Title: Rate Me! :):(
Module: IS52020B/S Perception and Multimedia Computing (2018-2019)
About.
In creating this small user interaction application, I was inspired by the rating buttons system in airports, where customers review whether they were satisfied by their travelling experience or not. Therefore, this application is trying to simulate a similar scenario.
In order to make it function with a disregard to colour blinded people I coloured the buttons in shades of red’s and green’s, two colours which are often undistinguishable to colour blinded people suffering from deuteranopia. I also colour coded the button in order of good to bad, assigning shades of green with a good rating and shades of red with a bad rating.
In order to make the application work for colour blind people I would most probably either change the colours of the buttons so that they work regardless of colour-blindness or rather implement a numerical system to provide the user with context to the choice being made.
Although my user interaction application presents the user with a response after the choice has been made, the rating systems which I myself in my personal travels have come across do not offer this type of response so it is up to the user to assimilate green with a positive response and red with a negative response.
Since someone who has deuteranopia colour blindness would not be able to distinguish the different shades of red and green, a situation like this where the rating is based on shades of red and green accompanied with a lack of context would result in the user being confused with what choice they should make, or they would simply refrain from participation.
This project was part of a coursework submission for the Perception and Multimedia Computing Module in year II of my BSc. (Hons) Digital Arts Computing Degree. All source code for this project can be found at my Git Lab account by following the link below.
https://gitlab.doc.gold.ac.uk/mtabo002/coursework-one/tree/master/LAB2/PAM2B
