Reflection

We learned that installations are difficult to follow through from conception to being in a physical space.  What we imagined would be relatively easy in our heads turned out to be a real hassle in the actual space, such as hanging the tent from the ceiling tiles.  Since there was a light bar where we were trying to hang from, some of the ceiling tiles were attached to the drop-ceiling skeleton, making it impossible to put our wire loops around, so we had to put them in locations that weren't ideal instead.  We also had a lot of trouble getting our projector to actually project upward in the way we wanted, resulting in it being in a position that was too close to people's heads.  Our idea would have also benefitted from more prototyping to nail down exactly what we were going for and a sort of "practice run" in the actual space before we set up our final installation to work out details.

Although we never intended the interaction to be more complicated than people opening up the tent and sitting inside, a good point was brought up during the walkthrough that we could have added some interaction with the bubble projections.  Being able to gently swipe at them to change the pattern of ripples from collisions would have been a good addition and promoted immersion and relaxation.  We learned that figuring out interaction early and having people test it along the way would have helped to generate ideas.