Week+6


 * Write four paragraphs defining the term 'bodystorming'. (4 paragraphs) **

Bodystorming is when you are put in to the shoes of an individual where you can experience the difficulties they experience on a daily basis by understanding and experience various prototyping methods. This allows the bodystorming party to experience the difficulties on a first hand basis where they can provide their input of what these individuals go through and create alternative method to help solve or improve the current models and situations of their environment and surroundings.

What the bodystorming does that brainstorming does not is that it allows the individual to physically experience what is happening and have instant thoughts and reactions as it occurs, where as brainstorming gives you only the opportunity to think about the facts and what the problem; how it can be solved with no prior experience or background information to what we are surrounded by which makes it difficult to process solutions opportunities.

Bodystorming gives the individual a more conceptual physical approach to the analytical system allowing the physical approach to be evaluated and experienced, rather than approaching it based on theories and concepts which are based on guessing and hypothesis. This entails the user generated experience to play a significant role in determining the problems which they are experiencing.

Bodystorming as an overall conceptual model is beneficial to the understanding, experience and prototyping design as it creates a foundation layer for the unbiased individuals approach on the system, promoting it based on user generated experiences. This embeds a more concrete solution towards the methods of concept and design.

 An issue which I would like to research using bodystorming using the Case Theatre Scenario would be a device which would be having variable tint setting which you can adjust on the windshield and the surround glasses around you. By doing so, this avoids the wearing of sunglasses allowing your face to feel less cluttered or in cases where you may have forgotten them.
 * Describe an issue that you would like to use bodystorming to research, analyze and investigate, and describe how you would develop a Case Theatre scenario to do so. (6 paragraphs) **

By creating the tinting model of the glass it allows you as the driver and the operator of the vehicle to control the levels of tint while still having a safe viewable experience when driving. By bodystorming this technique we can get a first hand user generated experience of what it is like, rather than how you think that it is going to be for the drivers in the driver seat.

When wearing glasses there might be certain times when the level of the sun ahead of you may be too strong for the glasses to protect your eyes, sometime not strong enough, you may or may not even have the sunglasses with you. Whatever the case may be, it is not consistent and by bodystorming we can experience the first hand experience with the different tinting and levelling zone without the worrying of sunglasses.

By bodystorming we are knowing that vehicles which are being produced have a built in safety system where we know that the levels of collision which are happening are going to be reduced as a safety measure has been taken to reduce the chance that the driver has of looking at the road ahead in the direct sunlight. This concept is similar to having the wipers which are in the utilized in the coition of the rain allowing the driver to see without obstacles.

By making these adjustments they can help improve our vehicles as well as make them safer for the general public, so that in case that we are blinded by sunlight in front of us, we are not directly involved in an accident.

After bodystorming with different individuals and getting perspectives on it, we should see if it would implement a positive feedback, and if so it should be designed into our vehicles as an essential safety measure such as the windshield wipers.