PETPET adopts everyday leftover plastic packaging by taking picture of users’ food ,and then convert to a virtual pet in their personal mobile devices. It’s like a tamagotchi, the original digital pet, that your cares toward the pet have effects on the pet, instead, in Petpet, the breakdown process shows impact on users’ devices.It’s designed for school teachers who want to teach children sustainability in an interesting way or environmental organizations for public campaigns.
We spoke about this in class, but you can just start the app on the view with all the PETs and the + button. There’s no need to have an additional way to do that. It seems that many people using the app will just want to look at their PETs directly anyways.
Also, it’d be helpful if you labelled your wireframe views to correlate with your app map. It makes it easier to understand where each view is in the hierarchy of the app, and it makes it easier to be clear about what view I’m responding to.
I think that the scope of the project for your thesis is good and will be accomplishable but challenging. I’m wondering though if there’s going to be a ton for you to explore over the next few weeks of this project. You’ll want to really cover all the details: document all the PET breakdown behavior. Perhaps create timelines showing how that would work. Or perhaps at least, you could show several frames of the that screen over time to show how it would look and what would change.
I’m not totally sure that you’re going to be able to do instant plastic recognition with your camera still. Since you’re planning on actually implementing this, I’d challenge you to prove that to me by finding the exact libraries that you’re planning on using. If that’s not going to work, maybe you need additional interface or time for ‘processing PETs’ and alerting users when their PET has been fully identified.
I wonder if users will ever even try to take pictures of non-plastic things. Why would they? Is there some way to more explicitly encourage users to do that?
You mentioned environmental advocacy groups as your user group. How do you imagine them using the app in their education efforts?