Final Presentation

We were very pleased with yesterday's presentation and demo. A lot of people came by our station and spent quite some time interracting with our windwall even though we were a little dissapointed that there weren't a lot of kids at the demo. It seemed that the fan was a big success among older people and almost everyone said that it was a good touch.

Yesterday, we all agreed that we achieved our goal we set with our windwall. That is people would walk up to the windwall willing to explore it and interract with it anyway they wanted. We wanted children to approach the unknown and explore/experiment to figure out the mechanics of something abstract but also collaborate on discovering more or making use of the abstract, either by having the "expert" pass on knowledge of what he knew to a "newcomer" or for groups to achieve self-directed goals together. Yesterday, we observed people trying to make music, others were chasing the magic tile. Some were trying to cover the whole wall with spinning tiles and others were just curiously waiting for the fan to turn on.

Batteries proved to be a big issue and we didn't expect to use so many batteries. Here's a picture that shows some of the batteries we used.