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  kasiawitek 4:16 pm on May 15, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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  FEELING PRESENCE. Final Project documentation. 

  PERSONAL MESSAGES CAN EXIST OUTSIDE TEXTS AND E-MAILS.

  

  Personal messages can and should be communicated through an exponential with meaning. The way we perceive time, structure our time and react to time is a powerful communication tool and helps set the stage for communication. I wanted to make a wireless communication situation that would exist in a monochronic time. This means that things are done one at a time and time is segmented into precise, small units.

  In Feeling Presence, I wanted to promote positive thinking amongst little girls. It is a communication system for a young girl, age 4 to 8 and her mom. The users I had in mind is a child who just recently started pre-school and misses her mom and a young working mom.Feeling presence consists of a belt and purse for mom and a soft toy-like purse for the little girl. The buttons on the girl’s purse, proud, happy and kind send messages to mom’s belt. The light on the receiving end corresponds to the message sent. Blue for proud, yellow for kind and red for happy.

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  Light On Project    http://alexandertwang.com/archives/390

  Kissnger   http://inspir3d.net/2012/02/03/kissnger-a-kiss-transfer-robot/

  

  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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  KB 8:46 pm on May 13, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Buzz Toy – Final Documentation 

  KJ Barr  |  Buzz Buzz – Wireless Toy

  Buzz Buzz is an interactive toy that uses sound and vibration to indicate location. With Buzz Buzz a child has the opportunity to play hide and seek style game with a toy interaction.

   

  This toy takes a spin off of the classic warmer warmer, cooler cooler, game. By using RF communication I was able to create Buzz Buzz. This toy is a bee hive and bee that contain two Arduinos. When the bee gets closer to the hive, the hive send a signal to the bee causing it to buzz and vibrate. This buzzing and movement is intended to be an indication to the player that they are getting closer to the hive. If they do not hear the buzz or feel the vibration then they know that they are not in the correct direction.

  Check out this short video about Buzz Buzz

  

   

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  Future Directions: I feel that buzz buzz could be a very fun and exciting toy. In the future I would alter the toy slightly first by making the demographic much larger. I would address this first by changing the enclosure design for a more mature but still well designed enclosure. Secondly, I would add another element for a group dynamic. This element would communicate with other players bees creating a different swarming noise.

   

  KJ Barr  |  Buzz Buzz – Wireless Toys

   

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  aisencc 12:43 am on May 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Conference Paper CHI format 

  This particular template is for the NIME conference : nime-template

   

  This was my paper entry: Chacin_Aisen_Play-A-Grill

   

   

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  Yury Gitman 6:35 pm on May 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Major Studio: Project Written Doucmentation 

  Prepare a PDF documenting your work.

  Written Documentation Guidelines:
  This document will be composed of the following sections.

  +  A Thesis Sentence and Thesis Paragraph:  One sentence that summarized the big picture of the project.  This is located in on paragraph that expands on that one sentence.
  +Summary: a narrative description of the project:  What is it, who is it designed for, what is it designed to do, what kind of technology, design, or culture does it explore, etc.

  +Domains:  What are the domains with which your project engages? What relationships exist between these domains? Use diagrams.

  +Precedents:  What are examples of work that share something in common with your project? These precedents can be contemporary or historical, can be drawn from the realms of design, technology, sociology, psychology, etc. In preparing this section of your document, please include the following information for each precedent discussed:
  • title of work and author/designer/artist
  • brief description of project
  • relevance/relation of the project to your own work

  +Iterative Design Process and User-testing:  A narrative description of your process, prototypes, user-testing, key methods and discoveries, sample sketches, storyboards, diagrams, etc.
  

  +Evaluation: the Evaluation section of your document has three parts:
  • a narrative summary that outlines your thoughts on the strengths and
  weaknesses of your project.
  • a list of criteria that you are using to evaluate the quality of your project. These criteria will be shared with the critics during your final presentation, and will serve as the basis for feedback during your review.

  • a summary of feedback you received during your final project presentation.
  

  Future Directions: Summarizes what step would be taken if this project would be continued in the future. This should be written absolutely last, and after final presentations.  Use photo-shopped images if needed to communicate future visions.

  +Bibliography, References, Resources: a list of important works used to guide your project. Bibliographic information should include the title of the work, author(s), publication date, publisher, and pages cited.

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    best seo reseller 10:35 am on June 27, 2013 Permalink | Reply

    “Zune as well as iPod: Most folks compare the actual Zune to touch, but right after seeing how slim and surprisingly tiny and light it really is, I consider it to become a rather unique hybrid which combines attributes of the two Touch and the Nano. It’s extremely colorful along with lovely OLED display is a bit smaller as opposed to touch display, but you itself feels quite a bit smaller as well as lighter. It weighs in at about 2/3 the maximum amount of, and can be noticeably smaller in width and level, while being just a hair thicker.”

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  Joe Volpe 6:45 pm on May 8, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Final: Making Wireless Toys 

  As of now my project is named “flow”. It will be a device that tracks height and rotation for bmx riders. Some day I hope this device will be developed further to track an extensive library of bmx tricks.

  

  Look and Feel Prototype:

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  This device will be mounted on the down tupe on any bmx frame. This is the ideal placement due to it being the point of least contact during riding and other bmx tricks.

  

  The electronics for the device will be imbedded into this foam pad that will be wrapped in decorative fabric. Not only is the padding practical but, the padding holds a nostalgic feeling to most riders and will be a retro throw back reference to the younger days of freestyle bmx of the early 1980’s.
  

  Role Prototype:

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  In the role involving the average consumer, I imagine this product being used as a way to document tricks and rider progression and sharing it on line.

  2. I also can see a role being used in conjunction with a video camera app or camera app on smart phones to aid this documentation, sharing, and user experience.

  

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  My last predicted role, this product could be used during televised competitions to create athletic statistics. A rider’s average speed, height, and rotation could be documented and displayed in a news ticker during the competition.

  Future Prototypes:

  1. I imagine that this will built as a smart phone app,to work with the sonic range finder, as smart phones do possess most of the necessary hardware to achieve this. I am just concerned about physical placement of the phone on the bike or the body of the rider, and types on phones varying in too much of a degree for it to be widely accepted.

  2. My second implementation involves actually building the electronics using arduino. I would like the arduino to transmit the athletic statistics to a smart via blue tooth.
  I have already begun to test out a variety of sensors for this project. The height from the ground information will be gathered using an ultrasonic range finder, and rotation will use a combination of accelerometers, composes, and gyros. All of this will need to by gyroscopically mounted to the down tupe the bike frame.

  

  Precedence:

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  Sports Bio Engineering PhD student Tristan McNab plans on developing iphone software to track athletic information during track and field sports .

  also here is a link to an array of athletic uses for various sensors http://wockets.wikispaces.com/WirelessMonitors

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  http://www.revolights.com/

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    Saul 5:14 pm on May 1, 2013 Permalink | Reply

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  naterudolph 11:31 pm on May 7, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Fish Freedom Trailer 

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  adamsabh 10:32 pm on May 7, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Quick Notes 5/7 

  1. My project is an audio to visual interactive installation meant to prompt users to be as loud as they can in support of their community (aka sports team).

  2. Big findings during the evolution of my process.

  1. People are not as observant as I gave them credit for before I started my project

  2. People find comfort in large groups to perform “attention-calling” actions.

  3. It is hard to stop people to interact with a project when there are tickets and a time constraint involved.

  3. My project is different than the already existing audio to visual interactive installations during a sporting event because it transfers data instantaneously, is in real-time, and is a TRUE direct correspondence of audio and visual.

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  naterudolph 5:25 pm on May 3, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Rasberry Pi 

  Anyone else on this site would probably also find this really, really interesting. It’s like a miniature computer, or a super powerful Arduino. For 25 bucks! It runs on Linux from what I’ve seen, but I don’t think you can buy one just yet. Looks like the kind of thing we’ll all be using in a couple years though:

  http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

  

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    Joe Volpe 7:47 pm on May 3, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    You might also find this interesting.

    http://www.samratamin.com/Ardumote.html

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  naterudolph 6:31 am on May 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Fish Freedom: Car Test 

  It moves!

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    Mike 6:28 pm on May 6, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Nice! Looks like that fish has things to do somewhere.

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  Yury Gitman 7:21 pm on May 1, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Final Documentation Video Requirements [Making Toys] 

  Create a 45-120 second Video that includes:

  1)
  Title and Your Name

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  One Sentence Description

  3)
  One Paragraph Summary

  4)
  Demo item stand-along

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  Demo item with users

  6)
  Slide of Iterations/ Prior Art inspirations [Biggest Findings, Differences from Prior Art]

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  Future Directions,
  Image(s) and List

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  Your Name. Project Name

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  Yury Gitman 1:28 am on May 1, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Major Studio Final Presentation Slides 

  1)
  Title and Your Name

  2)
  Thesis, Sentence –  One Image

  3a)
  Thesis Paragraph, Image, Statement

  3b)
  Demo (or Demo Video) 20-60 seconds

  4)
  Domains

  5)
  Precedents / Prior Art

  6)
  Iterations of prototypes [Biggest Findings, Differences from Prior Art]

  7)
  Hands-On Interaction 60-120 seconds.

  8)
  Future Directions,
  Image(s) and List

  9)
  Questions for Guest Critics, you’d like feedback on..

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