Monday, November 5, 2012

Edheads-Engineering-Design a Cell Phone - Interactive


http://www.edheads.org/activities/eng_cell/index.shtml

11 comments:

Grace C. said...

I do not understand the point, because whatever phone that you designed, it never gave you better/worse results. I find it kind of stupid that if you ever went back to a certain step, it would replay the intro, and plus it was weird that if you pressed the buttons on the phone, it wouldn't do anything. If I were you Ms. Ghazarian, I would probably not put Edheads Interactive stuff on the blog anymore because the last one was lame and this one was even more lame. I like the Who Am I game much better because you can do things. Plus, they have already invented phones with bigger buttons so that senior citizens can use them. It is just really stupid that they would put the guy on lifts too, that is just really sad for all of the short people out there. Elena has a boring voice (the game one not the school one) and she doesn't seem to say anything interesting. I find this game a total wast of my time.

Ethan said...

I liked the game but when you were getting your comments from the people thye always gave you the same comments. I didnʻt really understand it.

Weston said...

This was so fun! I am in love with phones, so this was the perfect game for me. I have literally spent at least 15 hours studying phones for fun. This was a game that was fun to play, and a bit easy, considering I have grandparents that are exactly that way. One of my grandmas refuses to get a new one because she just loves her old Nokia, and my other one has a smartphone, but I always have to help her with doing things on it. This was a great game, and I'm going to go play it again.

Faith said...

I loved this game! I think it's a great way to learn about engineering. I think this is very realistic in the case of people's opinions and real life senerio. I know that it would be harder to design phones in real life, but this was a nice crash course in engineering. It is really cool how you suit them to different needs because of their personalities. Although I wish there more options to customize your phone, I love how you can see the weight and how much it costs. I think the customers were all the same, but most elders agree on these types of things. I really enjoyed this game overall!!!!!!

Izzy said...

I thought that this game was pretty good. It was interesting to find out about the needs of senior citizens when it comes to mobile phones because it seems as if everybody under 60 wants to keep up with the iPhone fad. But I have to admit, one of those people is definitely me. Since senior citizens aren't going to be texting LOL, OMG, and ROTFL to each other, they don't to have keyboard on their phone like a Blackberry. They also don't like buttons on the phone that are too small, and when the screen is to dim, they don't like that either. But they really don't like when there are functions on the phone that aren't necessary to people or that they don't understand. That's why high school students want and iPhone, because they appreciate all of the random apps that you can buy through the phone, but old people find those things unnecessary. On my first try, most of the people testing my phone liked it, except for the fashion woman, who thought the phone needed to be more "sexy." to disagree with Gracie, you do get different results when you make a bad design. I tried to make a purposefully bad design to test this out, and every hated the phone except for, ironically, the fashion lady. Overall, I think that this game was pretty cool.

Bryan said...

Really good! So much better than the other when you had to make elements and make a medicine. This game is much more simpler and it doesn't take so much thinking that you blow your self out. It is also much more simpler that the other game. The other was so complicated and took a lot of time to do. This game is also much more interactive than the last. Personally for me, I like a visual and also some are activity tied into academics. This game gave me exactly that. Although this game was very amusing to me, there are some down thing to it. Like, when you get the results of the phone, it's always bad sales results. You never get the maximum sales of the phone. I also wasn't very happy about that you had limited choices about the design of the phone. The sizes that I wanted were in between the actual sizes that you were given. Overall, this was a really fun and amusing game to play!

Anonymous said...

Sophia said,

I think that this is cool, but there is no point. I like that fact that you can help with the world problems. I wish that it was more science related though.

Emilynne said...

This game was okay. It was SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE!!! Even so, there was nothing scientific to it whatsoever, and I didn't learn anything. Grace, actually the comments do change. I had this. I takes a really long time to hit on just the right combination so that the senior citizens will like. That was annoying. Also, I'm just nitpicking here, but lifts? Really?
This game was better, but not good enough.

Kallie said...

I thought this game was somewhere in the middle of other people's comments. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't absolutely amazing. I liked that you had less choices about the phone, but I though that it was a bit easy, because all the customers needed was bigger, simpler, and brighter, which was pretty easy to do.

Ian said...

This is stupid! I designed the same phone twice, and once I failed, and once I succeeded! This game just picks random things and has nothing to do with science!

Elena said...

This was interesting, but I agree with Ethan. I designed three or two different phones, and twice I got the same comments from all the senior citizens. I think that this was also a fun game because it let kids think about ways to improve phones for everyone, not just teenagers and kids, who spend a lot of time on their phones. Since there are iPhones and they are so successful and useful, I think that this really made me think about ways to improve phones. I tried to increase the button size, but some people wanted the phone to be smaller, and the button size bigger, which I couldn't do. But overall this was a really fun game!