Proposal 3 [Selected]

RESEARCH TOPIC

Infection of Smile

BACKGROUND

"Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu. When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too." by Karen McLendon-Laumann

Smiling is indeed important in our everyday life, both in our personal lives as well as within the workplace. There is the saying "Smile and the whole world smiles with you." Well, sayings like this are actually grounded in fact. When you smile, it does tend to trigger off smiles in others around you. Even in extremely stressful situations, a smile can easily brighten up everybody's mood.

The value of a smile is priceless. It can't be bought, begged or borrowed.

It costs nothing to give, but is the most sincere gift that one might be able to give to another. A smile brings rest to the weary, and is the best antidote for discouragement. It brings sunshine to the sad and hope to the hopeless.

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

Nowadays people are facing a lots of stress and unhappy things in life and most of them can't be avoid. Everyday I see my facebook full of complaint from everyone, complaint about their friends, complaint about their life etc. But what if there are full of happy things, everyone is sharing their happy experience instead of complaining, I think in that way will make everyone more happy. So I think we might need a media/platform/places for us to share our happiness only, such as our smile photos, our happy story etc.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES

- to let the world full of happiness.

MOTIVATION

Those complaint at facebook always make me think of what happened in this world, is the world really so unhappy? So I am thinking to share happiness to others and gain happiness from others also.

IDEATION AND CONCEPT

The basic idea is to create an online application and platform that let people share their happiness and infect to others. Through the application, people can take pictures of they smiling and it will saved in database and other users can browse through gallery of smile and gain some happiness from there. Besides that, users can write down their happy experience or any joke in there to spread the happiness.


REVIEW, ANALYSIS AND PRECEDENCE STUDIES 

A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes (See 'Duchenne smile' below). Among humans, it is customarily an expression denoting pleasure, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. But there are large difference between different cultures. A smile can be spontaneous or artificial (when people feel obliged to smile). Happiness is most often the motivating cause of a smile. Among animals, the exposure of teeth, which may bear a resemblance to a smile, is often used as a threat or warning display—known as a snarl—or a sign of submission. In chimpanzees, it can also be a sign of fear. The study of smiles is a part of gelotology, psychology, and linguistics, comprising various theories of affect, humor, and laughter.


DESIGN APPROACH

A online application with happy feeling layout, webcam take pictures function, sharing story function.

Proposal 2

RESEARCH TOPIC

Tiger Slaughtering

BACKGROUND

Tiger, the arrogant and proud king of the jungle, whose realm was unchallenged even by the likes of Alexander, Changez Khan and Tamur Lane, fell prey, first to the greed of hunters in quest of ‘trophies’, then to the mercenary poachers – who traded every organ of the tiger for money, and most recently to ‘planned development’ encroaching on tiger territory.

A hundred years ago there were over 100,000 tigers – today there are perhaps fewer than 5,000 – 95% have been wiped out. Of these 5,000 about 3500 are hiding in India – in scattered pockets called Reserves - and the remaining in Bangladesh.

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

More and more animals facing become extinct problem now. Tiger is one of the top ten animals that facing this problem. But still many people didn't realize about this problem or they just don't even care about this. Tiger Slaughtering happened because the needs of the market, the skin, the organ that treated as a herb, etc. If this needs continue, tiger slaughtering problem can't be stop. So people need to realize about this issues and stop producing the needs.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES

- to alert people about tiger slaughtering issues.
- to provided more information about tiger slaughtering to people.

MOTIVATION

I always feel that human had go too far at treating animals. So I want to show people the life of animals also as precious as human life. Hope that people can start thinking about this issues and stop the needs.

IDEATION AND CONCEPT

The basic idea is to create a games alike installation, included a projected screen simulated tiger living on wild and a gun infront of it. The gun can only use to shoot the tiger but once the user shoot it, some message will appear to show that this action is incorrect, how many tiger left today in the whole world, and maybe users can browse through more details information after that. What I want to show to the users is, they suppose can do nothing to the tiger and watching it live happily but they choose to do the wrong things because of "desire". In here it's the desire of playing maybe, but in real life that is desire of the tiger products, desire of money making. Hope that shooting the tiger in a virtual scene and being told that it was wrong will make the users feel guilty in their heart and stop buying any tiger products to stop the needs of market.


REVIEW, ANALYSIS AND PRECEDENCE STUDIES 

Since 1900, the endangered tiger's habitat and numbers have been reduced by up to 95 per cent. Poachers continue to poison waterholes or set steel wire snares to kill tigers and tiger prey, selling their skins and body parts for use in traditional Chinese medicine.

Despite 20 years of international conservation efforts, we are losing ground to save the tiger as, on the endangered species list, all sub-species of tigers are considered critically endangered species. 

Of the eight original subspecies of tigers, three have become extinct in the last 60 years, an average of one every 20 years.The Bali tiger became extinct in the 1930's. The Caspian tiger was forced into extinction in the 1970's. And the Javan tiger followed in the 1980's. 

The number of tigers in the 1900's --over 100,000 -- dropped to 4,000 in the 1970's. Today, they are a critically endangered species with the total of all the wild populations of the five remaining subspecies (Bengal tigers, IndoChinese tigers, Siberian tigers, South China tigers, and Sumatran tigers) is an estimated 4,600 and 7,700 tigers.  It is known that all remaining tigers live in small, isolated populations in widely scattered reserves.


DESIGN APPROACH

A games alike installation with a projector screen and a gun which can interact with the screen.

Proposal 1

RESEARCH TOPIC

Illegal Rubbish Dumping

BACKGROUND

Illegal rubbish dumping, including roadside dumping and illegal land filling, degrades the local environment and generates significant community concern.

It is illegal to dump, or permit to be dumped, any waste, rubbish or soil products on private or public land, unless it is a licensed landfill site. If rubbish or soil is dumped on private land, with or without the owner's consent, it is the responsibility of the owner to arrange appropriate disposal of the waste, unless the person who dumped the waste can be identified.

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

Illegal rubbish dumping issues is getting worse specially in Malaysia. I found an interesting theory which called "broken window theory"

a house if the windows broke, no one patch, separated soon, other windows will be broken somehow; a wall, if the graffiti is not some washed, and soon, the wall covered with a mess on, unsightly thing; a very clean place People taking out the trash sorry, but once litter on the ground appears, people will not hesitate to throw, did not feel ashamed.

From this theory, if bad things happened and we didn't fix it in time, the problem will only get worse and worse. Same things applied to illegal rubbish dumping, most people dumping rubbish in illegal way is because they feel that everyone else is doing the same things.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES

- to alert people about illegal rubbish dumping issues.
- to experimental with broken window theory and let people realize that they themself are the key to solve this problem.

MOTIVATION

Living in Malaysia I am sure you will see a lots of rubbish beside the road, in a park or anywhere. So I want to tell people about this issues, try to change their lifestyle by removing this bad habit and keep the environment clean.

IDEATION AND CONCEPT

The basic idea is to create a scene of "besides a road" or "in a park" which is a normal scene to us. People(NPC) passing by and nothing happen until a person throw a rubbish at the ground, then slowly other people start throwing rubbish around also and the rubbish is getting more and more. This is to show to the audience the broken window theory which make this happened. The audience can start to do the right things by pick up the rubbish and throw it into dustbin, this action will lead other people to start pick up rubbish or stop throwing rubbish around. This is to show that we should start to do the right things ourself but not doing bad things just because everyone else is doing it.


REVIEW, ANALYSIS AND PRECEDENCE STUDIES 

The environmental impacts of illegal dumping are significant. Dumped rubbish can leach contaminates into our bushland, harming our plants and animals and blighting our landscape.

When it rains, illegally dumped rubbish can impact proper drainage
of run-off, making areas more susceptible to flooding when wastes block ravines, creeks, culverts and
drainage basins. If run-off passes through illegally dumped rubbish, the health and ecology of our waterways may also be affected by contaminants.

Illegal dumping can pose serious health risks. Areas used for illegal dumping may be accessible to people, especially children, who are vulnerable to the physical and chemical hazards posed by waste.Rodents, insects and other vermin attracted to illegal dump sites may also pose health risks. Illegal dump sites with scrap tyres provide an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes which can carry diseases such as encephalitis.


DESIGN APPROACH

A simple street scene simulated the real scene projected on wall which have interactive function.

About

Hi, my name is Tan Jaw Yuh,student ID 1071112702, major in Digital Media in MMU.

This blog is about the final year project of my major.

Every progress of the fyp will be posted here as a journal, please feel free to comment on it so that I can make it better :)