Figuring Things Out
For the first week, I intended to zoom out from the previous topic that I was researching into which was about the manipulation of UX in XR(extened reality) and the topic was rather focused on VR environment which poses the limitation of hardware to test on. On hindsight, I wanted to see if there are more oportunities to explore within the realm of XR and how UX plays a role in it.
Researching & Readings
As I was researching and reading from a reading list prepared by Andreas, I chanced upon the book of "Speculative Everything", where it sparked some ideas within me as to how XR is part of speculative design and became interested in finding out what are some speculative approach that people are using it for.
As we approach speculative design, there is consideration of how it’s shown to the audience where design is used to open up discussion or debate and used for a certain target. One of the chapters where negativity was used for positive use is somewhat similar to what I had envisioned on how UX can be manipulated and this brings awareness through the use of negativity. An existing example was the project NUCA, where X-RAY cameras were made to capture nude bodies of someone clothed. The reason for the project was to comment on the potential risk of AI in generating fake/ risky content.
Speculative Design
As I dive into the topic of Speculative Design, an exhibition named "Dinner in 2050" was held at Dubai to comment on the climate change and food sources become scarce. With that in mind, they cleverly approached the topic with a twist involving the power of AI to project food that was different from what the visitors input into the speech recognition device. That's when I realised that I wanted to do something that involves the interaction and experience along with speculative design. The value of such, was to perhaps open up discussions when people view the works and that is something I want to work on moving forward. It also brought a new term that I might want to explore which was "AI Powered XR"
Starting Out
To help me to start with new ideas, I started listing out the possible areas that I could speculate. As I’ve somewhat a goal to move towards, now it’s to identify the focus on the subject. On the paper I wrote down some action words that could help explore the aspect of experience and try to figure out the different activities that I could speculate. Not long later, I hit the wall with the amount of things to speculate.
Thereafter, I tried to approach the topic differently in thinking the value that could add to the project rather than just blasting ideas with no lead.
Finding Inspirations
As I was researching about the topic, I tried to spread the net by looking at existing references and inspirations. Listing down the different values and comments on the existing works, hoping that I could take pointers of what I'm interested in and integrate it to my own project. Subsequently, I tried ideating from the inspirations gathered put them all in a single board before analysing them again.
Experimenting with MeshyAI
As I was researching about the topic, I tried to spread the net by looking at existing references and inspirations. Listing down the different values and comments on the existing works, hoping that I could take pointers of what I'm interested in and integrate it to my own project. Subsequently, I tried ideating from the inspirations gathered put them all in a single board before analysing them again.
