I am not super happy with how far we got when it comes to kinaesthetic interaction, but I see it more as the first testing of it. Now I can start to see how you can work with bodily movements when creating a kinaesthetic interaction. And I think that the reason we didn’t achieve as …
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The last sketches
Perhaps I had too high thoughts of what we are able to do because this week the work hasn’t turned out the way I wished. A lot of time has gone to make it more of a socially kinetic interaction, and I think we have made progress. Now both person controllers bother the volume and …
What have we created?
Moving over to working with multiple bodies hasn’t been easy since we have needed to work over Zoom for a couple of days. We can’t try out movements together. We can discuss them, and then we need to get another person to try out the movement with me to see if it works. It is …
Theremin
To start working with multiple bodies, we began to test out the framework, and when we had gained some understanding, we started working on our new sketch. We want to continue to work with the control of sound, but what if we together could play something with our combined movements so we also could bring …
Kinaesthetic interaction: Sociality
After a first week of reading up on literature and testing how the framework works and making some sketches, we felt that we needed to get some more input from Jens during the coaching since we didn’t really feel any direction for what we were doing. We had discussed what we were interested in and …
Volume control
In our body storming, we had found out that the feeling of control will change quite easily with small changes. We wanted to continue with control and decided to test if we could get a well-established movement to work. Holding your hands over your ears is a movement we have done since we were small …
Literature seminar
I really like the way Jens went through the texts because I am always a bit unsure if I have been able to unpack and understand the papers. I don’t trust myself in this. Therefore it is nice to get the more significant parts described again and connect them to what we are doing because …
Kinaesthetic experience?
Due to sickness, we have been forced to work over zoom, which isn’t the best when working with bodily movements, but we have tried our best. We decided that the first kind of movement that we wanted to explore was the use of gross movements since much of the interactions used today are small hand …
Coaching
I feel that I have a better understanding of the process now when we are working in module 3. I have learned from the two previous modules that the first week goes by so quickly and that it is important to get started. In this module, we have struggled with knowing what we should focus …
Let’s test
After getting both the introduction to the topic and the material, it was time to test. I am still unsure how we should think about the kinaesthetic experience, but sometimes I think it is just best to get started. We will not gain anything from not trying. So to get a better understanding of the …
Module 3
Kinesthetic experience and machine learning New topic and new material, and I think both are interesting. I haven’t worked with machine learning before. I just read about it during my AI summer course and I am looking forward to getting some experience of it. I think it is interesting the concept of learning and what …
End of module 2
Preparing and presenting our process during module 2 helped me to see our process in a new light both the parts that we have done well but also the parts that where we got lost or continued working in the wrong direction. Our strength during this project has definitely been our teamwork. We found a …
5/10
During the coaching with Clint, we got the advice to continue working with control over the aspects we already had in the sketch, such as the color, speed, how and when it moves in a more nuanced way. I think this was a great help since we were thinking of adding more features that we …
4/10
This week we want to focus on how we can control the circle with sound but still let the circle be affected by the sound, so it gets an expression by itself. Our first idea was to continue working with the mouse movement and make the mouse more or less responsive, but after some research, …
1/10
It feels like we have had a great workflow today. We didn’t think that the ball sketch worked and decided that we would start fresh with a new sketch instead of continuing on it. I believe that this approach to test and see what works or doesn’t work and then quickly moving on instead of …
30/9
We continued with the ball sketch, and we made it work, but we didn’t get the nuanced control we wanted. It is still relatively harder to control it, and one problem we have with it is that it seems to be a problem with the responsiveness of the input. Sometimes it doesn’t respond to the …
28/9
Today we have started on the nuanced control. We made one sketch where we enlarge a circle by blowing (like a balloon) and when you stop blowing, the balloon reduces in size. Sketch 1 – Balloon With the first sketch, we wanted to control the input for the balloon, so it only increases when blowing. …
27/9
Today we have continued exploring different materials to see if we could find material-specific frequencies. We tested the different sounds that corrugated cardboard, styrofoam, paper, and plywood make when rubbed against a concrete surface and rubbed with the same material. We tried to see if there was any difference in the frequency. After the material …
24/9
End of week 1 For this week, we have focused on getting an understanding of the code and for the module. We have made two sketches. The first one is the Rotator. With this sketch, we wanted to control an object based on volume. The object moves at different speeds depending on the volume, and …
M2 21/9
The introduction that we had yesterday helped to get a better understanding of the module. The biggest hurdle is to understand the code examples provided by Clint. I feel that the introduction gave me a grasp of how it works, but I need to take some time to understand it. Today we started the day …
Show and tell M1
The first show and tell were fun. It is interesting to see how different everyone’s projects were and also learn from their projects. Some groups had worked with the material more, and that is something that I wish we had done more, but we didn’t have the time for it. So that is something that …
16/9
After a struggle with the code, we now feel that we have a representation of being irritated. The LED now has a light behavior that is affected by the surrounding light conditions. When the sounding get darker, the LED will be brighter and the duration between the waves will be shorter. So when you shade …
13/9
Not much new for today. It has been a struggle to create a code that could change the light behavior when interacting. But now have new code, and we can use it to build the different states we want. It acts in the same way as the code we had at the end of last …
Week 2
We managed to create a code that could add a mood to the light, and that also added more mood depending on from which distance you provoked it. Since we wanted different reactions depending on what kind of interaction you were doing in our case how much light you were taking away from the lamp, …
9/9
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 …
Finding your way with light
Perhaps we have found a direction now that will lead us to something interesting. We have had a real struggle to get some feeling for what we are doing. After setting up the LED with a force sensor as an input, we received different values instead of an on and off state. Based on the …
Input sensors
Today we have worked with inputs and trying to see how they can be used. The first example was to manage to connect a button to the LED to turn it on and off. You would think that it was done in 5 minutes, but how long it takes to create it is painful. But …
Week 1
After the lecture Interaction Astetichs with Clint, I understood the paper Exploring Relationships Between Interaction Attributes and Experience by Lenz et al. (2013). I had not made the connection between Interaction attributes and the experience and how it should be interpreted. Doing the group exercise helped even though it was when presenting I realized that …
Interaction-Driven Design: A New Approach for Interactive Product Development
In this paper by Maeng et al. (2012), they explore how interaction-driven design can affect the design process of interaction compared to user-driven design and Technology-driven design. Different approaches create different starting points for the design activity. In user-driven product development, the starting point is based on users’ needs and solving their problems. In …
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Unlocking the Expressivity of Point Lights
In the paper Unlocking the Expressivity of Point Lights by Harrison, Chris, et al. (2012), the authors present a design process where they start by looking at what information commonly is communicated through LEDs and how it is done. They found that the LED:s are used to display different information, but there is not much …
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Exploring LED pattern
Today we have used Roel’s example code to be able to get started with creating different light patterns. We managed to test out some of the light patterns in the Point lights paper, and I think it was a good start. The biggest challenge is translating what we have learned in the programming course using …
Interactivity – introduction
I am excited about the new course, and I feel like it is a whole new approach to the design process. I am still confused about what we are supposed to do, but hopefully, I will better understand that when this first week is over. I am glad that we are working in pairs. It …