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, we started to test if you could have different states that kicked in at different thresholds.
Before continuing on this project, we had coaching with Clint, which changed our view of how we could represent this angry mood, where the behavior of the light was more dynamic and responsive.
After the coaching, we felt a bit lost again and therefore decided that we needed to step back and figure out what we are doing. This leads to perhaps the most important insight of the week. We have been talking about wanting to create a light that has a life, and that will react to interactions and see the interactions as a disturbance and get angry. But taking a step back and trying to map out what we wanted to express and connect it to examples in the real world made us realize that what we wanted to do was create a lamp that reacts to interaction with irritation.
That leads us to brainstorm around how dose irritation takes an expression. Based on our own experiences and from situations we have experienced, we created a first plan for how we wanted the LED to react. Drawing from our own experiences as a starting point, we now need to test if the LED can express this. Can we create the feeling of the LED being irritated, or would someone who has never seen it or heard about it interpret it differently?
We will now try to create a light behavior with different states depending on the level of irritation.