Sunday, August 7, 2011

Research Project - Day 1 - 8/8/2011

Today we formed our groups. Brent, Luke and I all formed a group. Our topic for this assignment is sustainability. We chose to base our project around sustainability in the home. We are focusing on one room which will be the bedroom. We chose to do only one room of the house because that way we could provide a more detailed response.

We decided to make the bedroom into a 3D environment. We will construct the room using photos, we chose to use photos as this will give the user a more realistic environment to explore. The user will navigate the 3D environment and select certain objects in order to turn them on and off and find additional information on the item. For example: If the user clicked a light switch, it would turn the light switch off and a text box would display the amount of energy that can be saved by turning a light switch off.


Here is a list of the items we are currently planning to include into the bedroom:

Room: Bedroom

• Light switch/curtains
-Appropriate times to have it on (when/duration)

• Computer
- Screen brightness (PC)
-Ordering online

• Electronics
-Running appliances
• -Power/user usage (Switches and Adapters)
-Battery types

• Rubbish (Bin type)

• Temperature settings/Insulation
¬¬-Heaters, coolers

• Light bulbs

• Plastics/Materials

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