The Global Studio 2009-2010 Reflections - James Ravenhall

The Global Studio projects:
2009 On the Move 2
2010 Entertainment on the Go

James Ravenhall, Design for Industry student, reflects on two of the Global Studio's projects: 'On the Move 2: Computing Now' a collaborative project supported by Intel and 'Entertainment on the Move' a project undertaken in collaboration with Motorola, Hong-ik, Northumbria and Ohio State Universities.

...'the aim was to enable the students to collaborate effectively with people, both outside the discipline and across vast distances...
Well with the Intel project we started off using teleconferencing, which was great; however, when you're trying to receive feedback, you know, if I'm sitting opposite you and we're talking and I can read your body language or whatever it is and can get a much rounded impression of what you think, and we felt that with teleconferencing, because you couldn't see that other person, you know, there's also things like, you know, you don't know when to talk and you end up talking over each other and there's a delay etc. And so I think it was midway through the project that we negotiated to bring Skype into that. We had the teleconferencing still there because it was about the sound quality but we also had the video as well, which helped a lot. And it was fantastic for getting really detailed feedback, and feedback from the guys, the senior designers at Intel, it's really valuable to a student project.'


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