Horizontal and Feasibility Prototype

Back to business with my team's TUI design! We sought to achieve three goals in our prototypes: high feasibility in look, medium fidelity in feel, and mixed fidelity in depth.

High feasibility in look:
Being a classroom setting, we have very specific desires for our interface system. We are currently in discussion with the HCI Lab student staff on appropriate 3D printing materials. It turns out that instead of the transparent or semi-opaque printing filaments, we can simply use white. The white filament allows the glow of the LED lights through the box! We are very excited to start printing, but we are stuck on creating the correct AutoCAD design (how will we put the wiring in the box? how thick should the box walls be?). We have replaced our RFID emotional tokens with a slider (as a metaphor for a student's emotional spectrum). With this feature change, we are also questioning the box size.

With all of these questions in mind, we will later print boxes of different sizes, different hinges, and different thicknesses.

Medium fidelity in feel:
We have all of the student input techniques implemented (the buttons and slider). These interactions send the teacher information (now simulated with a USB connection).

Mixed fidelity in depth:
We deeply explored the use of arduino, wiring/soddering, and the Arduino IDE. The wiring and working of the inTUItion cube need to be perfect, so we began deep work on this important part.

Conclusion:
I look forward to designing this!