Audience Identification

By doing a bit of research on Internet I have found out that Target audience shouldn’t be based only on age.
There are certain categories of our audience which we should also consider:

Gender
Age group
Ethnicity
Education
Religion

When it comes to my application It is going to be used for historical
exhibitions wherewe have choice of tour(difficulty?) either for kid or adult and additional games/quizzes.

I am not planning on adding tours for elder people as I consider them as adults. Even though their experience with technology will be lower
i am going to create app for adults easy to use with big touch of simplicty.

Comparing tours for kids and adults, there is obviously going to be less text and less complex games/quizzes etc. for kids, with a bit different approach from app to user.
for example: when using app as kid, you will hear more sounds towards you as to real kid, when as using as adult, you might hear you kids talking to you, and people talking to you more seriously.

My target Audience..
So, who really is my target audience?
I could say that from kids which are able to hold tablet in their hands and use it fluently to elder people not being afraid of how to learn using application.

While writing text above i got briliant idea of adding a little tutorial which could be turned on at any time and quickly explaining use of app.

First Idea for Project

Basically what i would like to create is a story line seperate for kids and adults. so at the beginning of tour you would choose on app if you are kid or adult (choice of male/female & boy/girl – to be considered).

Each one of these would be given a certain task. for example if you were a boy or girl, you would have list given by your mom to go to x shop and buy x items, see price of certain product etc etc. (for kids it would be more of a game). If you have picked adult, then it might be something similar but a bit complex. (these are just fresh ideas, and through out whole process it might be changed)

After picking your character of adult or kid, you would be welcomed to the streetlife.
I have decided to focus on the whole area of streetlife museum where shops are on the road, plane cars etc. (thats why i would call my project streetlife)
After starting the app you would hear sounds of cars, planes, people talking, etc from back in time. (on earphones) whenever entering the shops you would hear owner talking to you if he might help you in something, sound of other customers talking etc.

when entering shop, system will auto-remember which shop you went to in order to make quiz at the end and maybe for some more content. (to be considered..)

before entering any shop you get message on tablet “you are about to enter xx shop..” and with a little bit of story/history of the shop.

While walking round the museum, i would let visitors to use scan function, which allows them to point tablet on certain object and get extra information the tablet and maybe scanned object in 3d so they could move it around or video with it being used. (to be considered..)

I need to remember about augmented reality, audio tours as these two might be really useful. Or maybe apart from audio tours add sounds of streetlife to give visitors better experience.

When creating for kids i need to remember about:
-simplicity
-ease of use
-more pictures/audio and less text
-less complex quizz
-mini-games?

Solving Problems

During working on whole assignments there are always some problems which usually slow down whole process of development. While working on this project, I had few issues with some of the things.

First and quit big problem was using children images on my website.
At the beginning I was planning to use few pictures of kids playing around, having fun etc. But then after having conversation with my lecturer, I have decided to get rid of idea of using children images as there is ton of restrictions when using this type of images online.

But after some time, I have decided to do research on my own and actually find out what the problem is and what i should do.
And i have found out that there is a lot of things that i need to consider:

– child face shouldn’t be fully visible, and covered face with hands or any object would be more reasonable
– picture shouldn’t show kids doing any type of activity, specially when they are half naked, like in swimming or running. less body shown = better for me.
– no logos of any company should be visible (such as nike, adidas)
– no details about kids from the picture (name, surname, address etc) as their privacy is priority.

and there was few more things to consider but not so important.

SO i just went onto google and started to search for image that would fit my purpose yet being fully appropriate.
Now the image that you can see is what i have found, but it had to be edited in Photoshop, as there was one more kid and you could see face very clearly. SOLVED

This one i won’t consider as a problem but more as a time saver.
Basically when i was writing code for my learning and places to visit pages, there were containers which had to have exactly the same style (including containers inside that container)
What i have found out and was very very useful was using class for my Div tags instead of id. I haven’t ever used these before, so i just went onto http://www.w3schools.com website and had read about using class instead of id.

and just implemented it:

Here you can see part of html code from my Places to visit page. I have only used Id for ‘left-side’ container, which is whole left side of the main container. all the rest where you can see class being used is for one section (containing title, text, border and picture)

and this is the css code used for all six section (apart from #rightside)

This has really saved my time as all i had to do then was just copy and paste html code, paste in different pictures and write different titles and text for each section.

Another problem that i have faced was do to with what you can see below.

I wanted to put this little cartoon kid on top of the button (not as a one whole) inside another container, and then push button and kid to the top so his head would cross the border as you can see.

and that was a bit of a problem, because i didn’t have clue how to do it really.
I knew that i would have to use z-index function but i was unsure how it has to be done exactly.

and then i found these two useful pages which show exactly how i should do it:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Understanding_z_index/Stacking_without_z-index
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Understanding_z_index/Adding_z-index

what i have done wrong in here? Instead of spending two hours on how to do it and then eventually going onto internet to find out, i should have gone onto internet straight away and save time.

Using Children pictures on websites – restrictions + more

So i had a little bit of read on the internet, and when it comes to using children pictures on web page, there is tons of restrictions which i have to remember about.
– I can’t put any details of the child being used on my website. name, age, adress, ethnicity etc – none of these can’t be available.
– using pictures of children doing any kind of activity such as running, swimming is also very restricted and should be avoided.
– It is better to use pictures where child’s body is not visible, and clothes that they are wearing shouldn’t have any logos of producer.
– most important face of the child shouldn’t be 100% visible, and it is more acceptable when their face is covered.

This is the picture i am going to use.

But first of all i will be removing the kid on the right side, as her face can be seen and on the other hand removing her will be even better for me. why? kid on the left has tomato (red) and girl in the middle has oranges (orange).
these two fruits have the colours i am using on my website and on top of that, kid on the left has red shirt so that is even better.

These cartoon kids i am going to use as well on my website. And fortunately i have the right to use it

terms of using images from the website i have these cartoon kids.
http://www.wpclipart.com/terms.html

I am going to have a little bit of play with their dress and hair colour, and use few of these little cartoon humans to make my website more interesting and friendly looking.