Because of the small amount of time we had to build the prototype, we only could test with iPhone users that had iOS 7 installed, and ideally one of the iPhone 5 models because we didn't have time to optimize for all screen sizes.
For us, we received great advice to ship a few units at lower development cost, and we resorted to using Arduinos and Nintendo Wii remotes and RC airplane batteries to build prototypes that we could sell.
How do we simplify this down into a prototype system that we could build to try to show the power of some of these simple interactions?" ‑‑ saying hi, what happens when you leave, what happens when you get startled, if there's animatronics around you, how do I feel about my friends?
The prototype we hung out with last summer could communicate, but was limited in its functionality to just dancing.
According to lead designer Chris Tilston, "It was basically prototyping, finding out where we could go and how we could get there".
If we could utilize that information for design, e.g., for automatically checking specifications or prototypes, interactive-system development could be improved significantly.
In 2007, we wanted to redesign and evaluate a bespoke comfortable prototype that could provide an accurate tool for improving forniceal sac documentation in the outpatient clinic setting, with potential for wider-scale commercial manufacture.
The success of Snapchat suggests the new prototype could be the opposite: We stay wherever we know the content will vanish.
Following our interim analysis, we elected to suspend further recruitment as further use of our prototype simulator could have resulted in negative learning which could have negatively impacted on the care of real patients.
We confirmed that the prototype could bend in all other directions.
