Conversations and Dialogue #105: Challenge | Recap
Challenge of the Week
This week your challenge is to show how dialogue can be shown in e-learning courses. You can focus on talking, tex...
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Hi, I don't have much time but I did like to share my ideas. So I made two examples in one demo for only showing the interactive ways displaying conversation without actual dialogue text.
Here's my entry: https://googledrive.com/host/0BzqOBbexfMo3eVNkemxxZlZWdFU/story.html
Here's my entry: https://googledrive.com/host/0BzqOBbexfMo3eVNkemxxZlZWdFU/story.html
Hi Joanna,
for some reason, the comment I wrote a couple of minutes ago was not posted (so perhaps it will show up twice later!).
Thank you for the nice example. I liked the idea of dragging the microphone and the use of states and especially the changing expression of the characters (much as Linda wrote before). I also liked the idea of the "orderly discussion" in the second example.
Two small recommendations:
1. In the "orderly" example, I was missing a visual cue on "who wanted to say something". I would occasionally drag the microphone to somebody, and it would snag right back because that person "had nothing to say right now". Alas, no feedback on who wanted to say something was given (or I did not notice it), and there was no explanation (e.g, a surprised character saying "I did not mean to say something...?").
2. In the same vein, I think it might be interesting to give each character a microphone and add a green/red "requests to speak" dot (much as this is often done in panels or parliamentary sessions). This way, the order would be clearly indicated and the "guessing" is reduced (unless this guessing is what you are after). Also, you might give the users some learning chances by letting them choose "who goes next" if there are two or more red lights lit at the same time (perhaps explaining aspects like "session chair can cut in" or something similar).
What do you think?
Keep up the good work, and keep posting it!
Guido
for some reason, the comment I wrote a couple of minutes ago was not posted (so perhaps it will show up twice later!).
Thank you for the nice example. I liked the idea of dragging the microphone and the use of states and especially the changing expression of the characters (much as Linda wrote before). I also liked the idea of the "orderly discussion" in the second example.
Two small recommendations:
1. In the "orderly" example, I was missing a visual cue on "who wanted to say something". I would occasionally drag the microphone to somebody, and it would snag right back because that person "had nothing to say right now". Alas, no feedback on who wanted to say something was given (or I did not notice it), and there was no explanation (e.g, a surprised character saying "I did not mean to say something...?").
2. In the same vein, I think it might be interesting to give each character a microphone and add a green/red "requests to speak" dot (much as this is often done in panels or parliamentary sessions). This way, the order would be clearly indicated and the "guessing" is reduced (unless this guessing is what you are after). Also, you might give the users some learning chances by letting them choose "who goes next" if there are two or more red lights lit at the same time (perhaps explaining aspects like "session chair can cut in" or something similar).
What do you think?
Keep up the good work, and keep posting it!
Guido
- Hi Guido, thanks for your opinion.
For your first point about the microphone occasionally snag right back, it happens because if the object doesn't drop on the hotspot area, it will auto return. Thanks for pointing that out. I adjusted the hotspot size so it will not snag back when user drag to a character now.
And for "no feedback on who wanted to say something was given", I am not sure what you mean, but if you mean there should be feedback to someone after saying something, I would say since the conversation display orderly. The feedback could actually display in the next dialogue. Or there could add in a chairman who has response to each character.
Giving each character a microphone, that a brilliant idea and could be used in a different approach. I would like to use the idea one day in my future project.
Thanks again for your feedback. I really enjoy the spark when discussing a demo/work.
Joanne