2014-09-23

The easy way out

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Wearable technology in its most literal form. Possibly out of our budget range though.

From http://technabob.com/blog/2014/09/19/iphone-dress/:

The luxury fashion designer spared no expense when it came to the iPhone dress. The long black mesh dress was covered in nearly a dozen iPhones (although other reports mention that it was covered in 50!). The phones captured all angles of the event, where Tahari also presented the rest of his collection for next season.



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2014-09-09

The Sound of Touch

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http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/the-sound-of-touch/

This project was interesting for me because I have been involved in sound design and synthesis. Sound has been a very interesting subject for me because it can be mathematically manipulated and yet has an ability to induce deep emotional responses. Additionally, it was also related to the current theme of the project.

The Sound of Touch is an interactive physical interaction device which allows a recorded message to be modulated based on the undulations of a natural texture. A controller with a button for recording is present and the "wand" can then be traced onto a texture allowing the recorded sound to be modulated allowing interesting effects.

The "wand" contains a piezo-electric sensors measuring the vibrations induced by the textures, which is then used as an input signal for modulation of the recorded message. The message is first broken into separate pieces so that the pieces can be combined to synthesize a longer or shorter signal than the original recorded one. 

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FocalSpace

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FocalSpace from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo.

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/focalspace/

Computer vision and background segmentation has been an interest of mine for a while. Having worked on these algorithms over the summer. I thought this project was interesting since it combines background segmentation with an intuitive (and brilliant) way of localizing the speaker.

The background segmentation is being supplemented by a kinect which provides a depth map that allows the extraction of the foreground. Additionally, a microphone array is used to localise the speaker. The kinect depth map along with the speaker localisation allows deriving a mask for the image to be blurred.

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2014-09-05

Familiar physical interaction

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Talk about affordance, visibility ...

And a recent one on the same idea (parody on Apple promoting the iPad)


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Tile

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I keep getting this commercial when browsing the net. I wonder how easy it is to hack into it and make nice physical apps.

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Group 5: Happiness Blanket

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The Happiness Blanket is a revolutionary device that visually shows the wellbeing of a passenger in real time by changing colour to reflect their mood while on-board. One of the innovative aspects of the Happiness Blanket is the mode of interaction which measures brain waves to understand the user mood and feelings. It could also be categorized as a wearable and made of natural materials. As the blanket change color depending on the mood of the user it is interesting to reflect on what color represent what feeling and how users could be affected by these colors.

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Group 5: Smart Ring

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Nod is a gesture control ring. The ring concept is inline with the course theme since it is wearable and can be made by natural material (metal). It proves that gesture control can be really accurate and feasible even in a small form factor. In a way it blends in and its intractability is not obvious.

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