Independent Project - Alden Chia Hong Teng

Week 2 - Refining and Collecting The second week was effectively a data collecting week, with interviews, planning, and refinement of Week 1's work.  Data Collection/Compilation Interview I decided to start off Week 2 with proper primary research for my demographics, which are people from the age of 18 - 30. I've also removed the research regarding mental health and changed it to positivity so that it will be easier in the long run for me to stay focused on one topic instead of a large scale topic like mental health. I crafted questions regarding how positivity relates to interviewee's and how interviewee's feel about spreading positivity, before moving on to how technology and robots could be a means to helping them. I managed to interview a total of 5 individuals by this week and plan to interview more. For now I have managed to compile some data from the interviewee's. Questions for interview :  https://forms.gle/cDZjjStzjxiiNGKf6 One hiccup for this data collect...

Week 1 - Briefing and Research  The first week of the subject was spent being briefed about where/how to begin the project. We are briefed to create a Gantt Chart, A Learning Plan, a Do Good Proposal, along with a Blog to easily document my progress.  Learning Plan I started off with the Learning Plan, its for me to be able to gauge my skills, personality, and how I plan to proceed throughout the entire project. Gantt Chart The Gantt Chart in particular was one of trickiest parts of the project to do, due to the scale of the project I needed to do more research regarding the selected topic before I could move on further with the Gantt Chart. Do Good Proposal The idea for the start of the project is to create a cute robot that would help spread positivity. I started out with Secondary Research since it was the easiest task to accomplish, looking up websites, articles, and research about what mental health statistics and what it meant to the people of Malaysia. There was effort ...