Today was our first milestone for the project and was the first wide-scale opportunity for us as a team to elicit feedback from the faculty as a whole. Small groups of faculty spent about 20 minutes each in our project room, listened to a short overview of our project, and then spent the rest of the 20-minute period offering feedback.

Feedback was generally positive regarding our project and the faculty seems really excited with our ideas so far. Overwhelmingly, the faculty gravitated toward our Jars concept because they instantly understood it and connected with it. The Scales idea was tougher to communicate and the faculty expressed that they just didn’t care much about it. One issue with it is that while it absorbs information about a space, it displays that information back in a different language in a format that isn’t the most pleasing to the eye.

The faculty encouraged us to dig deeper in the Jars concept, to find a more apt title, and to consider how it would be used in a long term. We also received many recommendations to submit this idea to conferences such as SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies.

Needless to say, we are excited about the reception and eager to move forward!