An initial design session/thought shower enabled us to try out a number of designs and follow up various ideas/conceptions.
We decided upon using an existing university symbol: the 'i' and creating a character based on the i symbol that can be customized by the individual users. The character can then be stored on their profiles so that every time they utilize the system their own character will appear. The default figure is an androgenous figure who expresses emotions through his eye brows. This also plays on the agents name, i.e. it is an 'i' and his purpose is to 'browse' the university intranet and internet. 'agent-i' is the default setting, which can be used by anybody. Students of the university however can change the profiles held on their student cards to personalize the agent character.In the prototype stage agent-i was sculpted into the space to give us some idea of how users would utilize the agent and what his role was within the space.
Within the final computer prototype agent-i went digital and fully interactive. Here he can be seen assisting a student named Will to find the location of his interaction design lecture.
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