Reflection

Reflect on making this project. What did you learn? What would you do differently? Did you get where you wanted to? If not, why not? What do you need to get there, etc?

1. One thing works really well is displaying the dialogue caption on the table. It helps audiences understand who is speaking, and clearly see what is saying in a noisy environment. Also, triggering the prerecorded audio avoids users from using voice to interact with a voice system, but still convey the context clearly. We've seen many audiences enjoyed the interactivity and spent a lot of time on our booth.

2. What did not work as expected is that we have multiple pieces of content, so it is confusing what to look at first and what to look at the next. Our initial expectation is to let our audiences read the introduction and watch the product video to get a sense of what the product is about, then listen to the dialogue and fake media news to understand how this is being misused. But we found that most audiences directly interacted with the dial, so it is difficult for them to understand the rationale and concept at the very first time. 

3. Another big challenge is the multiple sound pieces are playing at the same time. We have a product video and several dialogues. They are all very loud and noisy,  so we have to turn down the volume of product video to make the dialogue audio clear. Without an audio narrative, the product video does not make much sense. Therefore, we believe using a headphone and adding captions for our product video would largely solve the problem.