Project 2 - progress report

Testing out a mock up of the interactive glove:




An example of the visual output I've achieved so far:

Project2-concept2

interface:
The interface will be a pair of interactive gloves and the idea is to take the command/instruction from my hand's action and carry out relevant activity on screen.

visual:
The idea for the visual output is to make fast food such as Mc Donal, Burger King etc look disgusting, so to encourage people not to take too much of these unhealthy food.

General concept
The visual will be composed of several clips of close up shots of people eating food in a disgusting way. These clips will change among each other depending on which button i press on my interactive glove. The clip that i pull up will initially pauses, and when i do some hand actions it will starts playing the clip. For example if i pull up a clip of a person eating a burger, when i do a "eating burger" hand action, the person on screen will starts to eat the burger as well. Besides this interaction, the glove can control other elements of the video as well, such as color, cross fading etc.

Project 2 - Concept

The objective of this project is to create a performance based digital media experience using a new form of interface. My general concept for this project is to create an interface that mix and shuffles the audio and visual upon the "play" of fingers.

VISUAL

For the visual display, its gonna be composed using footages of bedrooms. The footages will be of clips taken from rooms with the same size but different in layout and decorations, and in each room carry out different activities. For example one clip might be of a clean and tidy room, when wind breeze into the room it flips the pages of the book on the table. Another clip might be of a dirty and messy room with dull lightings. Through the interaction with its interface, these clips can use to express different emotions.

INTERFACE

The interface will be a pair of glove with force pad attached to each finger tips. Each force pad is a control to one element of the video, could be color, speed, clip selection etc. Depending on my actions and how I play around with my hands and fingers, it mix and shuffle up the different elements of the video. For example if I claps my hand gently it shows the clean room with peaceful atmosphere, and when I starts to claps vigorously, it fades into the clip of the messy room and camera might started to shake and other effect started to show up. In such a way I am composing a video that records and express my emotions at that moment of time.

Overall, my project aims to demonstrate the emotions of my actions and behavior through architecture.

Project 2 - some thoughts and inspirations

I was thinking of an interface that controls using fingers. Maybe infra-red sensors or force pads attached to the finger tips that mixs and shuffles the audio and visual upon the "play" of fingers.

interacting...

movie showing user interacting with the switch, and its visual response.

testing out the switch and visual response

This is just one of the possible way for setup.

* picture was taken when testing out the switch and the visual response.

final switch design

This switch plays on the idea of weight and balancing.
However, it has simply but effective function mode.
The user can tilt to the left to activate left button, tilt to the right to activate right button, or keep the balls all spread out to deactivate both buttons.