Proposal (Draft 1)

Student Name:	Christopher Seymour
Module Title:	Major Project in Interactive New Media
Title / Subject matter:	FOOTSTEPS (WORKING TITLE)
Submission Date:	06/11/2009
Description: For the final major project, I will reflect on my learning during the second year and explore the theme of play. Whilst the application, Director was useful, I'm going to take on the challenge of learning a global, user generated application called Processing.  Interface is going to be an important factor to my game where each move will rely on footsteps or action. Designated for children, my application will be designed for a playroom for young children. The aim would be to so that children of a young age are able to build on their memory skills as well as correctly assigning sounds with images. A sound will play and the child would then match that with an image on the pad but increasingly becoming more intense, only so much that a child will be able to mentally challenge. This would coincide and requires a lot of research into a disorder known as 'Synesthesia' where people's senses are triggered to match at certain points triggered in their brain i.e they would smell 'x' when they hear 'x'. Research suggests that children routinely exhibit cross-modal associates very early in their lives. When presented with auditory stimuli followed by visual ones, infants were found to make preferential mappings of values from one sensory modality to those of the other. With that in mind, I feel as though I should soley concentrate on infants as a learning material as opposed to widening the application so that adults are able to use it as well.
Objectives: -    TO EFFECTIVELY LEARN THE 'PROCESSING' APPLICATION TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE SO THAT IT MAY BE USED TO UNDERTAKE THIS PROJECT. -    CREATE A CHILDREN'S APPLICATION THAT WILL BE PERCIEVED AS A GAME BUT ALSO ACT AS A PIECE OF LEANING MATERIAL. -TO MAKE SURE I KEEP MY DOCUMENTATION OF RESEARCH AND EXAMPLES THAT I HAVE FOUND UPDATED REGULARLY, MORE SO THAN DONE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. THIS WILL TAKE SHAPE AS A WEB BLOG
Assessors Comments: It needs alot of work on its grammar and what not, and also Garrett says it has quite a bit needing done to it. But hopefully, I'll have a decent enough proposal for Friday :)