RECAP

Okay I have honestly been feeling slightly lost whilst doing my first two artefacts. I was not sure if my experiments where directly related or answering the question at all. However after talking to Danny and Joolz, things seemed to get clearer. This is a reminder to myself and a reflection of the conversations I had with them.

Its occurred to me (only after joolz pointed it out )that my first artefact (about lines) and my second one (about shapes) seem, to be obviously related. He said 'lines make up shapes, perhaps you should have done them as one artefact). Nonetheless he said it is good that I'm to define the most important 'things'.

During our conversation I mentioned to Joolz that two out of the four members in my focus group have read some parts of my research project document, they are not experts in the subject nonetheless they now have sufficient knowledge about my area of discussion.

He advised me to make my experiments more complex and create constraints, especially because two members of my focus group understand the topic and could possibly make biased decisions. The constraints will help me get more 'realistic' or less biased answers from them. For example give members of my focus group a time limit e.g 30 seconds to look at my experiment. He then went along and said, it is good that two members have an understanding of the research document, therefore the two members can be my 'placebo'. Don't give your focus group guidance and only answer questions when asked. I will carry out my coming artefacts as advised. I will also track the answers from my placebo group and the non placebo and compare the difference and similarities in their answers and asses the placebo effect.

He also suggested that "awareness of space is provoked by other visual elements of space". For example." Limited space is the same as deep space without depth cues, it is movement that joins the two". He asked me to think about how other elements help define the space.

One thing I realized is that I was approaching my artefacts from a different angle, I knew forehand the things I was keen to experiment on, after writing my research document, however Joolz explained to me that it is the results of one artefact that are meant to lead you to your next artefact. He said it is fine in knowing what you want to experiment next, although I should be hoping to find out e.g. for my second artefact, how shapes influence the space without being to explicit. Both Joolz and Danny mentioned that my questions were guiding the viewer into making them believe what I wanted too.

Danny advised me to restructure my questions in my questionnaire and also look for appropriate images that matches the question. He also advised me to use unreal editor when experimenting with my next artefacts.

Note to self : You can't divorce other elements of space whilst looking at another one, Block never privileged any elements, so why should I? I should try and combine all of the elements and so to find out what are the key elements that often make people perceive spaces differently.

Tutors want to know what the experiment is and why have I done it?