Contact: Week 3

Exercises in the Week 3 Contact class involved coming up with and expanding on ideas in which TROVE data can be used over a number of categories focusing on games, educational, utilities and puzzles.

By being split in to 4 groups, each group was initially asked to think of ideas based around one of the topics. After brainstorming, the groups were asked to moved to the next location and continue where the previous group had left off and start narrowing down how their ideas could become more precise.

Many interesting directions for the application of data sourced from TROVE started to come forward across all groups. Utilities had some great issues of the data in regards to natural disaster risk areas and location services.

Moving on from the brainstorming, students were asked to congregate around the topic that interested the most and ask themselves why and what direction would they like to go for the project. I had decided on working a puzzle application that involved a maze.

This seems like a great opportunity to have some freedom to an extent and let yourself look into a field that interested you a little more personally than being ask to complete a particular set of tasks.

The exercise as a whole let my brainstorming work on different levels from an inception of an idea and then see how I could evaluate other ideas that had been put forward and iterate on them to make them into a more precise idea. Having the ability to walk away from the idea the end might we were not to become to attached to the ideas at first and just focus on the brainstorming and ideation of the ideas before having to start narrowing down what it was you wanted to focus one for the next few weeks.