User Scenario

Cindy, a second-year design student at OCAD, walks into the Auditorium on March 26, at 4pm. A first-year friend had mentioned to Cindy that her Introduction to Experience Design class was working on a project which would be on display that day and Cindy, having been in the class last year, is curious about what this year's students have come up with. Her friend had hinted at what her class might be doing, but she hadn't been particularly specific- "To keep the suspense up, and make sure you come see for yourself," she'd told Cindy.
Cindy hasn't had the best day, so her mood isn't really that great as she heads to the auditorium. She commutes from Hamilton to school every day, and today, because she had an oversized project due in one of her classes, she drove instead of taking the GO. As she walks through the entrance hall to the Auditorium she mutters to herself, "This batch of Experience-Designers better be geniuses to make up for the extra three bucks I'm spending on parking."
When she first walks into the auditorium, Cindy is a bit overwhelmed by the number of students and the amount of action in the room. Granted, for the most part people are just standing around mingling, though here and there a few people seem to be engaged in some of the activities the Experience Design students have come up with. She's a bit disappointed, as everything seems pretty disorganized, mixed up, and in some cases, by this point in the day, broken. To the students' credit, she observes, there are a lot more people here than last year- evidently the groups responsible for advertising the event did all of their homework. One project in particular draws her attention- an enormous black box, a miniature room within the room she's in, really, has been constructed at the far end of the auditorium. She's intrigued mainly because, unlike the other projects, she can't tell what's going on just by looking at it from where she stands. Cindy heads over to have a look.
As she approaches, Cindy is bombarded by her friend's shouts of, "Yay! you came! go inside and check it out."
Her friend all but drags her toward the entrance, a curtain on the far side of the box. Cindy's friend does her best Vana White as she presents the curtained doorway.
On her way through the curtain, Cindy nearly bumps into a group of three girls who are giggling as they exit. Cindy raises her eyebrows and wonders what's quite so funny, but realizes quickly when she steps into the surprisingly dark box and sees a pair of guys who are disco-dancing. And no wonder- strobe lights are flashing overhead! The dancing is pretty funny, but so far this reminds Cindy more of an elementary school haunted house than an Experience Design project.
The guys head out momentarily. Without them to entertain her, Cindy takes a step forward to see if this project has anything else to offer. Suddenly the strobe lights cease and she feels wind blowing on her. It's still pretty dim inside, but without the blinding strobe lights she takes in her surroundings and notices that she's standing on a slightly raised platform. The floor is comprised of four giant squares: the one she'd just stepped off of was white, while those across from her were red and black. Cindy just so happens to be standing on a blue one at the moment, but one long stride takes her to the black. The wind is no longer blowing, nor have the strobe lights resumed. This time, it's almost completely dark, and loud music is blaring at her. Surprised by the noise, Cindy quickly jumps to the final square. This one is red, and though she doesn't notice anything at first, the box quickly begins to heat up. "Woah, it's hot in here," comments a newcomer. As this person steps inside onto the first square, the strobe lights start up again.
Having had her fun testing out all the squares, and not being particularly interested in sharing the small space with the four people who had just entered, Cindy leaves and reunites with her friend.
"That was awesome! How does it work, anyway?" Cindy asks her friend, who simply smiles slyly and shrugs. "Well, it looks like a pretty complicated set-up, but it's so worth it," Cindy gushes. Her friend smiles appreciatively and says, "Yeah, it was a bit of work, but you'd be surprised what our class is capable of.
Cindy's expectations hadn't been that high going in- she'd figured the projects would be cool, of course, but her main reason for being here today was to support her friend. After seeing this she decided to take a look at some of the other Experience Design projects. What the hell, she figured- she might as well waste some time now before heading into the rush-hour traffic that awaited her on the QEW. "I'm not gonna lie, I'd seriously underestimated you guys- that was so cool," she told her friend as she waved goodbye and headed for another class' project.