We have somehow made a dramatic change this week, by that mean we are now focusing more on gamifying the training experience rather than the technical platform we are going to use. The reason why we shift our focus is mainly because we receive some new inputs from our client, …

We have our Boston trip on Monday this week. In a relatively short amount of time, we have a tour at EMD Billerica. It’s our pleasure to have Dr. Michael Cunningham, associate director of EMD who has been working on the training session for years, to give us a brief …

For week 4, the week before Quarters, after getting the basic idea of the model of equipment we’re going to make the tutorial for, we did more research on that equipment and did brainstorming for possible game design ideas for different devices. For devices, as Yiheng mentioned last week, we …

This week we worked on different things. After discussing with our client from Merck again, we know the equipment that we are going to train the operators is a machine called Mobius Bioreactors. It is a scalable portfolio of stirred tank bioreactors that provide flexibility by configuring software, hardware, and …

This week we finally had the first meeting with our client. Our client re-stated their needs, which is creating interactive training process to teach technicians how to install, utilize, and maintain some lab instrument. Our client also wants us to help resolve some problems in the current training process, including …

The Merck project starts on August 29th! Came back to the Entertainment Technology Center for another semester and had our first meeting with the project’s instructors. We prepared for meeting our client, Merck KGaA, which is also known as EMD in the US, by doing research on their business, looking …