Augmented reality software, in this case Adobe Aero, is something I had never experimented with nor had I ever thought to. To be completely transparent it was the area that intimidated me the most and that I actually struggled with the most within this module. We were tasked with using the skills we learnt in the AR workshop to create a site specific AR project that interacts with or comments on the environment in the city. I wanted to link this back to the previous neurodiversity task from week one as I believed this could be the perfect potential way to present the visuals demonstrating the outcome I had expected from my campaign, if it was to be active around the city. The plan was to have a sequence of miscellaneous letters and numbers creating an illegible and unorganised path. The path would eventually lead to the final destination in the middle of Leeds city centre where the poster comparison idea from week 1 would be showcased front and centre. The letter sequence would assist in highlighting the message of this poster. The message being, dyslexic people do not lack intelligence they simply have a much longer list of things to compete against than the regular person.
However after facing many challenges when I was trying to use and figure out software I was unable to bring the plan to life through augmented reality. Despite this I didn't want to give up and produce nothing so after rewatching the workshop tutorials I reduced my plan right back to basics attempting to make the outcome achievable for my level of understanding within Adobe Aero. By doing this I at least got some practice with the software and I would like to eventually progress enough to one day be able to create the outcome I had in mind.
For my final result I used the 'surface anchor' format as for me personally it made the process a lot easier to make sense of as it wasn't and overwhelming environment to work in and the focus was entirely on the elements I was inputting without the noisiness of a background just yet. It allowed me to focus on experimenting with the variety of different possible actions. I stuck to the original idea of the sequence of letters and numbers but instead of them leading a path throughout Leeds, they led a path directly to the work 'easy?' This question is intended to get the audience thinking about how if they had to compete with even half the struggles of a dyslexic person then maybe they wouldn't find it so easy to read and process information either. I used my experiments with the placement and actions of the letters to highlight these struggles; backwards letters and numbers, jumping and moving letters and overlapping.
