year for shooting (cold and not much daylight) we will probably extend our shooting session to another day, still not planned.

We have chosen our "hero quote" from the lyrics of this memorable Lou Reed's song:
"[...] You are going to reap just what you sow".

The You-Topia crew wish you a "Perfect Day".

Future of media companies, week 48

During this week we have focused to get the writing process going for real. We met up Tuesday and discussed not only the layout of the text but also yet again how we shall dispose the time during the final presentation. As we wrote in the previous blog post our goal now is to present a service platform, a kind of Spotify within the television industry. Since our original theme was wide, and we didn’t have a clear goal in the beginning of what our final conclusion would be, it feels great now to have a definite goal and something the group all agree on to continue working on.
Regarding our final report that has been our focus this week, we decided to start it by presenting our future vision of the media industry with a vivid description of the service. Hopefully this will appeal more to the reader than to start with our conclusion we have made.
Earlier we have received feedback telling us that we are not connecting our idea with this years theme – the sharing economy and the digital commons. Therefore, we are now making sure that the theme is well connected in the text to the conclusions we have made and the picture we are putting up as the possible future for the media industry. To us the theme has been a part of ever meeting and discussion we have had in the group, but we have realised that it hasn’t been portrayed well in the texts we have written so far. It is a challenge for us to explain how we are connecting the big and complex media industry to the theme in the text, but putting extra time on the writing process and help each other with conclusions will probably result in a better description of our project and the theme in the final version of the text.
The coming week we will finalize the complete text and make sure we have enough time in the end to proofread it well before sending it in. It feels great to be one week closer to the date of the final presentation when we get to present what we been working on in such a long time!

Future of Trust: Trustify. (w.48)

What we have done?

We have just continued to each work on our assigned tasks. Last weekend we shot the first scenes of our movie, which was very successful. The scene is now completely edited and ready for the final presentation. This weekend we will continue to shoot more scenes.

Here a sneak preview:

For the article we have continued to write and it is now overall finished, with over 3000 words. To go with the article we conducted expert interviews, which we hope to incorporate and strengthen our text.

What we will do next week?

Next week we intend to add the finishing touches to the article. The article is currently all written but has yet to be edited and polished with pictures added. We will finish this a few days before the deadline so we have time to play around with the layout and graphics using Axel’s template if we wish to. Also some references need to be added to support our arguments.

The movie will be having its last two scenes shot next week, then afterwards we will continue working on the editing, which takes up most of the time.

Once the article is written we can then start working on putting together a kickass presentation that will hopefully blow everyone away!

Challenges encountered?

Filing the movie was one of the biggest challenges we encountered because there was so much to prepare and organise. The scripts needed to be written and checked, equipment needed to be loaned or borrowed, actors needed to be brought in at a particular time and day.

Editing, as mentioned previously, is also the hardest part. The message in the videos need to come across clearly which can sometimes get lost. At some points we found it hard to step out of our “group” and look at the videos as a neutral party. We instead showed the videos to a few people with mixed reactions - some people understood the concept, others didn’t. We found that this was not because the video was shot badly, but because we did need some introduction to the concept - something we will definitely incorporate into the final presentation.

As for the article, we are over the character limit, which means we have to make the article more concise, yet still leave in all the important and relevant information.

Changes in the project?

No changes has been made to the project this week.

(fyi: our blog post from 12am today was somehow not uploaded and landed in the "drafts" folder, that's why this re-upload)

Shenergy - the Future of a Sustainable Shared Economy (Week 48)

What we have done

This week we have worked hard with our presentation and started to film the movie scenes. Before we started filming we had to further develop our storyboard and visualize the scenes in the movie. This helped us to assure that we got all the shots needed when filming. Also, it helped us to get a clear picture of the final result, and to understand our limitations when it comes to film effects etc. Parallel to the filming, we wrote on the script for the voiceover in the movie. Further, we designed the prototype of the Shenergy application that will be shown in the movie in form of a holographic screen. We have started to work with most of the animations that will be used in the movie.

Regarding the report we have transformed our ideas and the framework on what to write under each subtitle into a coherent text. We have created a first draft with an introduction to the energy system in Sweden, our future scenario and our solution “Shenergy”.

We have also figured out some trends that we think will happen to support our solution:

• Increase of energy micro producers - Less expensive energy production technology and changed legislation to micro producer´s favor.
• More awareness about energy consumption - Sustainability is constantly being integrated in our lives as people become aware of the issues. New areas arise where the environment and energy usage is in focus, for example Norra Djurgårdsstaden, and people are becoming more and more aware of their energy consumption.
• Utilize unused resources -
• Some sort of collapse or catastrophe that will change the way will live today

What we will do

Next step for the presentation group is to start editing the movie. When editing the movie we will use the Adobe programs Premiere Pro CC and After Effects. Since none of us has worked with these programs before, we believe this to be quite challenging. However, we have looked up several tutorials online that probably will help us to fulfill our goals and wishes for the movie.

Challenges encountered

One challenge we dealt with this week was the Swedish climate during this time of year, the conditions when we filmed were not optimal. The fog and darkness made it difficult to shoot the outside scenes we had planned, especially since it gets dark so quickly.

Changes in the project

We have not made any major change in the project since last week.

The Future of Motivation weekly report w. 48

This week we wrapped our project up taking some final decisions on how to shape our You-Topia concept and consequently our design, article and presentation. In order to be more effective and give more continuity and consistence we split the group in two sub-groups:
- Kristina, Natalia and Alexandra are taking care of the final presentation, video concept and design for the definitive user interface
- Mikael and Matteo are putting together the article.

This week has been essential for narrowing the scope of our project and taking final decisions on how to conceptualise it. Among the offload trends that we proposed there is the prominence in the future of getting a certificate as “social contributor” or “social innovator”, hence the acknowledgement of an active social collaboration will have a strong prominence on one’s profile.
This forecast is intrinsically democratic and egalitarian: the fulfilment of the individual has the same importance of the fulfilment of one’s collaborative role into a better society.
There will be opportunity for everyone to help with their mind or their hands and be rewarded.
We need to agree on which kind of certification could You-Topia release step by step according to one's achievements in the game.

We went deeper into gamification and motivation theory giving a better grounding to our hypothesis and justifying some assumptions we have done for You-Topia. For this task the interview with Björn Hedin has been particularly insightful and provided us with some concrete examples that brought us to a better understanding of game and challenge dynamics.

We set an internal group deadline for our article on Wednesday 3rd so it is our absolute priority to finish the text and suggest some final corrections if needed.

In the meanwhile we started thinking at the video concept and we are planning to create an interactive video story where the user will chose between an action and the other to continue to the next step of the plot. There will be a right and a wrong choice showing the consequences and the interaction with You-Topia. Designing how to convey a good story will be our main task for the next week in which we will have a full group lunch meeting to discuss about the storyboard.