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Alcohol Consumption
Top Trumps - coming soon

Final Final online version

Click here to see my final version, no more changes will be made to anything now!

The guidlines for the project

[Project 2] (30% Individual)
Project 2 asks you to work individually to the context set in the tutorials and lectures. The nature of the assignment and the exact audience will be negotiated in tutorials. The project you device should address an identified need and operate within a broader community, it should critically address production and distribution issues raised in the lecture/tutorial sessions, such as open source and social networks. This may sound vague but all will be made clear in the lectures/tutorials.

Requirements:
A: Final production,
B: Individual 10 minute class presentation of production.

Deadline: Monday 12th March 2007. CD Copy to Faculty Office.

[Documentation] (20% Individual)
Individual documentation of the development of your ideas and production work. This should be in the form of comprehensive website. It should be well designed and include appropriate support technologies (blogs, database, etc). The exact nature of the documentation can be negotiated in tutorials.

Requirements:
A: Individual online documentation.

Deadline: Monday 19th March 2007. CD Copy to Faculty Office

Update!

Here is the new imporoved version!

Clicky clicky!

More for the project

I think I might make a few changes to my finished project, generally just how it looks and feels.
Stuff like roll-overs on the buttons, maybe a bit more of a background.
The other thing would be to add some more detail to it, maybe some more facts about what alcohol does to your body, reinforce the message a bit more.
I'll do this tomorrow, got to go to work now!

Reasons behind the project

It has occurred to me that I haven't put up a major part of my research and development, so here it is:

I'll write it out here too, make it easier to read.

Raises drink awareness to young adults

• There is a need for this because drinking is becoming a larger problem.
• There are awareness programmes out there, but the majority seem to tell the user what to do instead of making it a fun and interesting learning process.
• This program aims to put the problems across in a more friendly way. For example, it suggests cutting down on alcohol consumption to save money. This relates directly at university students, a key group of the target audience.
• Target Audience: Young Adults, particularly university students.
• This could also be developed for a younger audience (15-18), as this is where the problem starts.
• Productions and Distribution: Most people have Internet access so this makes an online interactive program an increasingly accessible means of distribution. The only thing that would help this, would be advertisement.
• Another development for this would be to pair up with a larger well-known help organisation, such as Bupa.
  

Finished Product

My finished product!

http://www.halfyardmedia.com/files/uniprojects/UnitConsumption.html

Have a lookie!

Testing

Here is a photo of some of my testing.
This helped me realise that I had a few typos and had set the maximum characters to 2, not allowing people to enter values like 2.5! Whoops!

More planing

Even more planing for the project:



And some more planing, this time, for the maths functions.

Basis for the coding

I have made some notes to help me with the coding of my project, this will help to keep me on track!

New idea

After the research not going as well as I would have hoped. I thought about changing my idea. The main problem with finding decent information on the internet is knowing whether you can trust it or not. A lot of it isn't reliable, and it can also be out of date.

Therefore, I moved onto the toping of drinking, and the weekly limits we are meant to put on ourselves. I thought I would make a program that lets you calculate how many alcohol units you consume within a week by entering how many drinks you have had during that week. I thought this would be an excellent thing for students as they are possible the nations biggest drinkers!

Here are some notes from my workbook about the layout ideas:

Original Idea, developed

This is a diagram of my original idea in development:

I also did some research about food facts, not as successfully as I would have liked:

teentwist.com/Fun/randomfacts.html:

Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

A prune is a dried plumb.

Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span

http://www.hungrymonster.com/FoodFacts/Food_Facts.cfm?Phrase_vch=Health&ttl=22:

How the granny smith apple got its name?

The tart green apples were first grown by gray-haired grandma Maria Ann Smith in a subrb of Sydney Australia.

http://www.tea.co.uk/teafacts.php:

Data collated over more than ten years found that drinking 4 cups or more every day of Britain's favourite brew could be more beneficial than drinking water!

http://www.stunning-stuff.com/list-funny-facts/6.html:

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.

http://onemansblog.com/2007/01/05/trivia-forty-four-fantastic-food-facts/

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

 To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Carrots have zero fat content.

Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/

If you’re fat, you eat too much!

High calcium diet help you to not put on as much weight in fat.

Detox diets don’t improve natural detox processes

Better to sit at a table to eat

Snacking can make you more productive than eating large meals.

Bloggy blog blog blog - Individual project!

Well, done loads of work on my project, ideas have changed, but I haven't been blogging, naughty me!

This is a brain storm of my original ideas.
My first idea was to do a game about food truths, like a true or false click through game.

Almost finished! Woo

Well, just doing the final touches to our work now. We've decided to do a paper copy of the game too, to show the connection between a much loved game and the computer version. We thought this would be a good idea for young children to give them more confidence on a computer.

We're found this piece of coursework a challenge, although we are now very happy with what we have achieved!

This is the finished product:
Clicky!!!

If we had more time, we would have added the legends cards to the deck and tweaked with the interface to make it better!

Hope you enjoy!

Em x

Top Trumps

Top Trumps was our original group idea for our interactive media project.

In the group there is:

• Louise Mertens
• Chris French
• Me - Emma Elliott

We thought this was a good idea as it is an easy way to give people an insight into our topic of world leaders. Usually world leaders is not seen as an interesting topic, so by making this game we hom we can bring more enjoyment into this area.

Top trumps is an excellent game for children too, so this game could be used to help introduce world leaders to children attending school as an educational game.

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So far from our idea we have started the design process, trying to get as much information into such a small amount of space is starting to prove itself to be a challenge!

We're going to have a go at putting the flag of the country of the world leaders on the cards as a background. Hopefully this will give people another piece of information to latch onto to aid learning and understanding.