CMT: 4th Feb ‘08
This Monday afternoon’s, session was held in the focus area of Hendon campus and the Guest lecturer was Dr. Elke Duncker the topic was on “International Globalisation and Localisation”, before the lecture proper, we talked about our individual project ideas and how it is connected to the topic of the day.
In the lecture, she discussed cross-cultural experience, similarities across ethnicities, Difference between ethnicities, sub cultures, culture, Artefacts, Global products, Global brands, Global products and brands, Problem and solutions with Foreign markets, Localisation, Product and software localisation, Formal and technical aspects of language, Other cultural issues, Local conventions and practices, finally summary and discussions
PDE: 8th Feb ‘08
Today’s session was quite vibrant and exciting for me to an extent, may be because I had my initial concept, presentation and project action plan to discuss with the class. We also had a PhD student Linda, in attendance as well. Nevertheless, Dean started his presentation without Andy who has other University related engagement.
Dean told the team what he has done so far and further research plans he has for his project.
I took the next turn to show the class the concept for my project, the presentation is attached herewith; project -presentation-1.ppt
Andy came into the class in the middle of my presentation, which was good for me because, that will enable him contribute directly towards this phase of my project. Andy, Bob and the rest of the peer-group positively criticized and suggested ways to achieve my design objectives.
When we returned from the usual lunch break, Dikshit presented his AR in architecture project progress. Halil followed with mid-fidelity prototype.
Madushani, assisted by Bob and Andy displayed her AR musical drums simulation with a laptop keyboard, and flat board with markings to indicate levels of speed, volume, tone and timer.
Anoi was brief with his presentation; he introduced his project topic as GUI and Interaction Design for Multi featured HDDTV.
David closed the day by first talking about methods and toolkit for his lead user innovation. For his project, the group members also designed our ideal prototype for a future mobile, music and video set. We were probably acting as lead users in this case, or lead designers may be.
