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User Testing

Physical Prototypes

Prototypes: Visual form (3D print) & Interactive (Arduino)

Digital Prototypes

System tray menu

This menu shows how the Tate would live on your desktop. It contains links to your own online profile and also displays several statistics. Once you would connect your Tate to your computer this menu would pop open with your Tate in it.

Technologies: Flash & Html

Want to test it for yourself?

1. Download TateMenu.app (OS X 10.5 only).
2. Open the application
3. Go to the menu “Tatemenu”
4. Select “Convert to MenuExtra SSB”
5. Press “OK”
6. There it is! In your system tray. (probably you just need to resize it)

(Thanks Fluid.app)

Website prototype

Online the mutation history of the Tate and those of its mutation partners can be checked. Credits can be exchanged to lock body parts for a period of time, to buy parts from the database, to design a new part (Fig. 16) and implement it on his Tate and/or share it by uploading it in the database. The worldwide spread of these designs can be tracked.

In the database, all currently available body parts are shown. This database can be extended by the Tate company by adding and retracting parts. The best Tates can be rated for the Top 5. In the web shop, several commercial products can be ordered with someone’s Tate printed on it. If a Tater is so fond of the current looks of its Tate, the Tate can be kept and stored on the computer.

Technologies: Flash, Html & Javascript

Want to test it for yourself?

Visit the prototype site (only works in Safari and best-looking on a larger screen, >15″ ).