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Personal Knowledge Management

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2006 KM World & Intranets presentation

Final Prototype

Final Prototype:
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/INDEX-Changeable-3.swf
Other fla:
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/INDEX-Changeable-3.fla
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/default-3.fla
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/Gallery-3.fla
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/OtherInf-3.fla
Other swf:
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/defaultmovie.swf
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/Gizaslides.swf

A Brief Description on How Representation Works

The purpose of designing this representation

Firstly, I have discussed with one of my classmate to brainstorm the ideas of our assignment, however I completed the job individually after my partner had dropped out. The topics of “representing of mood” and “Egypt’s Tour” that we raised, and I choose the latter one as my representation. Browsing over the websites available, I found that there was full of information available for someone to search, but it was not easily to be differentiated and graphics should be selected precisely. For the convenience of both the friends and viewers who might came across with a glance or impression with limited time, it is essential to have a simple and vivid website in a visual and interactive format to introduce the sightseeing spots in Egypt. As my traveling experience 2 years before, photos and information might be used to construct our representation for the attraction to viewers, I regarded that a simple and colorful designed visual interactive representation could help to attain the objective. I decided to make the image as a type of planner book that could introduce basic attractions within several pages. Undoubtedly, there were many conditions to handle the software of flash in more assessable way. The last prototype was the challenge for me to handle well in operation of flash but it helped me to know how to make the product to be vivid and interactive with viewers.

The Use of the representation

This interactive visual representation was mainly designed for communication of information. Target users are able to get impression and basic information they need from this representation. The design of planner was made with more user-friendly process. Viewers just did a few clicks to get information needed and graphics were the main information. .This representation could also be used as a reference material for teaching and learning. For instance, when students were asked to write an impression and basic information for an essay or do a project to introduce tourist attractions in Egypt or to plan a trip in Egypt, they might collect useful information from this representation and it might help in learning purpose in a certain extent.

The functionality of the representation

Through these interactive visual representation tourists, someone could get preliminary information about the areas in Egypt. They would find the photos that attracted them to seek further information by clicking the pictures. Then the picture could be chosen to have a glance. At the same time, a page of hyperlinks appear to refer information if the viewer hoped to get something browsing for. The page of route and map presented my trace, photos and information. Someone could put the mouse on the interaction buttons to get information vividly. Then certain relevant information of books, CD would pop up as someone who clicked the links. The design was simple enough for all kinds of viewers who wanted to know more about tourist attractions in Egypt.

Reflection

As I have mentioned above, this representation is for the intention of sharing basic information and data for those who want to get initial glance on Egypt. With the technical limitation of IT skills and the time constraint, it is certainly necessary to improve in some areas. For example, the size of interactive stage and fonts should be bigger to attract others and presented clearly. More tourist attractions and information icons could be included in the representation. I have experienced a series of tasks that could make me insights on how to improve the interactive presentation and make a good representation.

Latest Version on the final prototype

Here comes my latest version on the final prototype that is the representation of the stuffs concerning Egypt. I hope that it may not be complicated to present the information upon our assignment. Several technical problems that I face against are the attachment between two objects of .swf. Anyway, I have finished my great part of pages and now I present here as the below link.

http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/wctang/INDEX-Changeable-3.swf

The above flash that I hope to insert into my page of Diary will be finished later.

Approaching to my final product - Part 3

(Click the photo above and try the hyperlinks that you want to browse)

The page of other information was attached with photos of websites, frontcover of books, CD and etc. I was the first time to copy the action scripts from other .fla that I could operate the pages for disaplay vividly. You could see that I inserted buttons to link with the pages that could be opened and moved into centre of window. The particular motion was controlled by the action scripts by copying from other, I had not any ideas why it could be done actually. This lesson urged me to learn that the action scipts could be borrowed into personal creation, and it saved time to dig into the profound syntax technically. All photos could be clicked by mouse and it would bring you into the webpages that you wanted.

Approaching to my final product - Part 2

(Click the above photo and see the effect)

By the comments from classmates, as the topic said, I decided to make the route for demonstartion of my trace in travelling Egypt. I used the gif. of shoes inserted along a moving line and then displayed my photos whle the shoes were passing by. The objective for this page that I regarded was accompanished with interactive button below. Someone could click on it and start off my journey along the spots in Egypt. Hoping that someone would give me comments on the effect of route, and other presentable ways to meet the task on this page.

Approaching to my final product - Part 1

(Please wait for a while and you can see all photos downloaded into page)

(you may click and open the above 2 files and see the photos displayed interactively)

I have finished my page of Gallery that comprised of several photos divided into two groups: People and Sceneries. The page that I felt much satisfactory carried out those of the effects with message graphically. I fully combined with the two pages as left and right, firstly it was convenient for user to click on the group on the left hand side and then the relevant photos could be seen on the right. Despite of the limited presentaiton for the photos pre-occupied in page, I made the photos presented user-friendly and impression with graphic orientation would be done. Lastly, I always met with the difficulity in handling the click that would link with other swf successfully in my directory of computer, however while I uploaded to server, it could not happen again, eventually I found that it should take time to load the photos that occupied memories in connection between pages.

Story Board for my final assignment - Part 7

It spent so much time to accompanish the tasks, especially in the linkages between .swfs, fused with more than 2 elements. The plan that I made the tasks into 5 pages had beated me down, since I was unfamilar to operate the commands of flash. I have decided few pages constucted with photos, however I could not combine them into a smooth file with one swf. I spent many hours to do it, and attempted many times by trial and error. Eventually, maybe I buy some books to follow the instruction. Here, I posted the background of my travelling experience, and it shoud be inserted into my main swf, probably I would try again later to make my task completed.