Adele’s email

I received an email with feedback from my proposal presentation, in which she says “I and the team are very impressed with your presentation and plan”, this is very encouraging at the moment. In her suggestions and ideas she mentions linking the application to these web learning resources that the gallery currently offers:

http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?jpageid=2280&journeyid=509

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=531

http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?jpageid=518&journeyid=147

This would be inappropriate within a standalone kiosk based application. If you give the user the ability to navigate away from your application, they may walk away from the kiosk leaving the screen showing something other than your application, or even worse it may give them the opportunity to open inappropriate web pages. These are just a couple of problems that this may cause and I will explain that to my client at the next meeting. If this application is further developed for web use at a later date, these links could be added to that version of the application.

Adele also suggested looking at the link below to help with the interactive self portrait:

http://www.mylearning.org/interactive.asp?journeyid=144&resourceid=194

Adele and her team do not believe that allowing the user to take a picture of themselves qualifies as a self portrait and it is my belief that they are not completely sold on the idea of a plain webcam picture been art. Adele mentioned in our meeting about users being able to add effects or drawing over the webcam image, but I tried to explain that that is basically what the 2^nd year web students are creating for their project and it would not be appropriate for me to do the same. It is my belief that Adele did not quite get the idea I proposed in terms of its modern interactive artistic appeal. My idea is not about the individual image taken within the main application, it is about the constantly changing random images of the application’s users being displayed as a record of their use of the application and their visit to the gallery. Hopefully it would show the dynamic of users; their different ages, races, sexes and individuality constantly changing as a new dimension of portraiture for the twenty-first century.