week2 contact session : brainstorm of Trove

In this week contact session，I come up with four ideas about concept by using data from trove. The main purpose is that using data from trove to do some interesting and meaningful things that can interact with people. We are not creating a search engine instead make the concept to be engaging.

Brainstorming ideas:

1.     A website provides map from different countries, the map can be divided into grid, and user can click each grid cell and see more information about this place (photos about people, animal, building, etc.)

This idea is for anyone who want to know more about our living environment, and learn more knowledge about some particular place. The goal is increase people’s interest in explore and understanding our world.

2.     A website provides photos about locations, user guess where it is by input words, if user is right, he will get score, if user is wrong, the information about that place will display.

This is a playful idea that can teach people more knowledge about different locations, such as history. The goal is increase people’s interest in explore more interesting place in the world. Similar idea with first one.

3.     A website shows some blurred photos, user will guess what it is by input words, the more words matching, the clearer the photo will become. This is another kinds of playful idea, but not only focus on location, but also other things.

4.     A website provides music, user can listen to the music, meanwhile guess the year and type of the music. The answer will show to user after the music has finished playing. This idea is for some people who want to test their music knowledge or want learn more knowledge about particular music. The goal is help people to explore music world, in the meantime, they also can enjoy the music.

Improves:

I really like my first idea, when I showed it to Lorna, she gives me one suggestion. The first part of the concept is great, but when we thinking about the way that put place information into our project, it’s may increase my workload, so is there any other way to input the place information into my project? I come up one idea which is add one search bar, let user search some information, then a list some related information about that place that he clicked, then user can drag the information into that grid cell, when other user come this website and click same grid cell, the information about that place which added by other people will shows on the screen.