Meeting with the Lecturers
Myself, Sarah and Natalie met with our lecturers to discuss what point we are at with our project and if we are ready for the Interim Presentation the following week. We discussed that our hopes is to create a visual aid that a teacher may see the app as not part of the school curriculum, but may be a fun and interesting way to introduce kids to ASL and see if it encourages kids to socialize with the hard of hearing. Especially since kids at a young age going into education may only start realising then that they are deaf and could have a hard time starting their education. If kids with a hearing disability have a bad experience at the start of their education, due to teachers or other kids being uneducated on the topic, it could put them off their interest in education.
We had also discussed our methodology for information gathering. We would conduct surveys, tests and questions towards teachers and parents. We had decided the there would be no need to interview kids as the target age we are looking at would be to young to give any detailed information that we’d be looking for and it would also save us from all the legal forms we’d have to fill out and organise for interviewing kids.
The downside to the team is that none of us excel as a developer, so we were trying to avoid making an app. But after discussing it with the lecturers, we decided that we still could create an app and put our strengths in film, animation and design up front to make it look noticeably different from other sign language apps on the market.
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