Mood Enhancement/ Colour Psychology/ Colour Therapy

Further research by all group member into synesthesia, mood enhancement/alteration, colour psychology and colour therapy. Read up on origins of physical interfaces.

Sile - research into digital abstract art. Some interesting sites and food for though:

Digital Abstract Art
http://www.withdigitaleyes.com/pgs/abstract.htm especially http://www.withdigitaleyes.com/pgs/ab/chakra.htm in terms of mood representation.
http://www.contemporaryfurniture.com/Catalog/Categories/Categories_40_All.asp (good for inspiration on how to create abstract environments)
http://www.digitalabstract.com/ (also has some inspiring poetry and word plays)
Actual Physical Enviroment
Also thought more about how we can use light to enhance the enviroment i.e. position lights so multiple shadows are cast possible creating a feeling of not being alone? see http://gadgetshow.five.tv/features/s4e9_interfacedevices03_400.jpg

Immersive Enviroments
- corner projection
- http://www.vis.uky.edu/assets/Images/Research_Images/immersive.jpg not too sure how this works but could just be projection onto perspex?
- fish eye projection and more, great examples of immersive enviroments!
-dome projection - http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/domemirror/

Kieran - http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/portfolio/performativeecologies.html Installation which analyses to the viewer's reactions and adjusts itself accordingly.

Irish Museum of Modern Art - Field Trip

  


Went to IMMA for some inspiration. Not much to see interactive wise, maybe a niche in the market?

Had a 2 hour meeting in library: went over a few alternative ideas which always resulted in the group referring back to the topic of
'mood reflection/enhancer' with in a room.

Showed the group a video to see what we could achieve aesthetically:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hWGUnrIiOoI

'Moods'

Phil: Found this website linking all of Todd Winkler's publications:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/sites/winkler//papers/index.html
Had one hour brainstorm. One thing that came out of it was the word Synesthesia and its relationship to 'Moods'.

Another New Group Member!

Philip Lam joins our group due to a shared interest in developing a synaesthesia-based art installation and Max/MSP.

Mini Project Presentation

We presented our minor project to the class. We got cut off before we were finished but made our point successfully and clearly.
We submitted the exec document, which was written up by Síle and a short 7-minute movie.

See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNoikl1wn6M

Opera Singer Visuals

Síle has completed the video for the fat opera singing lady. -Thumbs Up!
The Curtains were also completed.

Making a theremin with Arduino:
http://www.cornersound.com/index.php/2007/05/07/making-a-theremin-with-arduino/

In production of Minor project all week.

Opera Singer

Continuation from yesterday re: tutorials & fine tuning etc
Sile created some test models for opera singer in C4D & Flash
Decided on Comedic "South Park" style 2D video -- to be animated and completed for test run on Monday
(Opera singer performing scale, controlled by sensor)

Mini Project Finalized

Continue with tutorials
Finalized idea for mini-project based on results up to now, and potential for further development
Sile began creating draft videos for potential use in mini project
Kieran & Stephen focused on fine tuning sensors responses and potentiometers

Tutorials & Max Research

Group meeting in College
Got multiple potentiometers working in Max
We all worked on tutorials
Tutorials - controlled things with Video
Read Max Fundamentals Documents

Reading Week

Group meeting in college.

Temperature Sensor

Stephen:
Experimented with the Thermistor (temperature monitor).

Used: The "smoothing" tutorial on arduino.cc to read values into the serial monitor of Arduino software.
Wired it up using the LDR schematic I linked to on the 30th of October.

Experience: not very sensitive to general room temperature, but very sensitive to high temperatures, i.e. fire.
My reasoning:
These are designed for use within systems that get VERY VERY hot, e.g inside a computer. When a certain temp is reached, it shuts down.

A digital temp monitor would probably be much better for our application, like this one on sparkfun.com. http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=245

The Dome Environment

Group met up to progress exisiting ideas. Finalised on a interactive installation housed within a dome environment. Discussed visability issues regarding camera angles etc.

Arduino communicates with Max

Stephen:
Got Arduino to communicate Analog values into Max/MSP.
Can use values from sensors to control audio, video, effects etc.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVokcAjhbk8