19/10/09

Tuesday 13th:

Recieved PPP assignment brief. Agreed to decide on a question we were confident enough in to put forward by Wednesday.

Wednesday 14th:

Met up, and discussed choice of research question. Concluded that we would be best off researching if colour cues could be used to guide players, and if so, how effective they were. With this in mind, we started plotting out the structure for our literature review and pitch. Ended with a plan for the writeup, and agreed to meet again prior to lecture on Friday.

Friday 16th:

Met early, and started to write up our LRPP. Made a fairly decent start on the first section, but hit a slight snag when we found that it was difficult to tie some of our research together – our main focus was on the use of colour for guidance, and we had some articles to that effect which provided useful sources, but we’d failed to realise how much of our research dwelt exclusively on the emotional impact of colour. Agreed to conduct independant research into the use of colour within society as a guidance framework, then discuss again at next meeting.

10-10-09

Monday:

Discussed planned areas of research: I would look at Navigation, both within games and in general. Richard said he wanted to research the impact of emotions on decision making (more fool him). Nick chose to look into the psychological influence of lighting, and how it influenced people’s actions. Lee wanted to follow up on Phil’s advice and research how colour was used in movies, and Tom eventually settled on examining how colour influenced people’s performance in sports and games.

Wednesday:

We met and grouped our research; we’d all found at least a couple of things that were relevant, and none of us had ended up with duplicate sources. General consensus was that it was promising, but that we couldn’t easily create a good research question yet. We agreed to think on it some more and discuss it with Brian and Phil on Friday.

Friday:

Our meeting with Brian and Phil was… inconclusive, really. Despite their feedback, we still couldn’t hash out a research question that seemed satisfying. That said; we were told not to worry overmuch – that it would “click” after we’d done some more reasearch, and we’d easily settle on a good idea. They also requested that we bring in copies of some of the papers we’ve found; I think I’ll try and arrange this next Wednesday…