Scitories
The Snowpore story takes the audience to the melting world of a polar bear, a bright day of storytelling that turns down to a place of silence.
WHERE
MA Final Degree Project
RESEARCH
Usability study, gamification and storytelling
TOOLS
Unity. Wix, Github, Spatial Sound
Illustrator, Photoshop, Zbrush
MADE BY
Riya Patel
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MA Final Degree Project
RESEARCH
Usability study, gamification and storytelling
TOOLS
Unity. Wix, Github, Spatial Sound
Illustrator, Photoshop, Zbrush
MADE BY
Riya Patel
Skip to outcome
Scitories is a platform to share science-related stories. These experiences use elements of storytelling to communicate the adverse effect of climate change. The Snowpore story takes the audience to the melting world of a polar bear, a bright day of storytelling that turns down to a place of silence. Followed by a brief set of reading that the audience can then take away with them.
Knowing that the world that they have entered is an abstract representation of somewhere real. The audience will be able to navigate an abstract immersive world of Snowpore in the melting snow hosted by a polar bear named Poba, with virtual web and spatial sound. The audience can navigate the Snowpore world while the instructor briefly narrates them the story. Aiming to give the agency to the audience to shape their own journey.
Target audience
Young adults who are interested in the topics of Art and Science.
Research
Literature research:
The detailed writing on the research findings can be found on my blog here.
The detailed writing on the research findings can be found on my blog here.
- Artistic Visualization of scientific processes
- Attention economy through Information hierarchy
- Learning through immersive adventure
- New media exploration Research 3D Visualization in science
Ethics
For the evaluation of the platform and the story, I reached out to several peers and officially emailed them with the contest of using their feedback and received a consent from them to use it.
Constraint
The real life simulations need a lot of processing power which is beyond the scope of the project.
For the evaluation of the platform and the story, I reached out to several peers and officially emailed them with the contest of using their feedback and received a consent from them to use it.
Constraint
The real life simulations need a lot of processing power which is beyond the scope of the project.
Medium
An interactive VR experience on the web. followed by an optional reading via Pdf download. The choice of adding another layer of medium through a reading list was made to consider the prevention of switching the attention of the audience as well. While the audience is in the virtual world they will be able to navigate through these abstract experiences and they can further go through more information, this will also help repetition.Visual Identity
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Moodboard
Scitories - the website
This is a platform where the Audience can come scroll around to see interesting glimpse of stories and the conversations that follow.
Audience journey:
The journey of the audience starts at the Scitories webpage. The journey mapping tool was used to define several stages of the audience navigating through the stories.
The journey of the audience starts at the Scitories webpage. The journey mapping tool was used to define several stages of the audience navigating through the stories.
Information roadmap:
This tool was used to brainstorm all the information the audience will receive through each step of the journey and the information was further chunked to make sure it is cognitively compatible for the audience.
This tool was used to brainstorm all the information the audience will receive through each step of the journey and the information was further chunked to make sure it is cognitively compatible for the audience.
Wireframing
The wireframe was made on invision freehand. An easy to digitally sketch the pages of the audience’s journey and a convenient tool to invite anyone for feedback.
The wireframe was made on invision freehand. An easy to digitally sketch the pages of the audience’s journey and a convenient tool to invite anyone for feedback.
Prototype
The prototype was made on Invision as well, the prototype is clickable and helped in initial visualisation of the website.
The prototype was made on Invision as well, the prototype is clickable and helped in initial visualisation of the website.
Snowpore : Story of a melting home
Inspiration
In front of the Tate Modern, I saw the ‘Ice Watch’ melting icebergs in space so close to humans that they could see and touch. It was a powerful message on climate change by Olafur Eliasson. but after the ice melted the people got back to everyday life like a passer by. The Ice story came to my mind because I wanted to take the audience to the melting world of a polar bear, a bright day of storytelling that turns down to a place of silence. Followed by a brief set of reading that the audience can then take away with them to read.
Level design
I completed the course in level designer Adam Crespi.The space is designed keeping in mind that the audience gets attention resources to explore around and there are elements in the space scattered for free navigation.
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I completed the course in level designer Adam Crespi.The space is designed keeping in mind that the audience gets attention resources to explore around and there are elements in the space scattered for free navigation.
3d modelling
I was lucky to be able to book the VR room at the white city where I made the Panda named Poba in virtual reality, by using the app Gravity Sketch.
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I was lucky to be able to book the VR room at the white city where I made the Panda named Poba in virtual reality, by using the app Gravity Sketch.
Sound
The sound was recorded at home and edited on reaper. I have also used the special sound effect to enhance the perception of a 3 Dimensionality of the space through sound. In this particular story I have placed a doppler effect on the polar bear as its narration faints with distance.
User Experience
The testing phase was conducted on zoom and I shared the github link with several friends and collected their feedback on it. One major outcome of this process was the interactive guide button that can help anyone who is not able to navigate in the space.
The sound was recorded at home and edited on reaper. I have also used the special sound effect to enhance the perception of a 3 Dimensionality of the space through sound. In this particular story I have placed a doppler effect on the polar bear as its narration faints with distance.
User Experience
The testing phase was conducted on zoom and I shared the github link with several friends and collected their feedback on it. One major outcome of this process was the interactive guide button that can help anyone who is not able to navigate in the space.
