Reflection

With regards to the critique that we received from CMU professionals on 4/20/23, we feel like our idea was well received. However, we won’t know for sure until the day of the exhibit because we had to tell the professors our idea of acting like a welcome area, instead of a room itself. An aspect that we were wary about was the experience of dropping the note in their backpack, but it was received with overwhelming positive reactions and was a nice surprise. One professor had concerns about users who did not have a backpack or bag which brought up an exception and prompted us to think deeper into the overall experience for all users. With regaurds to what we need to do to create a good experience: we need to refine the RFID tagging experience with user’s phones to make sure the experience is seamless and unknowingly tracking user’s data. How do we prompt the user to tap their phones on the tags at each exhibit in a way that isn’t obvious but nudges them to tap with high accuracy. We also want to refine the physical container for the letter to elevate the overall experience and memorabilia that the user gets to keep with them after the exhibit ends. Emily is thinking about the packaging design for the letter, possibly adding gold embellishments or a spooky saying.