Fantasy City

YEAR

2022 Spring

TEAMMATES

Yihan Yang | Ziyan Zhou

MY ROLE

Research | Website Design | 3D Modeling | Video Editing

TOOLS

Photoshop | AfterEffects | Rhino | Blender | ArcGIS

LINKS

Website

PROBLEM STATEMENT

How can augmented reality enhance people's experience of exploring a city?

DESIGN OVERVIEW

Fantasy City studies immersive experiences in theme parks and speculates how the techniques of evoking these sensations could be applied in the city's everyday spaces. The project utilizes theme parks' immersive experience techniques to transform downtown Syracuse into an imaginary land with cultural and historical clues. By dividing Connective Corridor of Syracuse into several themed districts with landmarks as the theme initiators, Fantasy City builds a new digital layer of information on the Connective Corridor to enhance the themes. In augmented reality (AR), the project will be accessible for people with phones to explore the city's streetscape and landmarks vividly.

RESEARCH + FINDINGS

The reasearch consists of two parts: Desk Research and Mapping. Using New York City as an example, we studied the difficulties that street vendors are facing, the process of becoming a street vendor, and the relationship between street vendors and different organizations.

We conducted six interviews with potential users, three are caregivers of patients with chronic diseases, and the other three are patients who need to take the medication themselves. Each interview lasted around 30 mins, and we asked the participants about their experiences and challenges of taking medicine. Based on our user interviews, we classified users' problems into four aspects:

Unclear information about the medicine and side effects
Miscommunication between caregivers regarding the patient's condition
Forgetting/missing the time to take medicine
Taking the wrong medicine

We concludes the reasearch findings into User Personas and Storyboards that imagine the using scenerios of the product.

Primary Persona: Sarah Panya [Caregiver]

Secondary Persona: Adam Lopez [Patient]

Storyboard [Caregiver]

Storyboard [Patient]

USER FLOW

We approached the design by thinking about the user flow. We mapped out the basic user flow of Log-in, Add New Medicine, Set Reminders, Document Symptoms, Search Articles, and Account Set-up. For the final design, we only developed the main user flow of Add New Medication, Set Reminders, and Document Symptoms.