Friday, March 7, 2008

WEEK-10 Prototyping plans

This week we go through into the detail operation of physical computing workshop.I feel it not that hard than Processing.Now I can make my Led blinking by moving Tag.I think that is a good start for the workshop in next week.

Concept
After talking with tutors, I got some inspiration for my main project. I pick some keywords and put them into my concept.
Website-Abstract-Feeling-Pass by-Feedback
The processing start with a specific website .People who lived in same building can put their information or discussion into that website.
When I collected the data from quick workshop last time, I found all these information show the mood of the presenter.For instance the Proposal means active,happy,exciting and caring.Complain means annoying,angry,boring.and Inform means some neutral emotion.Those emotion can also be considered as the whole building's feeling.

An object which transformer that feeling by abstract patterns.it suppose to set nearby the elevator that people can pass by and also stick to interact.the original state is lay out the general emotion of the whole building.

Every residents has their own card which can use to check information that separate by different tags like GROUP or PERSONAL.the object will notice some problem by changing patterns.
According to that feedback by people to put their card on the reflect area,they can go to website to get detail explain by text message and handle them on time.
If the problem was leave there for long time,the pattern of object will fade partial into background .Once all pattern disappear, the object will died.

Prototyping plans
For output,I think i will focus on the feedback
when the card touch that object.
how to show the emotion ?
by color? frequency?
Should it be a pattern or something else? light? voice? wind? temperature?
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For input,I prefer to use Rfid Tag card and give them a function by edit code.

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