Reflection

We achieved a lot of what we wanted to get done before the demo, but we had hoped to have more done for the user experience. We proved that the idea could work, but it would’ve been a really good opportunity during the demo to test out user interactions. Instead, we had to describe verbally what we were envisioning and while we still received very helpful feedback, we were hoping initially to get further for our demo. Some feedback that we received from Zhengfang was that he felt our sacrifice of information didn’t fully capture the feeling that we had envisioned in terms of spookiness. Upon reflection, it feels like part of what allows smart assistants to achieve that level of invasiveness needed to really know the user is a lot of time, something that even in an exhibit we won’t be able to capture. It’s possible that in order to make up for that, we should ask for slightly more personal information.