education portal for the city of Augsburg
A new portal has been launched for the city of Augsburg. It is meant to be a central platform about all kind of information and events concerning education in and around Augsburg (Germany). Different layouts have been created in the course of a seminar, the one to be realized, has been chosen by a person in charge of the municipality. Two students of the “winning” team and myself, we formed a team, got a work contract by the municipality and implemented the website on the basis of the Typo3 CMS within one year, besides our studies.
Aquaris — three teams, two payers each, custom-built game controller
Aquaris is a game dedicated to teach and inform about renewable energy technologies and energy-saving measures to children of the fourth grade. Aquaris was intended to be set up in a small museum,owned by an electricity producing company. Private guided tours about the topic mentioned before where offered for whole fourth grade classes at once.
For those reasons, three requirements were defined:
facts
- easy to learn game flow, due to minimal complexity of gameplay
- easy to use, custom made controller
- a whole class of up to 30 children can play within one hour
- children learn in a playful way as knowledge pays off in our game
- to cope with minor reading problems, mostly audio is used instead of text
advantages of the controller built at a glance
click to see a 3D animation about placement and function of the controllers
- form follows function: the cursor on the screen follows one to one the controller handle
- no button functions need to be learned, all interactions necessary to play the game can be performed moving the handle
- each controller device is placed accordingly to its cursor on the screen
- very precise
- only needs to be calibrated once at setup time
- no influences of environment
Or click here to see a low quality (1mb) 3D animation version.