Delaney Brummond

I decided to do my observation at Synapse Physical Therapy. Yes, I was there because I had to be, but I have been there before, many times, and have been observing over time. This most recent visit I focused even more on the movement and interactions between the employees and patients. I also was concentrating on how people interact differently with different employees.

People enter through the front door, as shown in the picture of the exterior of the building below. They pass the front desk (or go to the front desk if they need to talk to Sage). Then they do a U-turn and go back toward where the larger windows, unless they are getting evaluated for the first time. This is the main room. There are tables for people to be worked on, empty space, rolling chairs/laptop holders, and equipment.

Upon entry into the main room, the patient is typically greeted while the employee finishes up on their current patient. Unless it’s their first time, for the most part people know what to do during this time, and often there is one employee for every patient. If this is not the case this leads to some standing around of the patients, waiting for instructions from the employee.

There are limited social interaction barriers. The main room is shaped in a way that you can see most of the room from any point. This leads to a very social environment. Often times the entire room will be having one conversation, even if there are several patients and employees. All spaces are used, but some spaces are used less often than others. I have never seen the stair master been used. There are two tables in the middle that serve as personal items or smaller equipment holders. The junk drawer of the room.

As far as play or connectivity, there is already a LOT of connectivity. At first I was almost overwhelmed by the back and forth of the employees and the level of sass and often vulgarity of subjects. There is not a ton of room for play. There is a patient who often brings his dog in. This does lead to playing with the dog, which occurs in the largest space in the room, which is not very large.

Overall, there is a lot more that could be said about a variety of things about Synapse Physical Therapy, but this is what I have observed about the space, not getting too far into the social interactions/hierarchy.

In our food log diaries, we found that a lot of us eat the same thing repeatedly or have leftovers of one ingredient, with no known use for that ingredient past what was just made.

Although our POV is toward younger adults that have a hard time with coming up with meals, it also could be used for just about anyone. We decided that it would be best to make an app where you log where you have and it will make you meals or grocery lists to get items to round out what you already have. Ideally we also would add something to notify when something is going to expire. See below for additional information.

Our group was a mixed letter group, but we picked the letter I. We decided to do a serif font, which finally we decided to be Georgia (which I ended up kind of going away from in my sketches) but we decided in our final design to have a combination of the old pillar type, serif font intertwined with ivy and vines on said pillar to show the contrast between the I (self) that is standing still and stays the same vs the I that evolves through time.

Our documentary is about how to scare people, named The Horror Handbook. The synopsis of our documentary is to show how people have been scared in the past, show different ways to scare people and determine how to scare them, and finally, people testing out their techniques.

Our decisions for our designs were based on trying to convey both the horror theme and the fact that it was teaching people how to scare others. It was debated whether we should do a bunch of scary things to say it’s not just one idea but in the end we decided to focus on one idea, which was someone being in the mirror and scaring someone that saw the scary thing in the mirror.

Hello, my name is Delaney, and this is my personal documentation manifesto.

My goal in my journey through Creative Technology & Design is to create works that further my knowledge. In doing this, I want to be able to document the process of my creations. This may look different to everyone, but I am aiming for taking pictures along the way, and additionally doing a time lapse when time and focus allows for one.

I have not done any documentation of progress during a work in the past, other than showing my progress to my friends and later deleting the screenshots I took. These screenshots are essential for me learning to grow and learning how to best go about each project, while simultaneously learning how to better my work, and work more efficiently.