Questionnaire Research

What are questionnaires used for?

Questionnaires are a great method to analyze the opinions, expectations, general knowledge and much more of people within a certain category. They help gather data about a certain number of people and that will help us understand and assume the aim of the questionnaire for people all over the world. In addition to that, questionnaires are a flexible concept, which means they can be used in many different contexts. For example, they can be used to find out a percentage of people under 20 years old who own a mobile phone in Dubai. If the questionnaire is carried out in the way of a survey and 500 people who are under 20 years old complete it, we can generally assume approximately how many people under 20 years old own a phone in Dubai. This means that if we can get a certain number of people to answer the same question or set of questions, we can make a judgement of what most people think or do without asking every single one of then. This is the reason why questionnaires and surveys play a very important role in research about the general public population. It helps us understand what most people think or do, depending on the questions. Also, questionnaires can be used for testing people's knowledge about a certain topic. As an example, if we ask 1000 people from all over the world to identify what a strawberries are, we can find out people's knowledge about fruits. Another way a questionnaire is used is to analyze people's opinions and make a decision based on the majority of the result. For example, a restaurant could have the idea of changing a certain appetizer, if they ask people which idea they prefer, they can form a decision of whether to change the appetizer on not depending on what the majority of the people prefer. Also, another example is to analyze the behavior of a certain age group and compare it to another based on a set of questions that show ones behavior and actions. Basically, to sum up, questionnaires and surveys can be used for a variety of purposes, including collecting data, patterns and research about opinions, expectations, knowledge, preferences, behavior etc. 

Web 2.0 Research Reflection

After researching about Web 2.0, I feel like I have a detailed knowledge about what it is and how its used. It was an interesting task and I loved working on it, the best part was gaining more information about how the web was developed and that is why I really enjoyed this topic. To go a little further, I researched about Web 3.0 so I could get a better understanding of the development and differences. There wasn't any struggle along the way, however some questions were about something that I couldn't really research, so I had to think about my own experience and use my previous knowledge to answer them. Overall, it was great and I hope to use this information in other tasks including our topics about questionnaires.

WEB 2.O RESEARCH

               

Tech Fair Evaluation

The tech fair was a great success and I enjoyed the experience very much. I think we did well and everything was amazing, many people visited us to play our game and it seemed like most of the judges liked our ideas and I am confident that we did the best we could. The only thing that I found challenging was that we never prepared how we were going to explain our powerpoint while the people were playing the game, so it was a bit tricky but after a couple of people, we understood what we had to do and we presented everything easily. Looking around in the tech fair, I saw many groups with fantastic ideas and I enjoyed going around and seeing what they had to demonstrate as they were very original and creative. Overall, I feel like we did really well, the best we could and we got great feedback from the judges and students.

Our Tech Fair Powerpoint

Design & Plan

Planning

We decided on gathering different tile sets to put the layout of the game together. Here are most of the main tile sets we used for the classrooms, halls, field, spinneys area etc.

To put the tilesets together, we used the sidebar of RPG maker vx, so it is really simple, all you have to do it select the tile you'd like to use and create a layout out of that. Here is a picture of the sidebar with a tileset shown:

Creating characters are very easy. On the software, RPG Game maker vx, you can change the preset character to your preference. You can select different features and colors of clothing and here is a picture of how to create characters:

The two main things that we needed were characters and tilesets, so to put it all together, you can create a layout out of the tilesets and then choose how you want to add in the characters. The last part that we needed to do was to add in text, as in the speech that the characters say when you go to talk to them, here is a picture of how to add in dialogue:

The last thing we needed to make the game have an aim was to put in the quests.

Some Screenshots of what we have created

Tech Fair Choice - AOI Relevance

As explained in the previous post, I have came up with 3 ideas that I can use in the tech fair, an RPG game, a lyric music video and a helicopter camera. From these ideas, I have decided to make an RPG game about a quest in school. The reason that I have chosen to make this game is because I will learn more about technology in this project than the other two. Here, I will learn simple coding and how to use textiles, but I already know exactly how to complete the other two so I won't be learning anything new. Also, I wanted to challenge myself and take a risk so I chose this, it also fits under two area of interactions; Human Ingenuity and Community and Service. It relates to Human Ingenuity because it is all about creating developing and changing and thinking in a creative and unique way. This game will need us to develop and change all the characters and textiles and we are creating the game by putting it all together. The game will relate to community and service as the game is educational and will help young students in the community with their knowledge. Im going to make it with Eman, Aline and Seema. We need 4 people in this game because we need one person to create all the characters, one person to collect the right textiles, one person to put it together, and the last person to code the quests and all of us will be making a powerpoint and poster to go with it as well.