Starting the morning by testing our idea about searching for a position by adding more light and let the LED indicate when you are at the correct position by increasing the brightness.
It showed that it worked, but after showing and discussing with Roel, we decided to, instead of adding light, perhaps we should work with how the body can affect the light by creating more darkness.
Our initial idea with the box was to create a setting that would be consistent regardless of how the light conditions in the room are. But after testing it, we felt that needing a flashlight interrupted the interaction. This setup also made the LED an indicator instead of a part of the interaction.
This left us a little unsure about how to proceed and continue iterate on the work we had done. Therefore we feel a need to discuss our idea and what we were doing with Jens. After getting some coaching, we wanted to keep the feeling from interacting by increasing or decreasing the surrounding light with your body. But we wanted to give the LED a feeling of independence and, in that sense, give it a personality. And that the interaction with it could be more of a provocation or interference with it.
We want the light to have some mood and that the interaction can affect the mood and the response. Like an animal being provoked, it can defend itself by attacking, playing dead, or running away. We wanted to test if this relationship between the interaction and the LED could create this feeling. Our next step is to create some code that can measure the mood of the light.
Today was the first day that I felt that I had a sense of what we were doing. But still, I find it hard to understand what I am supposed to pick up from this module. I only get confused when we get feedback, like is it an interesting interaction. I have no idea about what makes an interaction interesting or not. But perhaps it is about trusting the process and keep trying. I think that I am still to lock in what it should be instead of what is the possibility and the potential of the LED in the interaction.