No more obstacles

There is too many things going on in our project now so instead of having and making obstacles, we are using the whole Carrolls building as our maze and using the sat nav to tell the children were to go.
We are still going to have the questions and answer but they are going to be placed in booths around the building.
While on the sat nav there will be a narration telling a story of how and why you must go to each booth and perhaps collect a certain amount of objects on the way.
We shall have the narration of our story up tomorrow too hopefully something about monkeys and bananas . . . . . still sticking with the jungle theme as the jungle is big and mysterious which I think will draw our audience in!

Technology side

we thought for a while about the technology part of our project first we were going to just have loads of computers placed around the maze instead from using a satellite navigation system we can have a hand held device that can be carried around by the child and when they get to a trigger point beside the obstacle it will beep and the questions will show on the screen.
There is a link somewhere but i can't find it i will put it up again here are some images instead :D

Here is a sat nav but as our idea is for kids we would change it a bit to look like this . . . . 

Roles

Project Manager - Lisa
Designer - Niamh - Joseph
Audio - Lucie - Niamh
Programmer - Joseph
Interactions - Lisa - Lucie
Set up - everyone

some pictures of animals and fruit to use

from reading about 8-10 year old they like thing that are bold colourful and realistic we thought of this while drawing these pictures.

next we went back to think about more obstacles one idea was to have balloons tied to strings and for the child to go through the balloons, another was have hola hoops along the ground or tires, have tunnels that the child has to go through with balloons inside the tunnel. . . .

these are other ideas of obstacles we have.

Forgot these

I forgot to add in a few ideas that we came across that help with our theme and the way we want this project to be seen. .  here are some pictures...

Link on the development of children

This is how we came to the conclusion of choosing 8-10 year olds as well as looking up a book called
500 activities for the primary classroom this gave me an idea of what different age groups know.

Other links are . . . .
development milestone - http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pdfs/fcs465.pdf

age and stage appropriate

we were also told to download aisteir from one of the 4th years studying early childhood development.

questions

The next thing to think about now is the questions we want the children to answer and how they while answer them in a fun and simple way.
Our target audience has been changing around a good bit but right now we are sticking with 8 - 10 year olds as the are enthusiastic, can understand the questions and also lively enough to run around and hopefully not get bored here are some of the questions that we have thought of.

For the 1st one we will have 4 boxes each with different types of fruit and the child must smell the fruit and identify which fruit it is before going into the obstacle course.

The 2nd one consists of a colour appearing on the screen that co insides with another fruit which the child as to get right to progress.

The 3rd one is a trigger will sensor automatically the sound will play and the child has to choose which sound they think the animal belongs to.

The 4th is more boxes but this time with textures or objects inside of them that the child has to feel and choose out of 3 things what they think the texture of object is.

This is what we have so far but it is likely too change along the way as we research deeper.

interactive sensors

www.interactivefurniture.de

this website gave me a great idea to use different types of sensors in our maze to make the experience seem more real and easy flowing.

pictures

and here are some pictures that helped us think of the maze and structure . . . .

I liked this image as it is a halloween maze that an office worker done 

www.flickr.com/photos/danielweber/sets 

some obstacle course ideas that we had!

How they look . . . . .

these are simple pics of how our idea is planning on working with the entrance and also an over head view of the maze.

Start of our idea . . . . .

The idea that we came up with is to make an interactive obstacle course maze for kids. Also to have questions based on the different senses throughout the course. The theme throughout this course is going to be a jungle theme.

We have been thinking of materials we would need to make this and thought that bamboo shoots would work best as they are long and flexible.

Some ideas for using the senses were :

Sight - illusions
Sound - animals/jungle
Smell - have 2 different smells to choose from
Touch - texture eg. wood/sand
Taste - fruit or sweets

Different types of obsticals that we thought of are :
Elastic bands/ String
Sticks
Smoke ?? (not to sure as it's for kids)
Lights
Wind/ Fan that give out a bit of water

Our Group

We have form our multimedia project management team and it is . . .

Lisa Macken
Niamh Trainer
Joe Murphy
Lucie Bellot