Tightening Our Concept
- Nov 11, 2014
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Assigment #3
Tighten your concept and be specific with regard to the Where, Who, What, and How. Find five projects that are 'in your space'.
After giving a second thought to our previous idea, we came to realize that the space we chose- meeting room, is banal. Therefore, we tried to think about other spaces in which people who know each other interact. We came up with several ideas:
Nursing Home
Support Group
Camping Tent
A living room
With regard to these spaces, we then started thinking about technology that can enhance or help communication between people in those spaces. We focused on two approaches:
Objects that encourage or require cooperation.
Object as a basis for improvisation.
We came out with the following ideas:
a. Receipt box for roommates: The receipt box will be used to calculate shared expenses. Each roommate who buys something (with his own money) for collective use, will enter the receipt to the box. The box scans or photographs the receipt and calculates autonomously all the expenses. It can indicate, in real time, the expenses and the amount of money each roommate has spent.
our inspiration
b. Music improvisation mobile tool for camping: A camping trip is always better when a member of the group brings along a musical instrument. But many times the rest of the group can only sing along and clap. Most of us either don’t play a musical instrument or just don't have one with us. This is an ideal space for an object that can connect people through music and build a bridge for those who can't play. The idea is a small, hand sized digital device, that will allow its user to create music while synchronized with the rest of the group. Each member of the group can hold the battery operated device in the palm of their hand and together they will join forces to make an awesome harmonized camping trip.
c. Family painting: The family members create the living-room painting together by cooperating, using the shared space around them as their color palette. The painting is actually a blank screen on the wall. It has a compatible pen that can sense movement and sample colors from real object. The picture is being created through kind of a game, when each family member add his own part to the painting. By drawing on objects around them, family members actually draw on the painting. The result is an abstract family painting that can be different every day.
Drawing on a near object (a sofa for example) :
Seeing the result in the picture on the living-room wall:
Looking through existing project we found five projects that are "in our space":
1. RoomAlive : Transforms the living room into an interactive video game. Instead of merely playing a game on a screen, RoomAlive puts the players in the game, with visual elements projected onto the walls and surfaces of the living room. Using Kinect sensors, these visual elements are interactive.
2. i-VD Interactive DVD: An interactive movie at home. It can profile the users by asking questions, pay attention to users and understand needs, directly talk to each one about the right contents in the right tone, with the appropriate personalized style.
3. 'Bubble Board': A touchscreen designed to be attached to the kitchen wall for family messaging. It is another example of a person-to-place messaging allowing friends and family members to leave messages for all and anyone in a household.
4. Shoebox: Shoebox is an attempt to make the storage of digital photos more tangible. Photos can be sent wirelessly to the box, and users can browse through them by running their finger across the top of the box.
5. Case Study: A Message Board as a Technology Probe for Family Communication and Coordination.
In this paper, the authors describe the design of an electronic family message board and the initial results of its deployment in three households. The message board was used as a technology probe to help understand the communication and coordination needs of a distributed, multigenerational family. Using this information, they are working with the family as design partners to design new technologies.
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