SearchBox Proposal

What is SearchBox?

SearchBox is a interactive Rubik's cube. SearchBox allows users to interact with it through the form of touch and gestures.

When a user uses SearchBox, they touch the search bar and use the interactive on screen keyboard and touch what the keyboard to input what they would like to search for. Once they have hit enter, SearchBox will get to work and return the results of the search.

The user will then be able to use hand gestures to filter through the results. Once they have found a article that they want to look at, they select it by touching the screen, the cube itself will then maximise onto the screen. When the cube has been maximised the user can then use hand gestures to rotate the cube and view the results on the cube, once decided they can select the side of the cube they would like to view. When the user has finished viewing that side of the cube they can then use another hand gesture to rotate to the next page. To close to the article and return the cube the user can slowly close there hands together.

How do I intend to do this?

Due to the timescale given being relatively short, I won't be able to finish the project, however I do plan to continue this and eventually build this. However for now I will create mock ups of the idea, an advert for it using After Effects, still images using Photoshop and actual drawings. After I've done this I will create one side of the cube, and attempt to get the search engine working. I will try and get the touch screen to also work.

A Gantt Chart will be provided with a logical timescale taking into consideration all of my other modules that I am studying.

What am I going to research?

Okay so I haven't really got enough knowledge to do this, so I obviously need to research some things. I need to research gesture interaction, as well as touch interaction, not so much what they are because I am aware of what they are, but more of how to create objects using this technology. Creating a search engine is a pretty big project with in itself, I need to look at how to create one so they people can use it as easy as they use Google. I've attempted to look at Rubik's Cube After Effects temples and there isn't a lot out there, however I have spoken to my lecturer and I need to research in AE Scripts, there are templates out there however people want you to pay for them.

Research will be included into the Gantt Chart, allowing me to see where I need to be. Along with this I need to set myself weekly targets because of the way I am, if I just do pure research for however long I will lose interest and begin to get frustrated.

Recognising my target audience if fairly important as well, overall I would like everyone to be able to use SearchBox, just as everyone uses Google, therefore my target audience would be everyone. However I am unable to please everybody.