For your final project you are expected to choose between Wikimedia Commons
contribution (this is mostly in from of a image, graphic, illustration and or diagram) or an
Arduino mini project. Your project must reflect connection between your essay question
and practice. The task is to create a project that is based on one of the following themes:
1. Free type (ThePost StructuralistAuthor) ‐
2. Data Gathering & Display (Digital Nature)
3. Roleplaying (Narrative & Games)
4. Space and sense (Sensory engagement and the Haptic)
In this brief you are asked to develop a con cept which is based on the theme of your
essay and make a design prototype. The project can be produced but is not limited to
digital media (hence Wikimedia Commons option). You will document research and
development of the project on your hotglue website and submit the project outcome to
the Undergraduate (Registry) office on 7
thJanuary 2015.
For the project, we had to choose 1 out 4 of the questions. I chose question 4 which is the Space and Sense (Sensory engagement and the Haptic)
I chose this topic because this really interest me. Interaction with our surrounding is very exciting, it's the future slowly evolving and it's really interesting to see it.
I decided to create an Arduino project for this. I think the Arduino is the appropriate approach to illustrate what I'm trying to say on my essay
Here are some of my inspiration for this project:
IDEAS
For the project, we had to choose 1 out 4 of the questions. I chose question 4 which is the Space and Sense (Sensory engagement and the Haptic)
I chose this topic because this really interest me. Interaction with our surrounding is very exciting, it's the future slowly evolving and it's really interesting to see it.
I decided to create an Arduino project for this. I think the Arduino is the appropriate approach to illustrate what I'm trying to say on my essay
Seeing all the example made me realise how powerful this tool is. The things you can do with it is limitless. My ambitions are high with this project. However, my knowledge on Arduino is limited.
This is my initial idea. I want to use Arduino to turn on a light bulb. With this project it will show the technology that we have today. It will illustrate that our touch, our interaction with our surrounding causes a response. Several years ago, things as simple as this wouldn't have been possible.
I changed my idea into something more feasible. I used everything that is available to me. I purchased a starter kit of Arduino and I bought another Arduino board for the other project. It had everything I needed. I decided to do 2 types of project but it will show the same message and it will link with my essay.
DOCUMENTATION
These are some of the pictures showing my attempts and my assembly of the project.
FINAL PROJECT
In the video provided at the bottom, you will see my finished Arduino project. I simply filmed the projects I've done. I made sure that all the camera shots can show the project perfectly.
On my essay I mention the future of interaction. From the website called The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/29/7450701/the-big-future-what-does-the-future-of-interaction-look-like) Sean O’Kane from The Verge talks about the future of interaction. He questions what will be the next realm of interaction. He noted that touch has dominated the interaction world. Almost every gadget today with a screen are touch. But things always change. “In the future, it could be possible to use implants or nano-technology to let us feel things that aren't there. While a digital display makes it look like a button is hovering in the air in front of you, the next breakthrough would let you feel like you were pressing it, providing haptic feedback for a gesture control system. We're still a long way for making that system work, but a lot of people are trying.”(O’Kane, 2014)
Project 1/2
When you press the button, 3 LED light will light up with a rhythm. The code tells the Arduino that whenever someone presses the button, the LED lights will be activated. On my essay Dan Saffer, a senior interaction designer at Adaptive Path who mentioned at his interview with Bloomberg Bussinessweek Innovation and Design that “Interaction design is about behavior, how things work. I push a button on my mobile phone and something happens. Or I enter a fast food restaurant, walk up to the counter, and something happens. Defining what happens when a person uses a product or service is what interaction designers do." He was basically explaining that interaction design isn't the hi-tech interfaces we see on films. It is simply interaction with anything and something happens. This applies to the project I've done. When you press a button, something happens. In this case when you press the button the LED light, lights up.
Project 2/2
This project needs a real human interaction. You have to touch the foil area then touch the light bulb to activate the light. A person needs to touch the foil area or the light bulb or else it wouldn't be activated. The code and the Arduino only recognise human touch. “I believe we will look back on 2010 as the year we expanded beyond the mouse and keyboard and started incorporating more natural forms of interaction such as touch, speech, gestures, handwriting, and vision--what computer scientists call the "NUI" or natural user interface.” Interacting with our gadgets has changed. Developers have tried their best to create a ‘natural’ interaction with our devices. It became a lot more than just pressing buttons. Imitations of how we interact with our surroundings became the source of this new user interface. Natural interaction will soon dominated the world of interface.
I wanted both of the project to show the past and future of interaction.