Edutainment

COLORIZE
CMU, ETC, Semester Project
Pittsburgh PA, 2022

Genre: Edutainment
Platform: Mixed platforms including Arduino, pc, whiteboard, etc
Client: Center for Arts and Education at West Liberty University
My role: Producer, artist, researcher
Tools I used: Agile, Trello, Premiere, Wordpress,
Team members: Caitlyn Lenhoff, Ebrahim Karam, Max Cameron, Qin Zhang, Wizard Hsu, Xiao Han

Description: Colorize is a project at CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center with a goal to create hardware prototypes and documentation for activities that will introduce elementary school students in K- 2nd grade to the colors of the light spectrum and light color mixing. The Colorize contains 4 hardware prototypes made with different technologies. The project is built for West Liberty University’s Center for Arts and Education.

Challenges:

Designing for a specific demographic (K-2 kids) with the goal of engaging kids to learn
Rapid hardware prototyping
Designing documentations that allow our client to re-create the prototypes that we delivered

As a producer, I was in charge of running the daily stand-ups and tracking the progress of the team. I also set up playtests and collected feedback from our playtesters. Often, I would have one-on-ones with the team members to check in on how they felt about the project and themselves. Besides, I made and maintained the website for the project while the project was going on. I wrote and updated our development blogs every week which you can see on our website.
As an artist, I handcrafted some shadow puppets that were used in the shadow puppet activity. I also edited our promo video for the project.
As a game designer, I contributed to the brainstorming, the tweaking and the documentation of the prototypes. I made a short and clear tutorial video for each prototype for our users.