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For my DSDN 112 project the main sense that I was looking to investigate more about is touch. I wanted to see how people would interact with different types of surfaces. After doing several test with different materials I came up with the conclusion that there is no generic way people will interact with each of the surfaces. No matter how you present it and which ever way the grain of the surface is people will want to interact with it in a means that is natural to the user.  I want the experience of my Multi Surface Board to be unique to the user and for them to use it how they want to. There is not one straight forward way people will interact with it so it can be unique to the user as they will want to do how they feel is right with this object.

I have attached an envelope to my board and inside it there will be a note that states how the people who I tested this experiment on used the board. And will say the they most common way people interacted with the surfaces.

Instruction

The instructions are simple

1. Put the letter aside and DO NOT OPEN IT BEFORE USE
2. Run your hand over each of the 6 different surfaces and remember which way you ran your hand over each one
3. When you have run your hand over all 6 surfaces then you can get the letter and open it and see what it says inside to see if the way you interacted with each surface is the same as other people

Finals

After i finished creating my interaction object I fully tested it and got some strange results.

When I tested my object at university, the results i got showed that most people preferred to run their finger against the grain.

BUT when i tested it at work with more people the results showed that most people preferred to run their finger with the grain.

I was very surprised by the results which i got from this experiment as i thought that most people would have gone against the grain.

Here are my Final 5 photos which i have chosen 

I decided to attach a envelope to the board so that i can have a letter inside which says that the majority of people will run their hand with the grain and ask the question if they were apart of the majority

different surfaces

For my final i have decided to use 6 different surfaces.

Wood

Rubber

Sandpaper

Paper

Metal

Clay

For each i am going to have the a different pattern on them and i am hoping that people will interact with them all differently

I am hoping that all of the textures would be interacted with differently and will prefer to either go against the grain which is in the rubber surface is going left to right or with the grain which would be top to bottom

So for my new project i am going to be testing how people interact with different surface textures when there is a straight line pattern on them.

Here id the layout of what i want my new project to look like. In each of the large box's there is going to be the surface on it. They are going to be approximately either 8cm x 8cm or 10cm x 10cm. 

Underneath each of the surfaces where is going to be something which says 'run hand over texture and then flip over' so the user should run their hand over the surface and then they will flip over a piece of paper which will say the statistic of the percentage of people do it in the way in which the grain is

Change in topic

After talking with Angela and Helen I have decided to change my idea for project. I am keeping some parts of it the same but it is mostly going to be changed.

I have completely got rid of the puzzle idea and i am just focusing on the ideas of lines.
When i was talking to Angela about my idea i noticed that she was stroking a pen which had lines which went right around the pen. It was sort of like the image bellow

She was stroking up and down the pen where the lines where. When i asked her if she could do the same but in the direction of the lines she said that it just doesn't feel right compared to the way which she was doing before.

My new idea is to see how people interact with different surfaces which have a series of lines on them. In my original idea i was going to have a segment of my puzzle which would have lines on it directing the user to turn in a specific way, bellow is an image of my experiment for it