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Smarter Apps for a Connected Living

Team

Gijs Gootjes g.gootjes@hva.nl
Davi Correa da Silva davi.correa@uniriotec.br
Ruben Rodriguez aparicio.ruben@gmail.com
Steven Van Hoegaerden stevenvanhoegaerden@hotmail.com

Commissioner: TWC

Description

We\'re developing a tool set or white label app for broadcasters, advertisers and format creators. It should be a generic kit that works for any kind of content and should be activated by Linear TV.

Design presentation

After our last meeting at TWC, we started designing and making wireframes for the digital sticker album. We also made some decisions on how we are going to do the trading and the collecting and the scanning. We worked out some of these features but we wanted to get the feedback of TWC on these features. The reason why we had this meeting was to see if our design was going in the right direction, if our wireframes are correct and if the trading, collecting and scanning is interesting for the users.

Steven Design Presentation

We took a Philips Smart TV back to the Medialab from TWC so we can start testing our app on it. This is how happy everybody was with the TV!

Carrying smart tv

The feedback after the presentation was that we need to think about what makes our app special and what the killer feature is. We decided that this is going to be the scanning, trading and the collecting of the digital stickers. We first added some games and interactivity but we are not going to work that out due to a lack of time. So after the presentation we are going to work more on the trading, scanning and collecting.

We already made a scanning system that recognizes the sticker and sends the sticker in to your digital album. It works like this: the smart phone makes a picture of the app, the picture gets send to a server and the server recognizes the picture and puts it in your digital album.
Here is a video of how it works:

The flowchart we made is an idea of how our app will work. The end result can be found here. It is a clickable flowchart, so you have an idea of where you can click.

 

 

 

Paper prototyping

We made some paper prototypes of our app to see how people would use it and which kinds of troubles they have while using it. We started with making a cardboard Smartphone, Smart TV and tablet. We then took big papers and started drawing every possible screen on there, so we could take the cardboard devices and go over the screens on the paper.

In the beginning it was difficult to figure out which had to be on which screen because none of us made this before. There were still so many aspects which were unknown so we had to fill them in.

 

Afterwards we made these paper sketches digital by using the app Protosketch. You first take photos of the paper sketches with the app, and then you link each photo to another. Later the app connects them all and you can click on the sketches you made… et voila! You have a digital sketch.

We use all of this work to understand how our concept will work in a visual way. Also we test it with some children, and now we are working on the different features that the prototype will have, like the scanning or the trading of the stickers.