I will be in University this week with the aim of finishing the practical elements of this project in prep for my viva. All of the hardware is complete and tested, the only things that are left to finish are programming extra elements of the character that include the script for the presentation and voice rec interaction. I will be working on a story placement for the character, this is something I have not engaged with until now because I wanted to have a complete model to work with when augmenting the character in a series of storyboards. I have mentally kept a track of some ideas for this project and how I would place it within a genre, aesthetics, ambience, styling ect. I will produce these story boards digitally using my wacom tablet as this has proven an effect approach in past projects. It would be nice to write a short script for the character and have the robot recreate a short scene with a series of movement and interaction, but this will have to be done within the projects time frame.
Feelings: I am feeling a little anxious at the moment as I'm still waiting on my viva date, however, I have got a large part of my presentation finished and it feel like there is a good balance between my parts and the robots parts.
Evaluation: This session has been interesting, it's starting to feel like I am now working with another person all of a sudden, especially as I am writing dialog for both me and Aldous. I think if I can pull this presentation off it will certainly be entertaining if anything. I have also noticed some damage on the robot that was not there when I left for the Christmas holidays, it looks like the aluminium neck bracket has some how been bent and the paint has chipped around the edges. I have no clue how this has occurred or if an accident took place and the damage was a result of this. The damage however is repairable and is not too noticeable unless like me you have knew exactly how it looked before. This was also going to be an issue with taking the robot into uni as it very tempting for people to want to play around with it.. which I have sort of encouraged whilst I was in the room. Maybe this was not such a good idea in light of the damage to the neck rotational bracket.
Analysis: The project makes sense, I would like to really work on getting the flash power point finished and maybe get some of the trigger words working with the voice rec set up. I was thinking specific words could be used to trigger the robot into conversation like 'Baudrillard' as its a unique name and I can then work that into a sort of performance piece between me and Aldous.
Conclusion: In conclusion, apart from the minor damage and the nerves associated with having to do a presentation it is nice to have been back in uni again for a few weeks, I have missed it over the holidays. I am going to try and get as much done tomorrow as I can before I have to set off back home as I have late 12 hour night shift at work. Once I get all of the bits of dialog for Aldous finished I can simply just work on my own stuff at my own rate as I go along until the date of the presentation.
Action Plan: Get presentation finished, work on it, perform it.. and get it running like clockwork.
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