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  • Amp 8:42 am on December 29, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Meditation board 

     

  • Amp 8:41 am on December 29, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Pleats Project 

     

  • kristenkersh 10:43 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Knight Rider / Sound Toy 

    Images:

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    Problems: — Inside out patterns work —- One way works but going back does not work

    Sound Toy:

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    Code: toysoundcode

     

  • salome 10:25 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Final: Mood Magic 

    magic ball

    Magic Mood

    Description:
    For the final project, I wanted to use the pulse sensor in Arduino to communicate with openFrameworks. Inspired by 80s arcade style fortune tellers, I created Mood Magic. It sends a user’s BPM to openFrameworks, which then translates into a “mood.” The video documentation is heavily inspired by all the late night psychic infomercials from the early 90s.

    Precedents:
    fortune teller machine

    Video:

     

  • kristenkersh 10:02 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Final Project: Fresh Air for the Brain 

    Above is the slide show from my presentation.

    This is not a piece to put in a gallery it is a means to an end which will produce information for what type of aspects in reactive interior design and architectural design support learning and creates a “safe” optimal learning  environment based on empirical data. It will explore the use of  plants to enhance the environment of a classroom by comparing quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data will be collected using an wearable brain computer interface head gear that measurers EEG waves and a written test. Participants will also be filmed which will be analyzed based on body movement and participants will fill out a survey based on their experience. This data will be analyzed and produce a data visualization. This visualization will then be translated onto cross sections of a tree visually comparing not only the brain waves and learning data but also the tree rings.

    History / Narrative.

    In 2008 I taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in downtown Denver Colorado. I was a special educator case manager and a math intervention teacher. While teaching I noticed that many of my students would have a fear response to specific changes in a room or while moving through the building. I began exploring possible causes for these reactions to physical space and found that these students were having a physical mental reaction to their surroundings due to the natural dissemination of sensory information through their nuero-networks. This system effected their ability to attain new information. Therefore I found it important to study the effects of specific aspects of a school to determine what designers can due to create spaces that are optimal learning environments. In order to do this one must understand the systems in the brain responsible for sensory intake.

    Sensory information is observed and filtered through the limbic system in the brain. The limbic system houses and intake filter called the reticular activating system (RAS). The RAS is a primitive network of cells in the lower brain stem. All sensory information is routed through the RAS system. Of the millions of bits of sensory information available only several thousand of these are selected. This process is involuntary and automatic.  The information that is passed through to the areas of the brain that process information are only that which is most critical to survival. The RAS systems gives priority to changes in the environment that are appraised to be threatening. When there is perceived threat the RAS automatically selects related information and directs it to the lower brain which is reactive and responds with “fight, flight, or freeze” (Raz, Buhle, 2006).

    When there is no threat the other type of information that the RAS is receptive to is novelty and changes associated with pleasure and sensory input that arouses curiosity. This type of information then gets sent to the frontal cortex which is responsible for higher order thinking and processed into working or long term memory.  The RAS system is an evolutionary advantage. It is one aspect that allows for the ability to learn and then adapt to our soundings based on self preservation (Wang, 2005).

    It is important to understand what types of environments will create a novel, non-threatening aspects that allow for the RAS system to pass on new information, such as knowledge taught by teachers to the thinking part of the brain . Design becomes important in this equation. That is why I chose to explore the effects of plants on a learning environment and measure these effects by using qualitative and quantitative data. This experiment, collecting data about a space through the use of interactive new technology, allowed me to make certain findings to apply to further design practices. These findings were possible because of the three parts of the project that I had to design. These parts are the experiment procedure, the design and creation of the space and the design and creation of headwear that can read brain waves.

    Process / Experiment Design: 

    It was difficult to design this experiment as it’s place is within the intersection of design and science. It does not apply to pure scientific experiment rules as found in classic EEG laboratories because of the subject that is being studied. The space in which is being assessed through the experience of the participant is multifaceted and therefore it is hard to control the amount of variables. In order to attain valid data I used the following methods.

    1. Blind study
    2. Survey to select participants
    3. qualitative / quantitative data
    4. coding and triangulation

    The first step of designing the experiment was to conduct a blind study. The blind study consisted of three participants. One wore the headwear while watching a movie, one wore it while watching a cartoon, and all three wore it for one hour while they completed various tasks. This was done to assess the reliability of the headwear and to account for spikes or similarities between “typical” interactions and environments and the experiment space.

    A survey was created to make sure participants were not familiar with the content of the instructional videos. This survey also collected data on the age, gender, native language and phobias of participants these where then included and coded into the qualitative data.

    When comparing and correlating data qualitative and quantitative data was collected. As mentioned previously a pre survey was give, a post survey to see what the participant reported as the positive or influences of the environment and two short exit examines on the content presented.

    Lastly all of the qualitative data was coded for similarities, phrases and trends. The quantitative data then was compared based on the mean of specific individuals and the total mean of all participants.

    The procedure of the experiment was as follows. First the participant was fitted with the headwear and asked to fill out a pre-survey. Then the participant was placed into a typical classroom. This classroom consisted of florescent lights, two projection screens and one large table and 3 chairs. Participants watched a video about birds with the door closed. After the video they filled out a short assessment of the video. The participants where then moved into the second plant environment. In this environment the participant watched a second video about cardinals on an ipad. When they finished they filled out a short assessment. The headgear was then removed and participants filled out a post survey.

    Space Design: 

    It was difficult to find a space that could be used for an installation for more then one week. I decided to build my own small room and found a quite space that adhered to the fire codes of the building. The room was constructed using sustainable materials which gave the overall piece a mixed aesthetic. The found wood consisted of various composite woods, and many two by four pressure treated pine lumber. I used cable wire to cross brace each side to add stability to the structure.

    The space was designed to create a room that was constructed of plat walls. To create the illusion of a wall made from plants each four by six panel consisted of a frame and then three shelf like flower beds which held soil and plants. Each flower bed was four feet long with three inch high siding. The structure only consisted of three walls as adding more would of created a smaller confident which would be dark and could cause claustrophobia. The basic initial sketches can be seen in the attached figures.

    Headwear Design: 

    In the beginning of the project the wearability of the headwear was not the main focus. Instead the headwear was simply supposed to be unobtrusive and functional. I was focused on the weight of the head gear and the ability for it to collect data and send it wirelessly to the computer.

    To collect the brain wave EEG data I used a hack that can be found on the link posted on my blog. This hack walks you thorough how to use a Mindflex headwear which is made for a toy by Metal. This toy reads raw EEG signals which then controls a balls action within the game. The key is the Nueroscky chip which is within the Mindflex headgear. There is a pin which you can connect the arduino to receive the data on your computer. The arduino must have its own power source separate from the Mindflex. I then used the brain library, to test the serial read of the EEG reader. Once I got that to work I augmented the example code to make an LED light blink based on the signal strength of the attention information signal.

    After having played with the Mindflex and understanding the data I embarked on the task to make the headgear wireless using a rx and tx receiver and transmitter. This turned out to be very difficult. I got the transmitter and receiver to communicate in hex code by using the virtual wire library which can be found on my blog. I changed the original code to include the brain library and received DEX (numeric) data. The data the computer received and the order in which it was received it was incorrect.  I worked with the code for many days and finally concluded that it must be a problem with the buf and bit length between the two libraries. I hacked the header file for each library but was not able to change the correct areas to make it work. I will be continuing to pursue this task but due to the time limit of the project I ended up continuing to pursue wireless by using the SD card breakout board that can be found on Adafruit.

    The code that I used for the SD card reader was a combination of the brain library and the example SD card library found in arduino. I also then augmented code provided by a colleague Sarah Weaver who’s work can be found on my blog.

    After user testing and receiving feedback that the headwear was too heavy and distracting I decided to move forward with a different design. The design idea came from a friends unity scarf. This scarf when worn on the head was soft warm and comforting. I used this design and added pockets so that the machine pieces could rest on the shoulder of the participant. These pockets were created to be movable so that based on the participants height they could still rest on the shoulder. The unity scarf had a headband in which the EEG reader pushed against the forehead.  The EEG was concealed and the headband was made of elastic and velcro so that it could fit correctly.

    Tree Ring Statement:  

    It has long been understood that humans’ interaction with their physical space effects cognitive development, physical development, brain development, and success in life. (Eberhard, 2011; Bingler,1995; David & Wienstein, 1987 ; Taylor, 1995 ; Bradley, 1998) Recent studies show that enriched environments and our interaction with them effects brain development (Baroncelli et all, 2010 ; Davis, 2004 ; Kempermann et all 1997). Therefore the architecture and physical facilities of schools, homes, and workplace need to be designed with neuroscience research in mind to facilitate positive productivity and overall success. Architects have an overwhelming responsibility to use this knowledge to make sure that schools create enriched environments to support neuron growth during optimal development periods and take into account the plasticity of the brain (Eberhard 2009). Many researchers have argued about how to impact brain development, and student achievement within schools. Studies have looked at the effects of light, sound, air quality, pedagogy, furniture, open space, and meeting the basic needs of humans as identified in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. (Hardiman, 2010 ; Letterick, 2010 ; Eberhard, 2008). This piece is the culmination of a study that explored the use of  plants to enhance the environment of a classroom by comparing quantitative and qualitative data and engraving this data on cross sections of trees.

    Tree rings reflect the climatic conditions of the given year in which the tree grew. Droughts, heat and rain all effect the color and width of a ring. I have chosen to display the data visualization comparison of EEG brain wave and test score data on these cross sections because of the similarities that the growth of trees have to that of a developing brain. In both cases the environment plays a key role in the development and growth of the entity.

    Findings / Discussion: 

    Seventy-five percent of participants had a higher level of concentration within the plant structure as compared to the typical classroom. One hundred percent of participants had higher levels of meditation within the plant structure as compared to the regular classroom. In total the meditation level mean increase was twenty three percent higher within the plant inclosure. It was found through coding the qualitative data that most participants mentioned the smell of the plants as a factor for why they found the plant structure more desirable.  Many participants also noted that they enjoyed the warm feeling of the headwear. They also noted that when the headgear was worn they felt focused and calm. Overall there was only a small increase in mastery of the lesson components. The mean increase was four percent which is statistically significant.

    Images of data viz:

    Conclusion: 

    There needs to be more explorations like this one into the various design elements and its effect on learning.  Many other aspects that have been researched are the use of natural light, open space versus enclosed space, acoustics and air quality. Research in this field has been based on the collection of qualitative data. In order to know how to construct and design interior spaces within a school to reach learning goals we must focus on creating similar experiments. Moving forward I have found that the smell of fresh plants have supported a calmer learning environment. My next step is to prototype various products or integration of plants into everyday school objects to support optimal learning.

    References:

    Code: 

    Brain Hack Instructions:

    http://frontiernerds.com/brain-hack

    Brain Library:

    https://github.com/kitschpatrol/Arduino-Brain-Library

    Virtual Wire Library :

    http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/

    Research: 

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    Dalton, RC and Hoelscher, and Spiers, HJ (2010) Navigating Complex Buildings: Cognition, Neuroscience and Architectural Design. In: Gero, J, (ed.) Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity. Springer Verlag

    Damasio, A. R. (1999). The feeling of what happens : Body and emotion in the making of consciousness (1st Harvest ed.). New York: Harcourt Inc.

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  • carolkozak 9:52 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Heart Ping by Carol Kozak 

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    Here is my final video.

    Heart Ping is a lamp that blinks and fades to the beat of your heart.  White spheres turn red and then fade back to white.  The light show is both systematic in that it blinks each time your heart beats and disorderly as it never plays the same show twice.

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  • itsjennkaye 9:36 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Table for Two 

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    Table for Two is an interactive installation that simulates a romantic date. Two users sit at the table and clip pulse sensors to their ear lobes. Each pulse sensor is attached to a piece of “spaghetti,” which winds around an interior motor to the beat of each user’s heart. As it winds, the piece of “spaghetti” becomes shorter and the users are drawn in closer to each other. This makes their hearts beat even faster.

    Dinner for Two from Jennifer Kaye on Vimeo.

    This project was inspired by Lady and the Tramp.

    Lady and the Tramp

     

  • Chy 6:38 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    DITO CONCERTO 

    Dito Concerto is both music instrument and light performance at the same time. The right hand would control all output such as, frequency, duration, and pitch. Each finger contain different range of frequency and that frequency could be increase or decrease by moving and turning the right hand. While the left hand would focus on the light performance. This instrument could be use in both solo, and duo performance.

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    I changed the controlling glove from using copper wire to conductive fabric and thread. IMG_0141

     

     

  • trytobegood 4:11 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Mimic | Physical Computer Final 

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    Mimic is an art piece which visualizes the cardiovascular system at work in the form of a kinetic sculpture, and draws a relation between heartbeat and mechanized components. As the the functions of our organs become more “outsourced” to implantable devices and electricity, we find more and more connection between the organic and the artificial. The valve is a perfect example of biomimicry.

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    in this sculpture, liquid is passed down through a funnel and rests at the valve, waiting to read the participant’s heartbeat. Once the pulse is read, the valve is activated and the liquid is released into an awaiting bowl. The participant can choose to sit down and gaze at the tubing sculpture (from an unintended “religious” angle), where the liquid is expelled, or stand and gaze down at the progressively darkening bowl.

    Mimic from trytobegood on Vimeo.

     

  • JeannetteSubero 11:55 pm on December 20, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Nik Tesla – Final 

    Nik 🙂

    For the final project I decided to make an educational toy. Using a finger puppet/magnet of Nikola Tesla. I made an enclosure for the receiver part to simulate lightning, I ended up using 5 LEDs and the Knight Rider array in one direction to get the lightning effect, I also added sound that went up and down from 3 really low pitches at the same speed as the knight rider. For the transmitter part I used an enclosure that simulated Nikola Teslas’s Lab and the Tesla Tower (my initial idea was to use it as the actual antenna, but it turned out that by removing everything from the antenna pin I got better transmission).

    Nik Tesla Wireless Toy from Jeannette Subero on Vimeo.

    who took the class photo by the way?? can you upload it on the blog!! thanks.. happy holidays 🙂

     

  • Franci Castelli 11:33 pm on December 20, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Final Documentation – Overly Attached Monsters 

    “Overly Attached Monsters” is a pair of plush characters, tied to one another, in which I wanted to see embodied a heartbeat and a human-like reaction as empathy, affection and jealousy, to trigger some emotional reaction in the person interacting with them.

    The interaction with the toy starts with the user wearing the pulse sensor and getting a clear read of his/hers heartbeat. The two cute little monsters are there waiting for their person. If the person playing with them takes one by its hand, the monster will get excited feeling the loving heartbeat of  its person and will start shaking at the rhythm of his/her heartbeat. The second monster, being overly attached to his little friend will have  jealous reaction.

    For this project I decided to pair up the pulse sensor with the wireless modules and see how that could work with the creation of a character. At the beginning what i envisioned was something simpler and less interesting with only one character. Later the characters became two, and ironically the second would have a reaction to the first.

    The two reactions happen only when the first monster gets its hand held, as a force resistor triggers the communication between the transmitter and the receiver. Then the moster with his hand hold starts shaking thanks to a vibration motor and the second one will get jealous and light up when his friend is shaking.

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    video:

     

  • sussesj 10:28 pm on December 20, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Pcomp final – Visualizing Pulse 

    For my final using the pulse sensor I ended up very far from my initial idea, I spend a lot of time making the pulse sensor send variables wireless, and made it work. Then I discovered Iron filings, and decided to go for that, I’m not going to post the code that I used for that since it’s not different from the code that came with the pulse sensor only tweaked a bit.

    This project aimed to visualize the pulse using magnets, iron filings and a servo motor.
    I was inspired by the fragil iron filings being moved by a magnet. This was a way for me to work with the information from the pulse sensor, and fascination of working with iron filings.

    Please take a look at the video here:

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    You can find a link to my code for transmitter reciever here, since it worked fine, and that was the hardest part of the project, even though I didn’t use it.

    git for RX

    git for TX

     

  • lizbethc 8:05 pm on December 19, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Pulse Painter: Final Documentation 

    For the final project, I decided to make a little robot that paints to the user’s pulse rate. By attaching themselves to the sensor, they trigger the paint brush to move. Whilte it would have been nice to have a mechanical arm that could dabble more paint on the brush, I think that squeezing paint directly on the paper also really worked. Here are some images:

    IMG_4197 IMG_4199 IMG_4201 IMG_4202

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    And Finally, a little video:

     

    Pulse Painter from Elizabeth Clare on Vimeo.

     

  • jianxyi 1:03 am on December 18, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Seance Table 

    I created a furniture piece, a table, covered with cloth and with a mysterious obelisk object – reflecting the mystic element of the heartbeat and the life force of a person. The biosensor of the heartbeat is reflected in an object that takes on the life of the user, through their heartbeat. It references the seance, in communicating between living and dead, animate and inanimate, subject and object, ultimately blurring these boundaries…

     

  • jianxyi 1:00 am on December 18, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Simon Says 

    I made a small and compact version of the Simon Says game, that is reminiscent in style to children’s DIY self-made toys. The silver wrapping design makes the body of the game interface look like an imaginary spaceship. The contemporary art aesthetic of Thomas Hirschhorn was an influence:

    http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&authuser=0&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1247&bih=665&q=thomas+hirschhorn&oq=thomas+hirschhorn&gs_l=img.3…1359.4385.0.4703.19.10.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0…0.0…1ac.1.C6MPYgY1lA8#hl=en&tbo=d&authuser=0&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=thomas+hirschhorn+crystal+of+resistance&oq=thomas+hirschhorn+crystal+of+resistance&gs_l=img.3…24924.28753.0.28847.22.11.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0…0.0…1c.1.81cWd9sEBL0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE&fp=f227c3543a702c3d&bpcl=40096503&biw=1247&bih=665

     

  • YiNing 4:41 am on December 13, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Finally – You Are What You Eat 

    Some people say “You are what you eat”. I agree with this quote. Somewhere in our body may have the thing that we obtained from the food we ate.

    I am always grateful for those animals (or even vegetables) with which sacrificed their lives to feed us. So we survive. Without those food we may die out of hunger and have no heart beats.

    I decided to simulate our pulse and apply it to a piece of meat.
    I use two arduinos because I want to show the “distance”  between the human and the food. One is for transmitting the pulse signal, another is for receiving the signal and do the commands. One the receiving side, I put one red LED, one vibration motor, one battery and some antennas. As the result the food part can be a stand alone object.

    This is the receiving bag:
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    and then I bought some steaks (I don’t normally buy meat, but because of this project…):
    prep01

    I wrapped the meat around the bag and sew the edges:
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    This is the video of how it works:

     

  • lizbethc 3:47 pm on December 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    pulse painter: prototype 

     

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    These are some images of my rough prototype for using a pulse sensor to trigger a paintbrush. On the left is a picture of a brush hanging from a box, being vibrated by the pulse sensor. On the right is a painting created with two different heartbeats.

     

  • Yury Gitman 6:33 pm on December 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Yury at Parsons Wednesday not Tuesday, 6-8:30pm, please RSVP 

    Hi All,
    I’m letting you know that I’ll be coming to Parsons Wednesday 6pm-8:30pm to help people on their projects.
    Please RSVP with one line of what you want help on.  I’ll put your name on a list and we’ll meet in order.  This will be a better use of time.
    I’m sorry I can not come today, Tuesday, b/c I have a time conflict setup weeks ago (I did not realize when we discussed this time in class on Friday).
    Hope you are making good progress on your projects,
    Yury

     

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