Product Info : San Francisco | Type : Team Work | Role : UX/UI (Product Designer)
Goal: To build a voice-controlled multimodal interactive system.
The project will emphasize on designing the interaction system, with particular focus on natural language, dialog, handling contextual information, and interplay among the different modalities, such as touch, vision, and graphical output.
Research :
We as a team discussed to come up with a game for a specified user group with certain expectations to build in the exercise of designing a voice interactive game. After brainstorming various ideas we came up with a game play for our voice interactive game.
Game Rules :
A game controlled by voice commands or inputs.
The game will consist of one character that interacts with the user.
The user will give certain commands (e.g. “inflate”) and the character will react/respond to it.
We could instead control the character using voice rhythms/ tones (e.g. “TA TA TA”) instead of specific words.
User Group : 12 to 20 years
Character Persona :
Childlike creature
Designed to look cute and playful
Lives in Space/Forest/any open space
Acts human like but does not look human like
Character controlled by voice (Range of volume)
The characters you see above fit into our character persona. But they are currently exist in a 3D surrounding. So we were thinking and discussing what is viable to build in a give period of time, either in a 2D OR 3D environment. We also had to pick and decide on the technology or platform we are looking to create this game as minimal viable product before the given deadline.
User Interactions /Voice Commands :
Move up, down, roll, jump
Inflate, deflate, Jiggle etc
We would like to execute 3 or 4 commands at the max to keep the game simple and interactive.
Jiggle
Inflate
Jump
Game Play :
The game will consist of one mode single player. Our character floats in space, once the user speaks into a microphone, according to the volume of their voice, the character will move in the space and expand in size. The goal of this game is to keep the user engaged with the game by constantly talking and interacting with it, as the game reacts to a different way of being controlled, by voice rather than controls.
Higher Execution Rules of the game :
The whole project can be divided into three parts: the voice receiving and recognizing part, the game execution part and video/Audio output part.
We are using the computer microphone for voice input.
Inputs such as based on the tone modulation from the user can control the character in the screen.
When the input commands are recognized, the output would be the character in the game will start to respond. For example, the character will move in space or in the designed environment and will change its physical features based on the increase and decrease of the tone.
