2011/05/09

1. Brainstorming

For the fist step of creating a website for the reconstruction of earthquake, we discussed what we could have for the main contents of this website.

・How can we make people to participate?

・How to attract many people as possible?

・How can we make people to stay and visit for several times?

・How can we gather other people’ s ideas and comments?

Based on these points, thirteen students divided into three groups and brainstormed ideas.

–group1

・Suggest people to realize again the sense of crisis, since the anxiety of earthquake is starting to disappear from people's mind.

・Contact with people of the devastated area, and introduce story from their real experiences.

・ Broadcast conversation through the phone between our class and the local people. Later on, we could actually visit the devastated area and meet them in person. This could tuned into a drama or documentary video.

・We trigger a event at local area by planning a project online. (ex. Best helmet dresser contest)

・Make a friendly website, so that people who does not any interest on the earthquake, could come to the website for fun. Yet, the information on the website is going to be serious, so that they could feel the gab.

–group2

・ Make people to visit the website constantly and stay long to find out the information.

・ People could become a user and make them feel like their part of our project.

・Concept is to make a user to be a member of this class. Create user's individual page where they could scrap their favorite information.

・ Design the main page of website as a typical school classroom.

・ Relay of ideas. If one person leaves his or her idea, another person could add on to it to make it better.

–group3

・ "Lupin Steal Japan Project" Lupin is one the famous japanese animation character, where he steals the blogs on the internet. Apply this mechanism to bring people to the entrance of our website.

・Make people to participate easily, such as by one clicking.

・Make a useful website for students to use it for their school homework.

・Have different links to jump to other websites that introduce other articles.

・Have a feedback function, if anyone leaves a comment.

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Based on the idea of having "iine" button at twitter approval voice, anyone who entered the website could click this button to give points for their favorite ideas. As this "iine" points increase, the graphic of destroyed city would recover.

2. Discussion

Based on the ideas from brainstorming and discussion, we came up with rough contents for this website.

・Main Contents： Movie…digest video（five minutes）（digest ver. Of contents video）

　　　　　　　　　　　 … contents video

　　　　　　　　 Pictures and Comics

・Idea page：Contribution page

・User page：My page

・Case study：Introduce the design ideas, interviews and ect.

・Profile：Introduction of class members homeworks

3. Homeworks

・Come up with the name of the website

・Each group would come up with their contents

・Divide the class member into four groups and do research and come up with idea by the next class to discuss.

・Video team：amount of time for video、development of video ideas to attract people

・Idea team：way to make people participate、display layout, categories

・User registration team：how to gain more user、merit of user

・Direction team：supervision、principle of website、top page