Week 1 Thesis Proposal
Week 2 Sketch & Prototyping
Week 3 Play with TouchDesigner
Week 4 Send + Receive Data
Week 5 Production Process
Week 6 Demo Day
Week 7 Midterm Feedback
Week 8 Reflection for the Demo Day
Week 9 Documentation
Week 10 Production Plan
Week 11 Production Progress
Week 12 Thesis Archive & Progress

Production Progress

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Update: ✅ Text size updated by the number of repetitive input
My progress for the production this week is mainly the text-based visualization. As I decided to move back to text cloud/text bubble, I experimented with Geo Text COMP in TouchDesigner and finally made the text size update work!

Next: 📌 Text bubble
I believe good data visualizations should bring together these following characteristics: useful, clear, and engaging. As the text-based visualization already shows useful data about AI imaginaries, my next step is to make it more clear and engagingf by experimenting with the variations of text size and visuals such as text bubble.

Documentation:

This week, I mostly finished my first draft of thesis documentation, including main parts like Literature Review, Research, Form and Context, Ideation; and the parts that are still ongoing like Prototyping, Evaluation, and Conclusion.

Challenge: 💥 Keep track with the timeline
I found that focusing on both the writing and the production at the same time was really difficult, and I couldn’t finish the text-based visualization by this week. At this point, I have been iterating a lot of my original idea based on feedback and new explorations, and that requires more learning hours for TouchDesiger features. Therefore, my  progress with TouchDesigner was a little bit slower than I thought. (But that’s why I have buffer time for it!) However, I think my progress for the documentation is on track. I will be writing the Introduction and the Reflection parts after my production process is complete, and then review the documentation again before next week.