This is a quick mock-up to test the flow, done in Denim to get some visual structure.

Click to test it:

Views on the process so far.

-More dialogue about taste. Tn a restaurant they may be more likely to ask for the taste of what you would like to eat. And they may suggest starter, wines and dessert according to your choice of main course. Taste preferences could be salt, sweet, juicy, dry, grilled, fruity etc.. or pork, fish, salmon, cod, tout, duck, chicken, steak etc.

- Clearer sender. FIVH? WHO? The Panic button is not that relevant? The goal seem to be that people should plan ahead, so why the panic button?

- What type of person should the dialogue be based on? Should it be based on a person? We talked about politeness and coaching (butler + personal coach at the gym). A popular "food-person" is Jamie Oliver, and he is not exactly a butler, nor a personal coach, but he hits a lot of different people. People tend to respond positive to someone with a few quirks. A dialogue may become more human with than without quirks. A polite "food-person" would be the Swedish TV-cook Tina Nordström, who also are widely liked, but may be a bit to nice? Daniel likes her. I don't :-)

- Maybe tie the dialogue to a concrete person? With pictures and introduction? Daniel think there is more freedom in writing the dialogue in text only. Then users can use their own imagination. I agree.

- The dialogue structure will be card-based (like in old Hypercard, or Apple Media Tool) and written in Processing.

Not quite, but close :-)

"Hugo Liu, a graduate student at I.T.'s Media Lab, has developed a cookbook that can recommend a dish on the basis of some of the tastes and emotions commonly associated with it. An artificial intelligence robotic reader reads each recipe and based on tastes of the ingredients and the types of cooking procedures, predicts how a food will look, taste, and smell."



Via Articulating Cravings , We-make-money-not-art

Cleaned up a bit...

A rough sketch for the flow of the dialogues. The sender of this service may be an organisation or government who's goal is to increase the level of consciousness about ecological awareness in society. In this case specified to what the single person/family can contribute - buying local food, that hasn't been transported around the globe. Also a health perspective (healthy food = healthy people = better use of social/society recourses = ecology).

The user profile should ease the access for returning users. It contain the details you have entered earlier, and wouldn't have to bother with profiling the user every time. She/he can specify his/her goal with the use of this service - be it economical-, health- or ecological/enviromental goals. when used, the database knows what season of the year it is, and what location the user live in, and could then suggest meals according to availability of groceries and local good.

I imagine this could be a sound future-service, combined with on-line fridges and food with RFID-tags. Then you could link your profile directly to your fridge and it instantly knows what you have in stock, and the "panic" button flowchart path would be even shorter :-) (PANIC!-> "ok, do this:")

That was the grand vision of the full featured version.... i guess I will make a smaller version to begin with :-)


The dialogue and language have to be able to motivate the user to contiue with this. The user may have an above average level of concern about the environment or his/her health. Hi/She have access to internet, and is willing to make an effort. Probably higher education.

The language should not be snobbish or posh. This should be as a blend between the personal trainer at the gym, and a butler. Allways polite, informative but not dull, not to much small talk, and not to pushy. The main goal is to educate and motivate. The dialogue in practice will be done by multiple choice questions/options, not by language-recognition A.I. It would be nice to have some option in changing the pace according to what situation you are in as you use the service (are in a hurry, or want to use more time).

Click on picture for larger version (1024x768)

Brainstorm for my project

- Continue on the craftsmancentral-project.
- The Computer Computer Helper
- Recipe advices (food mentor)
- Home services central (gardening, cleaning, childcare, car-wash etc.)

Hm.. I think I'll go for the "Food Mentor". This will be as a dialogue with an experienced chef that talks a language that normal people can understand. Suggests dishes from the ingredients you say you have at home, or based on your level of cooking-skills or for a special occasion. It may also help you plan a whole weeks dinners.

The finished dialog-task with Åge Wedøe. How would we construct a computerbased/web-based first contact interface for potential customers for house refurbishment?

(Click here to download a pdf-version for print)

Notes from lecture with Daniel. Not edited.

Some of the callenges:

1. how to balance/combine the use of prescripted storytelling techniques (multiple choice) and artificial intelligence (logic, memory and algorithms.)
2. balance the number of choices
3. what mediatypes/senses to use
4. how concrete/abstract

(book: "The Paradox of Choice", good personal reading, not that relevant in this project)

eksempel på nsb talegjenkjennings-system for bilettbestilling.... ikke bra.. :-)
enkelt: si avreisested, adesitinasjon og dato + tidspunkt....

Another example: www.lifeswitch.org Dialog with some challenges. christian organisation... encurages people to travet to certain destinations, they may be pay your ticket if you work for them aome time?

Chris Crawford: Interactive design
multiple choice stories:
- a.b.c.d.
- a few more options and the treestructure is vastly encreased. much more interactivity, but the quality often goes down, (and cost goes up)
- foldback
- kill them if they stray (not user friendly, cheap in many ways)
- obstructionist stories (sequences, but you have to get/solve something to get to next step)
- combination (most projects tries to combine these, link them together. monky island.)
- linkmeshes


www.maxbaron.no/kid.html (interaction without words)
www.screenplay.no/develop/alko_demo/ (interaction with movie)

Bots:(Artificial Intelligence)
www-ai.ijs.si/cgi-bin/eliza_script
www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1


The Jack Principles
extensive dialog specufy wjat you answered to in feedback
open ended qs.
speech output, easy to time when user have got the feedback.
shared control.

iCi- experience

cinematic feeling
sens of you talking to somebody

guidelines:
- mantaining pacing
- create the illusion of awareness
- mantaining the illusion of awareness

Plyed Buzz (quiz-show) on playstation2.

Workshop-oppgave. Andre, Line, Stig, Jørn og jeg. (in norwegian only)

spørsmål, hva ...

webside, tjeneste for å få tak i håndtverkere, få råd, kartlegge hva som skal gjøres, på hvolken måte og til hvilken pris?

tillti. har man fått noen til å ringe, har man dem... ikke skriv ring våre selgere... hvem vil ringe en selger frivillig?! navn, bilde etc kanskje på hve som tar telefonen i andfre enden.

Spørsmål:

- hva vil du gjøre?
- akutt! hjemp meg NÅ!
- mindre repartasjon
- oppussing
- større oppussing

- Hvor lenge har du bodd der da?
- Kommer du til å bo der lenge?
- Skal du kanskje selge leiligheten etter oppussingen?

- Hvem skal bruke ::::: som du skal pusse opp?
- hvor mange er dere i husholdet?
- barn?

- er du mann eller kvinne?
- alder?

- leid håndtverkere før?

- var du fornøyd med jobben de gjorde?
- hvilken type jobb var det? (12345)

- vil du dele på jobben?
- være tilgjengelig selv for ufaglært arbeid?
- gjøre mesteparten av forarbeid selv
- gjøre mesteparten av etterarbeid selv?

- Har du tenkt på når du vil at oppussingen skal skje?
- Hvilket budsjett har du?
- hvor lang tid ser du for deg at det vil ta?
- jeg vil få det gjort i påskeferien når huset likevel ikke brukes... går det?
- vi er urolige for at det blir velidg ubekvemt å bo der samtidig som oppussingen foregår...
- vil vi kunne bruke dusjen under veis?
- kan vi gå på do?

- Vet du hvordan du vil ha det?
- vil du se på noen eksempler så vi har noe å prate rundt?
- hvikle av disse eksemplene kommer nærmest den typen bad du vil ha?
- har du tenkt ut alt allerede hvordan du vi ha det?
- vil du ha hjelp av noen som vet mye om bad?
- Hvor lang tid kommer det til å ta?
- hva er det som kommer til å koste mest?
- prioriteringsrekkefølge?

- Vanligste fallgruve - ex: hva finner vi når vi åpner gulvet?
- uforutsette ting

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• sende inn bilde på prosjektet
• håndtverker får komme hjem på befaring
• forum , andre brukere pros and cons


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- å tenke på senere:
- oppfølgingsbesiktning?
- rabatter på forsikring

- eksempler på rom, plansøsning
- 4 vanlige typiske planløsninger. alternativet ingen av delene. tegn egen?
- har du tenkt på å ta ned en vegg for å endre planløsningen?

detaljer:
- hav vil du ha med?
- badekar?
- dusjkabinett?
- en eller to vasker?
- vaskemasin/tørketrommel? eller begge?

hvilke materialer?
- fliser?
- skifer?
- glassbetong?
- murpuss?
- tapet?
- vil du ha noen tips om steder i nærheten der man kan se på innredninger?

- info om vanlige ting man ikke vet. FAQ
- de vanligste vrangforestillingene
- råd for den viderekomne
-
- få inn info om denne "samtalen" først. hvorfor, hvordan og hvor lang tid.... ?

- hvem er våre håndtverkere?
- hvordan plukker vi ut dem?
- hvilke kriterier?
- hva sier tidligere "brukere"

- garanti
- ettersyn

"Why?" and Loveletters... (norwegian notes)

vktig stikkord: "HVORFOR"
metafor: kjærlighetsbrev - skrives for å fortelle at man elsker noen, men hva skirver man? hva man ønsker å fortelle, eller hva man tror mottegeren vil lese?

A - attention
I - interesst
D - desire
A - action

eksempel: reklameoverskrift: "ny mercedes -50%, gjelder i dag kl 11-13" inneholder alle disse AIDA.
Sjekking på byen fungerer likedan.
Kommunikasjon med barn (man kan aldig starte med det man vil oppnå)

attention: er lettest å få
interest: vanskeligere - ofte må man trenge igjennom mye skepsis. kan man bedøve skepsisen ltt til å komme igjennom?

oppgaver:
*** prediagnose-skjema for fastlege via internett.

*** reiselivs-guide/reisebyrå. sprsml om hva man vil gjøre hvor i norge. må trenge gjennom mange skepsiser, fordommer, lofoten?! hva er det? er det ok vær der? snør det om sommeren? hva holder de på med? har folk et bilde av lofoten fra før, og kan man trenge igjennom det? er det mye vind? og kandet være posotivt? kitesurfing-mekka? man må forholde seg til hva folk har for fordommer.

*** håndtverker guide. hva skal gjøres, hvor, hvem kan gjøre det. hva koster det? hva skal man spørre om?


mange tjenester må tilrettelegges for alle...
hvordan stille spørsmål og i hvilken rekkefølge for å få svar på det man er ute etter.

tre på hver gruppe: én er bruker, én agerer tjenesten og én noterer.

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