mandala

APP SUMMARY

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Through our application ‘mandala’, the world will be changed:

All children express their state of mind free and fluently andAll parents understand their sons/daughters’ state of mind correctly.In that world, children can interact with their parents well, and parents

can understand and interact with their children.

‘mandala’ means ‘circle’ or ‘center’ in a Sanskrit word. For a long time, ‘mandala’ is “Getting center and essence”, “Preparing true in one’s own

mind”.

Our metro style application called ‘mandala’, has a canvas, thumbnail, history, detail for drawing, coloring, analyzing, sharing mandala

for expressing user’s own mind and analyzing that state of mind.

OUR SOLUTION: MANDALA

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Our application will play the role like Jung's notebook.

Through drawing, coloring, analyzing, sharing mandala and arranging one's drawing history, the application can help healing children's state of mind. With our metro style application ‘mandala’, Children can express his/her own mind freely and get rid of stress.

Furthermore, Our application makes opportunities for interaction between children and parents. It let them communicate each other: A child tries to explain what his/her mandala means by saying, body language, or just drawing! Children get to know how to express his/her own state of mind more fluently.

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“I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time… only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: the Self, the wholeness of the personality, which if all goes well is harmonious.” (Carl Gustav Jung, 1965)

PROBLEM WE WANT TO HELP TO SOLVE

Societyis getting confused

Various television programs and some kinds of internet/mobile contents like apps, e-books and games give some experiences to children. It can be positive and productive sometimes, but usually make children violent and hot-tempered.

But industries doesn't let many of parents care their children. Most of parents still work for his/her own job during their children are growing up. So, for children, it is hard to get their knowledge, friendship, etiquette, linguistic habit... and also any essential things for living social life.

PROBLEM WE WANT TO HELP TO SOLVE

It makes

Childrenn e r v o u s

Children are getting inattentive, depressive and confused day by day.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, known as ADHD, is no more rare disease. Lack of attention, Impulsive action, over-action, Intellectual disability, Cerebral palsy, Autism, Down's syndrome... these are also already a kind of common inconvenience of children these days, not a rare disease anymore.

Children need to express their state of mind exactly and Some opportunities need for parents to communicate with their children.

APP OVERVIEW

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Drawing

Coloring

• can choose 12 colors of crayons• can control thickness of pens

Analyzing

Sharing

• can choose various types of patterns• also can use an empty circle

• drawings are arranged by several mode: thumbnail, history, detail

• can share what users drawn on any social network you’ve added

METRO STYLE DESIGN AND USER EXPERIENCE

USER EXPERIENCE

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When children run our application, At first they can choose a pattern. Then they can be faced with canvas directly. We made a canvas for them simple and shallow. It can preserve essences of mandala: don't think deeply, don't agonize and just draw what strikes to him/her. In canvas, a child would choose a pattern first (or can choose an empty circle). After picking a specific pattern, an user starts to draw and color. There are 12 colors of crayon to pick, thickness control bar. Every elements taken by user will be used for criteria for analyzing.

USER EXPERIENCE

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Parents can go to other menus like thumbnail, detail, history through the App Bar in canvas. As you click the 'Analyze Mode' icon in the App Bar, It'll be moved to the thumbnail screen. When user touches each tile on the thumbnail, detail page will be appeared. And on the right side of this thumbnail, there is history page arranged by metro style. Parents can check and grasp their son/daughter’s state of mind, and can share that images with other people.

DESIGN

Users can choose one out of several patterns.And an empty circle also can be used.

DESIGN: CANVAS

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Users can choose crayons for coloring out of 12 colors.

Users can control thickness and types of pen.

DESIGN: CANVAS

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App Bar in our canvas contains three buttons:

- Clear: can clear what you are currently drawing- Save: can save what you are currently drawing- Analyze: can access to ‘Analyze Mode’ for parents, can see more

details about drawings what children have drawn

DESIGN: THUMBNAIL

We used Grid View in here.

DESIGN: HISTORY

We used Flip View in here.

DESIGN: DETAIL PAGE

Users can see analysis of themselves: Used at the Center, Mostly Picked, Picked at FirstParents can write something happened during a child drew (in below drawing)

DESIGN: SEARCH

Users can search about Colors, Diaries, Tiles

DESIGN: SHARE

Users can send their mandala drawings to anywhere you want share (facebook, twitter, mail)

USER EXPERIENCE

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Range of

Children

Range of

Parents

Our application is pretty simple because it needs to be simple: First of all, it is made for Children! For children, this application is a simple sketchbook. Our application starts with mandala canvas. So children can draw his/her state of mind directly, just touching a tile pinned in start screen.

Moreover, our application is designed not only for children, but also for parents ultimately. A child drew and colored mandala, parents can see and try to understand more about those images. We present two types of details about images drawn by children. First is detail for each image. In that page, there are several analyzed data: color, number, shape, types of pens. And we also provide a history of mandala what a child has drawn. Besides, parents can write a comment for each image what a child listened to, said, act, and anything parents observed during drawing a mandala.

USER EXPERIENCE

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TouchFirst

Mobility

TabletFriendly

Principles

MandalaTo

Tile

‘mandala’ is completely tablet-friendly application. Windows 8 also has been optimized for touch device. What it means? Nothing but Windows 8 can complete our identifies! Entire process is based on touch such as drawing, coloring, analyzing, sharing.

Mobility, a strong point of tablet devices, is also can be a strong point of our application. Parents don't need to try to meet an art therapist or go to clinic by periods. If parents or children want to play mandala art therapy, turn on their own tablet and run our application ma.nda.la. It also means, they don't need to prepare several materials or to study an amount of theories for mandala activity!

‘Tile’ is one of specific feature of Metro UI. Like a bundle of data are united by a tile, children’s entire state of mind is mirrored in one mandala. In our application, each tile contains mandalas drawn by a child. Then tiles are arranged in Grid for thumbnail. When users choose a mandala in that thumbnail, a tile expands for explain details about chosen one.

a tile = a mandala

WINDOWS 8 PLATFORM

VIEWS

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GridView

FlipView

Views

Grid View is used in the thumbnail page of our app. Through this Grid View type, there can be displayed drawings in a view. So parents can look around and find what they want.

In History page of our app, We used Flip View which can display a

particular thing more concretely. In this page, some of drawings are

arranged by date. This kind of arrangement shows flow of

changing tendency. Children’s state of mind got better or got worse,

parents can observe that flow at a glance.

CONTRACTS

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SearchContract

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As you touch (or click) the ‘Search’ icon on the Charm, you can search some of relative things with children’s own mandala. You can search kinds of the name of drawings, letters you(parents) have written in each drawing, colors which is picked by children.

Through the ‘Share’ icon on the Charm, you can share what you drew in the detail page of each items. If you share drawings you drew, I’m sure you can apprehend your(or your children’s) status more objectively through many comments and reactions from various users on Social Network Services like Facebook or Twitter.

TILES & ROAMING

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Roaming

Tablet

Children

Desktop

Parents

When children draw a mandala in a tablet device, a drawing what a child drew is automatically saved in Skydrive than available on user’s Windows Live ID.

When parents are outside of home, they can observe their child’s drawing on the other desktop or laptop. Because their child’s drawings are already saved in Skydrive automatically!They can see their child’s state of mind ubiquitously.

TIles Windows 8 Metro Style application contains all contents in tiles. All contents like texts, drawings are posted and arranged by unit of Tile. Each mandala drawings are considered as a tile, so people who use our application can naturally feel the Metro UX without changing or transforming some useful points of Metro Style UI.

a tile = a mandala

PRESENTATION & POLISH

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In our video presentation, things in below are highlighted:

UserExperienc

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ConcreteDemonstrations by

Target Users

ProblemDefinition

In video presentation, we introduce how to use our application by user experience step-by-step, not just by the list of features.

Children who used our application first time are really interested in and concentrated on drawing mandala. There are demo videos of several children who have been drawn mandala through our application.

We explain the problem what we should solve: Lack of interaction between parents and children, children’s various mental disease.