Research Prototyping
Prototype:
We decided to focus on the bacteriaprocess which lead me to the idea of making a prototype. As the bacterias are going to be shown on the arm, the first thing I had in mind was making an arm-prototype. I used an ironfence to create the shape and secondly I covered it with newspaper and plastic foil to make it more compact. The last layer was made of cotton. On the inside of the arm a calligraphic message was written with fingerpaint which we decided to use. We bought different kinds of colors. As this calligraphic text is suppose to show up as a personal message a removal bit of cotton was used to make the message appear.
Writing with spices:
We also tried another way for creating a message which was the act of writing with spices. I tought that it visiually refers to bacteria and its spreading on the arm. It wasn't that good though because it was difficult to write with it and nobody could see the message so we skipt it.
In trying to make a person feel the experience of getting a message we did a user-experience test wrapping the plastic foil around my arm and writing a message on it with the fingerpaint. I choose a person for receiving it. Then we took off the plastic foil and run of to wrapp it on the receivers arm who read the message. It worked!
Picture of the arm-prototype
