SystemSoftware Used:- Processing for programming, Isadora for images and videos, Max/MSP for sound, and Maya for 3D images Sensors and Interaction- Audio-visual system output acts as creative catalyst for improvised movement performance. - The system affords many possibilities for exploring metaphors linking physical movement and "movement through the mind". - We have identified walker-based motion sensing as a poetic, intuitive interaction method. (Kinect-based direct interaction with FNN has also been prototyped) Fictional Neural network (FNN):- This production is constructed through a Fictional Neural Network (FNN) that represent's Mabel's mind. - Connections are bi-directional - Connection weights are assigned for each link & direction - Spreading Activation: Random walk is influenced by recently activated concepts Network Simulation of Reminiscence and Dementia- Semantic web + episodic/perceptual nodes Principles: Spreading activation, priming, associative memory, attention Weighted random walk, biased by the 'landscape' of recent activation Investigating simple strategies for auto-weighting links Initial simulation of dementia consists of gradually deleting nodes from the network Sound System (Max/MSP)- Three sections: First two sections are controlled manually (Music and Ambient Sounds). - The third one is contolled through Processing - each sound is associated with a word and a image. |