rational myself cannot control my abreaction of emotional

It is suprise to me , I can finish so many things in such a week.
the happiest is I can use my ability sovle the trouble for my friends.
maybe I loss something , get a worse result for myself.
but I can feel here is my happy, I got the feeling of a family.
I gain more trust and honest.  I need that , I need close friend turst each other.

in fact, I many years ago, I can donot use mother tongue to express my emotion 
but this time is real memorable.
How long time the friends can be togother, when I can meet you again in future.
when DMW can grow up, when I can continue my Irish dream.
any way I have my own family, I love it , I love my dannia so much, 
they love me very much too.
the friends can make me more valueable and more meaningful,

I open the gate of my emotional part.
only keyboard instument can help me express my feeling.
express such a great happy.
I can't record it again now, but that emotion can be remain inside.
I can't repeat the same action and melody in every time.
it is like "once meeting, once special " emotion changed ,
but I can get different gain and brilliant feeling

I am persuade my real want, but don't know what is that.
I am expecting I should not expect. but it is not right or wrong, 
only  the feeling is true. I will try my best to protect the people who I love. 
make them happy. it is my dream , my expectation.
mybe it is too hurry, may be I can't handle it . I want to catch the oppotunity,
I don't know wether I can lucky again.

I love you, I am lucky, I am satisfy, I am expecting the brilliant.

Zheng Dai
User Study Designer/Interactive Designer/Industrial Designer
Address: Skovvej 20, 1,118, DK-6400, Sønderborg, Denmark
Cell: +4525953381   Home: +4574134058   Email: guandai@hotmail.com 

OBJECTIVE
To obtain a User Centered Design (Usability Design) or Interaction Design position in product/software/service development, utilizing my UCD knowledge and industrial design skills. 

SUMMARY

My background is industrial design and multimedia design with working experience, including product design, website design, flash design, environment design, and animation design. At present, I am studying User Centered Design (Usability Design or User Experience Design) and Interaction Design for product/software/service and innovation.

I’M GOOD AT:

·         Based on field research, generate concept and provide solution

·         Drawing diagram and sketching to communicate with teammates, and clients.

·         A positive team player with other designers and engineers

·         Practical knowledge of design methods and procedures

·         Fast learner on design software and proficient in many industrial standard design software

·         More than 3 years experience on visual design (website design, graphic design)

COMPUTER SKILLS

·         3D Design:  Alias (Studio tools), Solid Works, Maya, AutoCAD, 3DMAX, Rhino

·         2D Design:  Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Painter, CorelDraw

·         Web design: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, GoLive

·         Multimedia:  Audition (Cool Edit), Premiere, After Effect, Cakewalk, Cubase

·         Office:  MS Office (Word, PPT, Excel, Visio), Acrobat Professional

·         Programming: ActionScript, Flex/MXML, VB, C++, HTML/CSS, ASP

EDUCATION

·         MS (Degree expected: June, 2009) in IT Product Design at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.  
This program focuses on User Center/Experience Design and Interaction Design for product research, development, and innovation.

Projects including:

·         The Spintop Microware – Action Technology
Designed a microwave controlled by using tilting, rocking, swaying, shaking, and spinning, which the shape likes a spinning top, instead of cold button and box.  

·         Wireless Heating Flowmeter Networks – User Center Design
Based on field research of user experience, we optimized the flowmeter system by a wireless networks and provided a movable center controller for user.  

·         Taarborg: becoming history – Experience Design
For tourists and visitors communicating historical heritage, we set some adjustment in the building. We provided a richer atmosphere that enhanced people experience. 

·         Emation Skull – Interactive lamp
Designed a lamp which can change the color by covering different parts in hand. Made a representable mock-up with microcontroller, including soldering, programming, and connection

BS (2006) in Industrial Design, at Beijing University of Technology, China.
This education focuses on design method and procedure. It trained me well on idea generating, art appreciation, and problem solving about a design object’s function and form.

·         Projects including:

·         Electroencephalography (EEG) Systems development project    
Worked as an industrial designer and developed an EEG system with electronic and software engineers. Designed the workflow for doctor and designed the physical interface for patient.

·         Three-wheel motorcycle and Passenger car design for 2008 Olympic Games

I designed a 3-wheel motorcycle for the handicapped and a passenger car for 2008 Olympic Games with engineer in a development team. Both of these projects utilize multi-energy system.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

·         Young & Rubicam advertisement (full time)        Apr.2007 - May. 2007, Beijing, China
Position: Graphic Designer, Flash Designer
Task included: Design advertisements “Uniquely Singapore” for Singapore Tourism Board, AD and package for Bimbo baking company in china, and “2G hotmail mailbox” flash bar for Microsoft Hotmail.

·         Crossbow Technology Inc Beijing Representative Office (part time) JUL 2005 - OCT 2006, Beijing, China
Position: Product Designer and Interface Designer, working in an R&D team with structural engineers, Hardware engineers, programmers, and marketing specialists.
Tasks included:

·       ”Open Design Project” for market development and product development.

·       Design a new wireless sensor networks for easier and more appropriate to use

·       Design a web version interface for MoteView (software application for product)

·       Make a flash interface for customer get the information of MNAV
      www.xbow.com/Images/flash/uNAV_flash.swf

·       Design Icons, Pack Box, Flyers for Crossbow products 

·         BAS Enterprise Ltd. (part time)        JUN.2005 - Feb. 2006, Beijing, China
Position: Visual Designer and Training Specialist
Task included:

·       Design advertisement flyers for Synopsis and DynaSight (both are database software)

·       Make a Tutor Video for MicroScribe 3D Digitizing

·       Give a demonstration to clients, as part of the product service at Shanghai. 

AWARDS

·         Published a paper at SIDeR2008 conference (Student Interaction Design Research Conference). “The potential of artificial intelligence toys - a technology-based design approach” (2008, Sønderborg Denmark, Sponsor:  IT vest, Mads Clausen Institute)

·         Published a car design, “Dolphin”, on “Car styling (Volume 181, November, 2007)”. “Dolphin” is a bionic style design for single driving car.  (2007, Japan, Car Styling Magazine, Kaneko Enterprises,Inc.)

·         Honored special award for my design: “Three” at “07 International Invitation Competition for Concept Design of Metropolitan Vehicle”. “Three” is a compacted car designed with 3 seats in one row and an alterable trunk lid at rear. (2007, Beijing, China, Sponsor: Beijing University of Technology)

·         Honored winning award for my design: “Zone” at “Unicom new force national university student car design competition”. “Zone” is a single car, working in a sharing traffic system. Users rent and drive the car between stations. (2006, Changsha, China, Sponsor: China Association of automobile manufacturers)

·         Honored 1st award for my design: “Test Tea” at “Dialogue with Tradition National Invitatory Exhibit”. “Test Tea” is a sculpture design to express the feeling of rich and honor. (2006, Beijing, China,
Sponsor: Chinese Folk Literature and Art Society)

 REFERENCE:

·         Jacob Buur, Professor, Mads Clausen Institute , University of Southern Denmark, buur@mci.sdu.dk

·         Wendy Gunn, Associate Professor, Mads Clausen Institute, SDU, gunn@mci.sdu.dk

·         Qu Yanrui, Professor, Depart. of Industrial Design, Beijing University of Technology qyr@vip.sina.com

·         My blog link: http://guandai.spaces.live.com/

Taarnborg: Becoming History

A Question: what is this project about?

Aim of this project was to design in order to communicate historical heritage, to visitors of a private museum, attending to cultural events.

Our scenery is Taarnborg: a house from the Renaissance, famous because Hans Adolph Brorson lived there. He was hymn writer and bishop of Ribe from 1741 to 1764, date of his death. Nowadays Taarnborg is a private home and meeting place for lectures, musical evenings and historical dinners.

Checking on the past feedback: we found out that visitors at Taarnborg are usually groups of 30 up to 40 people. Age is from 50 to over 60 years old.

Some of them are members of religious groups based on the local area, they share an interest in local history, religion and philosophy. They attend meetings in Taarnborg to know more about these subjects and to sing together Brorson's hymns.

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B Research issues:

1 to materialize the time-line of Taarnborg in the place, into a tangible form that could be experienced by the visitors.

2 experiment techniques learned in school about user-centered design

3 to work on boundary with: interior design (arrange a setting suitable for users and activities), art (to stir up an emotional response on people with an installation) and museology (make people aware of historical heritage connected to that particular place through our setting).

4 Relate to our feelings and respect the balance between: place, functions and people involved (guests and inhabitants), so to make the experience of the visitors richer, avoiding to spoil it.

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C We had to deal with many practical constraints:

1 predefined environment and functions: we had to adapt to expectations of people with a different set of values

2 financial: we payed ourselves but all the expenses will be covered by Taarnborg.

3 Transportation: we had to test our ideas in Taarnborg, so that we had to use part of our time traveling,

4 time constraints, we started field studies Tuesday 8^th of January, but we had to make a demonstration already Sunday 13^th in order to get an initial feedback, the museum is now closed until April.

5 feedback: because of tight schedule we could not get proper feedback, we had to rely on mails which is the usual way the owners of Taarnborg get their feedback. One problem is that we are getting very positive comments, probably only happy visitors wanted to write to us. Then we presented in Danish, this also could contribute to drive people to be more positive, they appreciated our effort and they showed it clearly after our presentation.

We had to combine different sources:

1 Brorson's hymns and life

2 History of the place, that has always been connected to local power

3 Our knowledge about design, use what we can do and know.

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D Strategies

Given all the constraints and the initial sterile atmosphere of the rooms, we decided to explore the senses to deeply involve the guests and make them feel part of the historical process.

We coordinated our team-work in relation with distance and travels, we worked also at home exchanging files on internet, but more important we found inspiration on each other ideas to enrich the setting with meaning. 

To optimize our time, we adapted already made things that could fit the place and our concepts too

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E Conclusions 

We had to deal with many constraints and combine different sources, but we succeeded in creating a richer atmosphere that enhanced people experience. We had a contact with some of them: Bente would like to work more with us to develop further our concepts, then the leader of the visiting group wants to recreate our setting in a room from the 1200, they use for praying.

In this way we became part of Taarnborg's history together with the people who saw our work Sunday. 

Still more work is needed: 

We should explore and develop further our concepts

-introduce interaction: book lamp that plays Brorson's music when someone approaches, and a lamp for the basement that becomes brighter when people sing all together

-audio: on the first floor with noises of horses like there was someone passing by on the street, and in the tower wind blowing and some whispers

-experiment with lights and shadows: reflections of shadows and lights in the tower, silhouettes on the windows of the first floor, projection of lights in the basement to reproduce pre-existing windows that are not there anymore

-collage: about the time-line of Taarnborg, mentioning also our work

-more direct feedback: guest books and interviews, to get more precise feedback

理性的我终于控制不住感性的发泄
我自己也会觉得很惊人 自己会在一星期完成这么多的事情

我完成了4 个考试2 个阅读分析

最高兴的是能靠自己的能力 解决朋友的问题 把他留在学校 留在这些同学身边

虽然 我的考试成绩比他低 虽然我的报告比他交的晚

不过我感到 能获得一些家的感觉 能获得一些信赖 和坦诚

其实很久一起就不用母语来表达感情了   现在却又觉得这是很难忘的经历

朋友会在一起多久 未来还能在哪里见面 DMW 又能何时长大 爱尔兰的畅想又能何时实现

不论怎样 我有自己的家， 我爱我的家，他们也爱我。 我爱小乖乖 他也爱我。

朋友的感情使我的生活更丰富和更有意义。我突然又一次打开了自己感性的门， 只有键盘能抒发我的心情

能让我发泄这样的快乐。 键盘虽不能继续记录了， 但是情感记录在我的内心， 我不能重复手指的流动

但是有一些像 一期一会， 每次的感情不一样 但每次都有独到的收获 和精彩

在追逐自己想要的 但又不知道那是什么 ， 我在期盼永远期盼不到的东西， 无法说这是对或是错， 但这样的感受是真实的

尽自己的所能保护我所爱的人 让爱我的人幸福 我的梦。。。 我的期盼。。。

或许是太着急 或许是没把握 在眼前的机会不知如何把握 自己的未来是否会再次幸运

我爱你 我幸运 我满足 我期待精彩

l Introduction

Through designing a game, we get to know the basic process and principle of design beyond user study, and experience the practice of design activity. We concentrate on the dilemma of user, and try to solve or improve the problem by a game. It makes the user to discover and study something after playing the game. What they find from the game can lead them feel better or solve problem better when they meet the dilemma again.

We design the game in a group, and our team has three teammates. My teammates are come from different backgrounds and countries. Mikko is a Finnish boy and studied television and film design in Britain before. He gets idea in a special way and always tries to find different settlement from others. Franzi comes from Germany and believes in “just do it”, her background is language and culture and she studied it in Southern Denmark University. I studied and worked on industrial design in china for 5 years. I like rational thinking and am good at computer aid design a little.

l The problem

During the project I met many challenges and the one that most impressed me is making a decision or finding the direction of the project. I found that the principle of making decision changed continually during the project. We got many ideas and concepts, every concept came from a basic principle. Different concepts lead to different directions. We picked up back many concepts which we gave up before. As the project going, we defined the dilemma first. And our dilemma was communication problem between teacher and students.

l The situations

I would like to introduce two situations of our teamwork that demonstrate the dilemma in our process. At the beginning of the project; our 3 teammates sit down around a table and design the basic models of our game. In fact, it is a brainstorming time.

1^st situation:

Mikko said: “we need simulate the situation like the real.” and then he drew a model. “There are 3 players in the game. They simulate different people in the real world – teacher, student, and worker - who work with student“, he said. At the same time, he connected players with arrows and made comments. He continued speaking: “In this model there are 2 games - main game and sub game”. He drew 2 circles and a timeline beside the circle. “Firstly, Student plays with worker in the sub game. And then, teacher gets the information about the game from student, and after that teacher inflects and changes the rule of game.” This whole process of design went well, but after that problem appeared. It looked like that Mikko do not satisfy his first model and he said: “I think this model have action of communication, but it cannot solve our dilemma. It concentrates on the sub game but it is not important. ” Then I said “We need more communication between student and teacher. And make the game more interesting and more like a game. ”

2^nd situation:

After that another idea came out from Franzi and she said: “I have got an idea, it is a word puzzle game.” then she figured out the game on paper with drawing 2 players and some cards. “Player gets a word card by random. Student sees the word and figure out it to teacher. Of course, student cannot speak the word directly.” She said. I thought a moment, and I figure out the word puzzle game made is good for easier, but the communication blocks between student and teacher is not necessary. “I think this concept is easier than previous one. And we need direct communication between the two players. The most important is making players try more different ways to figure out a situation or event to their advisors or others”. Mikko continue:”Yes, we don’t need set obstruction for communication, and just simulate the real world communication.”

The result

At last, after many other ideas and changes like these situations, we got a right way like the first idea, improved it and made it more interesting. Also we made the game easier by combining main game and sub game to a new one. The game had 3 players still and the basic structure was kept. That means we were back to the start. The first idea was the nearest to the right one.

l Conclusion

At the beginning Mikko did a concept by the initial thinking, maybe at that time he didn’t know what exactly the game was, during the drawing and design, but he found a way to continue the design and complete it. This concept was not ripe, but it had some value to use and go on. Mikko enjoyed his process of design and it was really going very well. The concept which he drew was very clear and had enough comments. In my opinion, just because it went well, we could find more useful things from this idea. There were 3 players and 2 rounds in this first idea and these concepts were kept at last. After that, Franzi gave another suggestion. The process and result was similar with the previous one very much, the same description way, the same response. And it also had the useful part to the final design, it was the easier direction. After the 2 situations, following the same way and method, our work progressed and met many situations like these.

Of course, as any idea appearing, people need find the advantage and disadvantage. Because the start time is for brainstorming, we need more ideas and collect some material first; any suggestion or comment is welcome. However, in these situations, all of our teammates paid more attention on the problem and the lack point of the idea. But after that we didn’t try to review what we have got, just went through follow a direct way. The result is that we just tried to find a new way in a hard work, when a new problem appeared, but forgot some useful ideas which we have got before.

Of course, when a new idea appeared, it always has good value, but sometimes it means a new start and a new perspective to the project. It was not a bad way to approach a better result, but the process needed progress which based on the former work. According to the condition of the project, designers choose the method and procedure. I think the procedure of design need to plan and it cannot go at will or by random, especially if the time is very tense. Brainstorming is very useful, but designer need back to an efficient work finally.

the most useful skill to me is english.  I need take more time and energy focus on it,

whatever papers, presentations or group work. all of them need good communication skill.

I should use more valid sentences and words. need more check and feedback.

1/8 time has been passed, the time really go fast. To summary what I have got, it is really have many things to talk.

next step is more communicates and e-mails...