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fig9 Group photo with Provost Wei Shyy after the project exhibition at HKUST.

Some project teams quickly came
up with an interesting topic and started to work on development, while other
teams struggled with project ideas.
One reason for this was the course
had 11 instructors, and it was hard to
reach a general consensus regarding
each team's finalized topic. Students
were sometimes confused by different
opinions given by different instructors.
All course instructors wanted each
project to have both a strong engineering flavor and prominent artistic
flair. However, the industrial design
instructors and inter-media art instructors often disagreed on whether
practicality should be a deciding factor
in project design.
Another problem we encountered
was how the students did not take

feasibility of the project into account,
despite the demanding deadline of
having only ten days to complete the
project. Some students preferred their
own flawed ideas over the more feasible
ideas from instructors. Eventually,
we resolved these disagreements by
simply letting students choose and
plan projects that really excited them.
After all, their ideas are a product of
their own creativity, and creativity is
what we strive to promote through
this course.

Course projects and exhibition
The last two weeks of the course was
at HKUST. During this time, students had a very limited amount of
time to transform their ideas into either a real product or a media piece.

(a)

(b)

fig10 "Mr. and Ms. Potato." (a) A "potato" that can be controlled by a mobile phone.
(b) The students demonstrated the project in front of instructors and classmates.

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We arranged a one-day exhibition for
all the project teams. Each team was
assigned a space and it was their job
to decide on how to best showcase
their final pieces. We asked each
team to display a poster and provide
a short presentation and a live demonstration during the course of the
exhibition day. Together, the instructors graded each team separately
and agreed upon final grades
through a series of group meetings.
The exhibition was attended by
Wei Shyy (Fig. 9), provost of HKUST,
and industrial partners. The projects were highly creative and could
not have been completed without
teamwork and the collaboration of
different skills provided by HKUST
and CAA students. As a result of
these varying skills, the event was
very successful.
We believe that the "technology meets art" concept was fulfilled
through this course by the completion of fascinating end products. The
following two projects are examples
that show what students achieved
in this course and how "technology
meets art" is a concept with significant future potential.
The first project, "Mr. and Ms.
Potato" (Fig. 10), was produced by a
team that consisted of one HKUST
student from the Electrical and
Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, one HKUST student from
the IELM Department, and two CAA
students from the Industrial Design
School. This product was designed
for those people who are in a relationhip but live in different locations,
with each person having a "potato"
that can connect to some social media account of the other person. It
looked transparent with light-emitting diode light built in the core. The
color of the light was controlled by a
mobile phone, which was connected
to some social media platform (like
Facebook or Twitter) of the other person. For example, if a person feels
depressed, the light of the "potato"
becomes blue. If you want to cheer
up your partner, you can touch the
potation and the light will then turn
pink. The structural and visual designs were completed by the CAA



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