Physical interaction design DH2400

(Victor Valle, Vincent Boumard, Hao Pei Chu & James Lomas)

This Myo Bracelet comes from Thalmic Labs. They have invented it in 2012 and they tested with some developers. They are building more and more units to start selling it in early 2014.

MYO is a gesture-based control device that connects the real and the digital world. The bracelet measures the electrical activity of the muscles, it can sense rotations and movements in the hand.

This device brings the possibility to control remote devices with natural gestures of your arm and hand.

We think it is quite cool and the window of applications for it can be really wide: home issues, industry controllers, gamers...

(Lidija Murselovic & Henrik Bygdeman)

This is a commercial project done by kollision for launching a new smart car. Depending on how the people around the car walk and stand, the vehicle's route changes. Read more about it here

(Lidija Murselovic & Henrik Bygdeman)

This is a project that was made in Germany 2012, to celebrate Luminale, which is an international Festival of Lighting Culture.
What they did was that they displayed light on a building, which in fact was interactive. With the help from your smartphone you could point it in the direction you want to move the light on the building. Depending on the direction you move your phone the light will also move and it will look like as you are "moving" the light.
It's fascinating how they can use a normal building wall and people walking by to create something out of the ordinary. It is not something that is used for need, but to create a city with interesting aspects and just for fun.
Read more about it here
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Description and video can be found at: http://www.gizmag.com/nymi-identity-bracelet/28922/

http://vimeo.com/50854686

"An environment for creative collaboration is significant for enhancing human communication and expressive activities. We introduce Second Surface, a novel multi-user Augmented reality system that fosters a real-time interaction for user-generated contents on top of the physical environment. This interaction takes place in the physical surroundings of everyday objects such as trees or houses. Our system allows users to place three dimensional drawings, texts, and photos relative to such objects and share this expression with any other person who uses the same software at the same spot. Second Surface explores a vision that integrates collaborative virtual spaces into the physical space. Our system can provide an alternate reality that generates a playful and natural interaction in an everyday setup."-

Shunichi Kasahara, Valentin Heun, Austin S. Lee and Hiroshi Ishii / 2012

http://www.instructables.com/id/turn-signal-biking-jacket/

To allow future students of this course to easily understand the inner working mechanisms and reuse parts of our prototype, the Chameleon chair manual has been created. It consist overview of technology used for this project and also user-friendly guide how to connect everything together. Example Arduino code for communication with the color sensor is also included.
As an additional part there is also one chapter dealing with heat and cooling in electronic devices.

Chameleon chair manual.pdf