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BCM206 A3 individual report

Through this stage of project development and task progress, our project has also got a new breakthrough. In the last phase, we guided our physical technology and virtual technology through the introduction of preliminary information. In short, it is expected that uow University will set up a virtual AI character to help international students solve the problems of campus life when they first come to school and Australia. Our initial work is finished. A laser-cut business card with our club logo and a QR code printed on it. By scanning the QR code with your mobile phone, you will get a video explanation of the AI robot, which briefly introduces the culture and basic role of our club. This is the completion of our mission in the previous phase. In this stage of development, I believe that in order to promote and publicize this project, the character of AI as a virtual image should become tangible, so that everyone can deeply feel its existence and significance.

First of all, our audience is every student and teacher who chooses uow University in Australia, so this group should be the young group that occupies the main share. So choose something that appeals to this age group so that they will be interested and willing to learn more about our information culture. So how to use physical things to make virtual AI characters tangible and meet the appeal of modern young people for this thing is the biggest problem. In my opinion, the thing that can attract young people’s things is fashion culture, such as clothes, dolls, skateboards and so on. In recent years, a blind box toy called POP MART was born in the Chinese market, which is a trend cultural entertainment brand established in 2010. In the past ten years of development, POP MART has built a comprehensive operation platform covering the whole industry chain of fashion toys, focusing on five fields: global artist mining, IP incubation and operation, consumer reach, fashion play culture promotion, innovative business incubation and investment. Through the development of these years, it also has a great influence in Australia, in the downtown of Sydney also has three stores for sale, and is very popular with locals. And the way you buy it is very special. It’s called a blind box. Blind box refers to the toy box that consumers can not know the specific product style in advance, and has random properties. Born in Japan, this trend was originally called mini figures, but after becoming popular in Europe and the United States, it became known as blind box. As a trend toy, the blind box accurately cuts into the young consumer market, and many “blind box +” business models such as archaeological blind boxes, stationery blind boxes, beauty blind boxes, snack blind boxes, etc., are also rapidly emerging. Blind box culture originated in the United States and developed in Japan. The so-called blind box, as the name suggests, is that the box contains a variety of cute doll hands, but the box is not marked with the specific one, with its limited model of hunger marketing, greatly stimulating consumers’ desire to buy and re-buy. So turning our virtual tech AI personas into blind boxes to issue purchases is the next development goal.

As the project progressed, we quickly ran into problems. The choice of physical technology is difficult for us to make. Because our initial character model is built by AI, its character details and outline lines are extremely complex, so in 3D printing and 3D scanning we do not know how to make choices. The survey found that 3D scanning printing is done by using devices such as lasers or optical sensors to scan the actual object to obtain its geometry and structure information. The scanned point cloud data can be converted into a three-dimensional model, which can be manufactured into a solid entity through 3D printing technology. 3D printing is a manufacturing technology that converts digital three-dimensional models into solid objects by stacking materials layer by layer. According to the characteristics of the printing material, it can be divided into plastic printing, metal printing and other different types. It all seems to meet our requirements but cost control is really difficult to predict.For virtual technology, I think Online tribes should be chosen. Because for the development of the later project, we will customize or customize different AI character images according to the different personal needs of each student who enters the club, so different character entity models will be made for different character images. I hope to design a community group similar to the discussion group, where everyone can design and discuss with each other, and then send their satisfactory works to this discussion group, so that our designers can customize your private model according to your ideas. Meanwhile, after creating the model, we will put the vector diagram into the group to share the details of our model design with everyone. People can discuss and refine it into a complete work, then the project can be a real success.

The idea of the whole project is based on my admission letter from a Chinese university. After the completion of the task in the first stage, the teachers and students received a great response, which in my opinion is very successful. Therefore, for the task development and ideas of the second stage, I was also the leader. Through the last lecture, I carefully observed and listened to the project content of other study groups. I found that most of them were physical goods such as clothes or hand-made toys. This reminds me of POP MART blind box, a very popular toy in China in recent years. It will be co-branded with the most popular anime, fairy tales or even game characters to create different model tasks for sale. The price is much cheaper than that of regular model tasks. So I reintroduced this concept to create our physical merchandise, and the blind box AI character became the next part of our project development.

In summary, the UOW ISA Community Offer Letter Project is a pioneering effort that goes beyond the typical approach to induction and transforms the international student experience at the University of Wollongong. The program combines customized acceptance letters, carved business cards, and AI-powered virtual assistants to generate a sense of belonging, support, and community. These issues and concerns highlight the importance of strategic management, while the outlook points to possibilities for continuous progress and expansion. By addressing these issues, UOW not only ensures a seamless integration of foreign students, but also increases global discussion on new approaches to higher education. The initiative embodies UOW’s commitment to creating a transformational and inclusive learning environment for students from diverse backgrounds. In combination with the current most popular trend culture, the creation of trend products or even the emergence of joint physical products represents the trend that the uow University community in Australia is in line with The Times and willing to understand and contact the culture of young groups, and constantly update social real-time resources to make students from all over the world yearn for and choose Australian universities. I think the later development of this project needs more complete data and rigorous technology to ensure that the project can appear in the public eye as soon as possible!

Reference list

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BCM206 A2 Developing Digital Artefacts Individual

As time goes by, our project is also gradually advancing. Our initial idea was to design a corresponding admission letter for our university, which would distinguish it from other university notices. It would contain information about the university or its introduction, so that every student who has received a university admission opportunity can experience the culture and history of your university in advance and have a better understanding of the university they are admitted to. This plan was constructed by me, and my inspiration comes from the admission letter of a Chinese university. I am an international student from China and have experienced two different teaching modes. I have also studied at universities in China, so when I saw the admission letter from Tsinghua University, a world-renowned university, I had the idea of creating an admission letter from UOW University in Australia. Tsinghua University is a world-renowned university ranked 25th on the QS rankings, and also a university that every student in China hopes to be recognized. I have observed the design of the admission letter for Tsinghua University in 2023. It is printed in 3D on an envelope, with the gate of Tsinghua University printed on it. This is a landmark building of the university and also a landmark building of the Chinese capital Beijing. This represents the history and heritage spirit of Tsinghua University, and also provides every student who is about to enter the university with the opportunity to learn about their university.

For Ouw University in Australia, I searched for many descriptions from other countries, especially Asian countries, as I am an international student from China. The most important information obtained is that UOW University is a five-star university and an important member of the Asia Pacific University Alliance. Most importantly, it is the largest ICT research center in Australia and one of the largest information technology and telecommunications research institutions in the southern hemisphere. Based on this information, I constructed the first set of admission letter samples for UOW University.

The first challenge I encountered soon came. After releasing the first design layout, Tutor informed us that we cannot directly use the name UOW as the result of our project. Tutor’s suggestion to us is to establish a UOW club for international students through UOW University, so that you can design club specific admission letters or invitations through designs similar to UOW. This provides us with new ideas. As the name and logo of the university cannot be changed or used arbitrarily, we have changed the content of the project to create a club for international students belonging to UOW. We welcome students from various countries or people who want to know UOW University to join the club and learn about UOW University through the cultural and content exchange of the club.

So there was the design of the second layout.

The content of the design drawing is drawn with a blue and white gradient color, which will give people a sense of future technology. The overall content of the icon and the original image have also undergone many changes. Next to the icon, I added two kangaroos. The kangaroo represents Australia, indicating that it is a community from an Australian university. The center of the icon is the three letter ICT, which represents the research center. Combined with the original icon logo, a book represents a university. So combining all the elements means that this is a community within Australia’s largest research center university.

Next is the selection and application of physical technology and virtual technology. In physical technology, I choose laser cutting technology because in the actual processing and production process, we will find that the quality of laser cutting is very high, the entire cutting process is very fast, and the advantages of product processing and production are more obvious. It is not limited to cutting patterns, and automatic layout can be used to save materials. The entire cutting surface is very smooth and clean, and most importantly, the processing cost is very low. It has more accurate, flexible, and efficient characteristics compared to shear washing, and can effectively process various complex components. Compared to 3D printing, it requires only a piece of wood or steel instead of expensive resin, which greatly improves cost savings.

In virtual technology, the choice is Online trials. We hope to design a network community, and those who join our club will have an AI assistant. It will introduce you to the basic content of our club and provide you with a community to communicate with other members of the club. Each AI assistant will have its own unique image, and you can customize different AI assistants according to your needs, The example shows a first-generation design that briefly introduces the role of AI and our club culture to attract more members to join our club. At the same time, we have also designed a QR code next to it. You can use your phone to scan the QR code and receive videos produced by AI to explain the content of the club.

BCM206 A1 individual

Introduction:
the impact of future technology Ai on life, psychological crisis responses. Including the practical application of online trials and new releases in daily life, as well as the transformation and application of people’s ideas for future life and technology

Story: Selling Memory
With the development of technology, manual work is gradually being replaced, and more and more people are unable to find jobs, resulting in a huge wealth gap. Those wealthy businessmen who possess wealth use their money for technological development to increase their wealth, and those without money cannot even solve the problem of food and clothing. The protagonist Hugo is one of the members of this world. Due to the time constraints of government relief for people, he returned home and repeatedly used the high-tech electrical buttons at home, only to learn that this is a special machine that seeks work from home. His benefits are also about to expire in the next two weeks, even though he can continue to use this machine to make phone calls and seek work, the artificial intelligence at the end of the machine tells him that there is nothing he can do now. It is now 301302, and Hugo did not give up or become angry because of this. Instead, he searched for valuable items at home, hoping to sell the only remaining valuable thing in exchange for money to continue his life. After a series of ideological struggles, he also put the only valuable watch on his body into the buying and selling box. The development of the times cannot guarantee employment, and Hugo is just one of the survivors in this era. There are too many people like him. He brought these valuable items found from home to the antique shop, and the items in the buying and selling boxes were not much, but they were already precious enough for him. He hopes to sell for a good price, at least allowing him to continue living in that high-tech house provided by the government. But the shop owner only gave a price of 50 Australian dollars. The store owner explained that with the current economic downturn, for everyone, coming to this store is a person who lacks money. Even if you don’t sell it to other places here, you won’t get a higher price than me. Hugo also reluctantly sold these things. The store owner continues to ask, Hugo, do you have any other items for sale? Hugo said nonchalantly, “I only have a heart full of pain left. Do you want it?” Unexpectedly, the shop owner said with great interest that I can indeed purchase some special things here. Then he took Hugo to a small room. There is an extraction device in the room, he introduced, which is used to extract people’s memories and store them in a chip. Then you can rent other people’s memories in exchange for compensation. It is very popular among the wealthy, and the extraction process is very simple. Simply scan with an instrument and transfer it to a computer and then import it into a chip to complete memory extraction. For example, during a skydiving experience conducted by an extreme skydiver, memories of the excitement and sense of achievement are extracted, and the buyer can bring this memory into their own memory to obtain pleasure. This is the entire process. If you need it, you can come to me for memory retrieval and I will give you the corresponding compensation. But I want to remind you that memory retrieval is not perfect. If used multiple times, your memory will be erased from your mind, making it impossible for you to remember the memory you sold, which means that this matter will be completely erased from your memory. Please think carefully.Because of this, this experience is very painful and contrary to the law, but for the wealthy, they are very fond of it. So they often pay high salaries in exchange for memory. Hugo hesitated but was also very curious about how much compensation he could receive. The store manager told him that this needed to be based on the needs of the wealthy, and for them, what they needed was worth it. Hugo decided to go home and consider it before giving a response in the future. The store manager reminds him to think carefully about what precious memories he has, so that he can receive high value returns. In this way, Hugo returned home. As soon as he arrived at his doorstep, he heard an AI prompt stating that your home still needs to be reclaimed in three days. We hope you can give the rent to the government as soon as possible so that you can continue to enjoy this benefit. After hearing all this, Hugo returned home feeling very depressed. He took out the remaining oatmeal and made a simple bowl of oatmeal to eat, but was unexpectedly disrupted by flying flies. This was also the only hope that success had crushed Hugo’s heart. In the blink of an eye, Hugo arrived at the antique shop. After seeing him, the store manager showed a strange smile and told him that someone is now offering high prices to buy people’s memories of high school graduation. At this point, Hugo had already sat on the instrument, recalling the scene of his high school graduation in his mind. The principal was holding his graduation certificate on the podium and watching the students coming and going. Hugo smiled and took a photo with the principal holding his graduation certificate. Immediately after the memory retrieval was completed, a brand new chip popped out of the computer, and Hugo also received satisfactory compensation. Just like this, it’s uncontrollable. After Hugo returned home and paid the rent, he found that he only had a little money left, which was not enough for him to ensure a basic living. He returned to the antique shop again, and this time, the owner told Hugo that there were pictures of wealthy people paying high prices to buy people’s happiness when they got married, and Hugo once again entered the process of memory retrieval using the instrument. After completing two memory retrieval sessions, Hugo returned home and flipped through fragments of his past memories. He took out wedding videos and high school graduation albums, feeling very unfamiliar and physically exhausted. He really can’t remember these things. But he woke up again and went to the antique shop, this time the owner needed a birthday. After entering the instrument, he recalled in his mind the moments of each birthday, celebrated by his parents and friends, and given him a carefully prepared birthday gift by his mother. It was such a beautiful memory, but it was completely forgotten after memory retrieval. In this way, the lost Hugo returned home and received an email stating that it was an opportunity to interview for a job. The other party hopes to have a video conference and interview with him, and the interview questions are also very simple. Hugo was very happy because he no longer had to trade his memory for money. Then he opened a meeting to communicate with the interviewer, but surprisingly, they asked about his education, birthday, and work experience. This makes Hugo unable to answer, as his memories have all been sold to the wealthy.At this moment, Hugo arrived at the antique shop without stopping, only to find that the place was already empty and the store manager didn’t know where he had gone, leaving him with only a scrapped machine and scattered memory chips. He picked up those chips and hoped to input his memory back into his own mind, only then did he realize that it was already too late and his memory could never be returned.

Proposed project pitch overview:
In future life, technology is full of the times, and how we use technology to participate in our daily lives is a very meaningful thing. It is thought-provoking whether we are using the power brought by technology to facilitate our lives or whether we are being replaced by technology and become obsolete products of the times. So how to use the power of technology correctly to improve people’s understanding and usage of technology, whether it violates moral ethics or even the law, is our focus. How to better utilize technology is something we need to understand.