Final Project: Team Meetup
Our team also met up for the first time yesterday to discuss ideas for the final project. Each person was to bring an idea to the meeting (though it didn’t necessarily have to be fully developed).
When we presented our revamped choker last week, Greg mentioned using heat as a variable that Arduino could read. His suggestion was to have the user wear the choker and jog around while a new sensor (thermosensor? is this costly…?) detected body heat. Another idea that is similar to this is to use a touch/pressure sensor to detect a faster heartbeat.
I really liked the idea of using body heat for an Arduino reading. It’s overlooked in the creation of ‘embodied computing’ sensors (at least, for our class, although this may have been due to inability to get a thermosensor and/or awareness of it) most likely because people are focused on the flexing and movement of typically-used joints (the hand, for example, or the foot). I started researching “embodiment” and “thermodynamics” and somehow stumbled across “negentropy”, something a “a living system exports entropy in order to maintain its own entropy at a low level” (Wikipedia). I thought we could work slightly off this model (here is where the idea breaks down) and have a thermosensor detect the wearer’s body temperature and project more or less heat onto their skin. The problem is, while it’s possible to read a person’s temperature, it’s rather hard to project a higher or lower temperature onto their body without using a fan or heater and, also, to incorporate the ‘embodiment’ theme covered throughout the course.
In the end, we decided to go along with Oliver’s idea: the “Ghost Baby”, a being that is everywhere at once (not capable of being seen) but with which the user can interact with. Reaching out to it can trigger a movie clip/sound effect (this has not been decided upon yet) and different actions will affect its mood.
When we presented our revamped choker last week, Greg mentioned using heat as a variable that Arduino could read. His suggestion was to have the user wear the choker and jog around while a new sensor (thermosensor? is this costly…?) detected body heat. Another idea that is similar to this is to use a touch/pressure sensor to detect a faster heartbeat.
I really liked the idea of using body heat for an Arduino reading. It’s overlooked in the creation of ‘embodied computing’ sensors (at least, for our class, although this may have been due to inability to get a thermosensor and/or awareness of it) most likely because people are focused on the flexing and movement of typically-used joints (the hand, for example, or the foot). I started researching “embodiment” and “thermodynamics” and somehow stumbled across “negentropy”, something a “a living system exports entropy in order to maintain its own entropy at a low level” (Wikipedia). I thought we could work slightly off this model (here is where the idea breaks down) and have a thermosensor detect the wearer’s body temperature and project more or less heat onto their skin. The problem is, while it’s possible to read a person’s temperature, it’s rather hard to project a higher or lower temperature onto their body without using a fan or heater and, also, to incorporate the ‘embodiment’ theme covered throughout the course.
In the end, we decided to go along with Oliver’s idea: the “Ghost Baby”, a being that is everywhere at once (not capable of being seen) but with which the user can interact with. Reaching out to it can trigger a movie clip/sound effect (this has not been decided upon yet) and different actions will affect its mood.
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