Weekly Report- Group 1

This week was a great accomplishment with the first full test of our interactive system. Our goal for this week was to complete a first run through of installing the system in the site with its full functionality. Having soldered all the necessary wires and components together last week and the essential code for the…

Team D.K.T. Week 11 Blog Update

Okay, so, this week was construction week. With our design mostly finalised and given the thumbs-up by the tutors and lecturer, we set-out to build the hardware. The first thing we did was… shopping! To be honest, our installation, while elaborate, is not overly complicated; however, putting it together requires a lot of hardware, namely:…

Team 1 Weekly Report: Implementation

This week we are focused on sample recording and technical prototyping. We combined FSR pressing with a threshold, USB connections, and playing a random video for three sensors. The resulting prototype is shown in the video. This week we have recorded our first batch of crowdsourced singing videos for the installation from the MIDEA students…

Team 1 Weekly Report: Convergence

After team meeting with evaluation of technical methods, we refined the original idea of musical hallway. After the ideation session, we discussed the persona-based walkthroughs designed by team members as homework, and also consulted with the tutors. While still utilizing the existing patterns of using piano keys, the new idea is a more playful installation…

Team 1 Tech Research

For this week, we focused on analysing possible implementation of our “Musical Hallway” idea. Equipment needed Laptop for running Processing applet Sound source (portable speaker or several speakers) LED strips for visual output Pressure sensors (by the number of musical notes) Motion/pressure detection We are planning to utilize Force Sensitive Resistors to provide analog input,…

Concept Selection- Team 1 Weekly Report

This week, our team’s main objective was to decide on our final concept. Concept Decision After an ideation session last week that resulted in three very different ideas to work with, each team member worked on developing the concept details and ideating about the concept implementation. We had a group meeting this week to share…

Team 1 Weekly Report 3: A1 almost done!

The individual parts of A1 report (Kali — background research, Daria — user research, Teddy — site research) were finished this week. Using Google Slides, we collaborated on it in real-time. We also used Slack for messaging each other. Team meeting 29 Aug: writing session At the team meeting on Aug 29th we shared and…