At last! Version 3 of the defining and structuring tool is finished!
(It will be test with some of the 3rd year tmr.) Let's see how that goes.

Here is some picture of it

Concept sheet

This is where the user draw their ideas down and then write something about it

(Names and what does it do)

Relation Sheet & Rules

The relation sheet is use for placing in the concept sheet and use it to identify what kinds of input and output the idea is used by using the Relation Cards

Condition Cards

These cards outline the basic conditions that can be selected by the user. If there is none that the user want, they can simple make a new condition

Output Cards

List of possible outputs and how they can be used. This is used in conjunction with the condition cards

Blank Condition cards

This is the card that the user would use if they cannot find anything that matches their condition

Blank output

Same principle with the blank condition cards. Use by the user who cannot find their desired output

Relation cards (input)

These are the cards that stated what kind of things that the idea will be used as an input. This will be used with the relation sheet

Relation cards (Output)

Same as the Relation cards (Input) but this is the output version

Basically it is consisted of a concept sheet, Relation sheet, Relation cards, Condition cards and Output cards (You can see the title of each one in the slideshow, some version of it is not define. This means that if the users cannot find anything that match their needs then they can invent new ones. It is also a way for me to rapidly develop the toolkit as well.

Below are the picture of how it will look now. Once I try these out tomorrow, I should have an idea of how useful these actually are. Well, I hope for the best.

Here are some image of the third version of what could be inside the prototyping pack
Basically this is a way to give the user of the pack and idea of how they can start thinking about interaction through some programming term like conditionally.

I intended to make this like a game where the user have to find the 'right' piece and then piece them together. This first version contained four parts which are the input cards, output cards, argument cards (<,>,=) and condition board.

The input cards contain generic input such as light intensity, sensing push, touch, force, temp, humidity and distance
The output cards contains output such as Light, Sound, Motor, Text, Email, Fan
Argument cards are < (less than), > (More than), = (equal to)
The conditional boards are basically boards that contain if then statement

Then I started to test out some idea of how these thing might play out and so I asked some people to write up some stupid, quick ideas and try to see whether they work or not. I still have to try them out with the 3rd year students and see how well this played out. (Sorry for the absurdity of the idea anyways)

The problem with them are the fact that they are a bit too long and I think there is no real connection between the input and the output cards (The connection between the If and the then is still missing). I think I have to made it in a way that that the user have to find the output to place under the input. I can even make the input card called the If card and then the output called the 'Then' card.

That again, might lead to some complication with some idea that might not required if & else statement (basically just output). I will tried to check these with some user anyways.

Defining and structuring tool v3

Instruction testing

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