Initial development Ideas

Today we brought five items to class and shared around what and why we brought the objects.

There was some very interesting objects, but my favourite was the jellybeans game where you skin a wheel and have to taste the colour jellybean that you are directed to eat. The trick was there was two colours that were the same, but one was nice tasting and another bad. I got rotten egg which was NOT good. At least I didn't get vomit.

We started brainstorming about a particular sense today. I was in the touch group, but I haven't decided what I am going to do yet. I know some things I definitely want to explore are:

1. A game of some type where people want to keep coming back to get the experience/see if they can do better

2. Test a reflex or automatic human reaction and why this might happen. I think the psychology background will help me, but also all of the things I have seen there have been done so might not be the best option.

Cole in our group had a great idea where you see an image which you can't touch and then you have to put your hand into something and try and find what you think the texture in the image will feel like, based on the photo. Very cool and I am interested to see how that one progresses.

Another was testing the fear response - perhaps having people put there hand in a box at there own risk and not know what will happen. One could have a little shock (or even just a sound of a shock) one could have nothing, one could be children's pilly putty, etc.

I am having trouble deciding on something that I dont think other people will think of. Lots of the good ideas have already been bounced around and many of us have thought of the box idea, taking sight away and playing with texture.

So far my best idea was to test the brain interacting between colour and the word - I thought of having a box with holes in it and a colour written in the wrong colour, and you have to put the coloured balls in the correct word, not colour or something like that. But I'm veering away from that because the idea of the colour word thing has been done a lot!

Still thinking...I will definitely be going through my psychology book.

I am currently researching different human reflexes e.g  The strange thing about the two types of tickling is that people can trigger knismesis in their own body, but not gargalesis. The inability for humans to self-tickle is hard to understand. Knismesis is basically when someone talks about nits or something itchy you start to itch. The tickling one is incredibly true, is it only because we know we are going to touch ourselves that we can't self tickle? The element of surprise because you can't control others fingers?Top ten human reflexes and natural instincts


The trouble with all of these things is that it is exploring a behaviour more than a reacting to a stimuli that has played with senses.