2010년 12월 14일 화요일

IAT320 - Body interface ::

Thank you, Greg and Jinsil for your instruction to our achievement throughout the course

Have a great Christmas ~~! :D

IAT320 - Body interface :: Final Project >> Documentation

We have finished our documentation for the final project

presentation slides
http://www.sfu.ca/~jya9/iat320/IAT320_Final.pdf

final paper
http://www.sfu.ca/~jya9/iat320/320%20research%20document.pdf

our documentation video has big size to be uploaded with this blog, but we included the video in the dvd submission.

This is overview of our interface and projection

Animation: sleeping when bear is lying down



Our tester, Amy :)

IAT320 - Body interface :: Final Project >> Creating textile touch sensor

Conductive foam + fabric to create textile touch sensor



This is how we sewed our touch sensor inside the bear (paw)


overview of the bear with arduino board and accelerometer 

2010년 12월 13일 월요일

IAT320 - Body interface :: Final Project >> Idea Brainstorming & Plan

Final Project :: Responsive Bear
Team Member :: Christine Sun, Tony Yang, Rosanna Stevens, Andy Yoo


Idea ::
        During our first week of the final project working session, we brainstormed several ideas for the project; wishing wall, alchemist's set, and friendly bear, and we decided to explore friendly bear in a hope of increasing children's awareness of species endangerment. Aim of our project was to create tangible interface with panda dolls to accomplish our goal. As children play with the toy bear, (in other words, as they interact with the bear, animation of relevant behaviour of bear would projected on the wall to create more real-like environmental images to children). We would have touch sensors on each hand (paw), accelerometer, and switch on mouth with an object that would complete the circuit (with bamboo like object for eating interaction). 







Plan ::
        1st Week
           - Brainstorming ideas
           - Research for right sensors, and brief animation discussion
           - Discussion of interactions


        2nd Week
           - Start on animation
           - Schematics for soft circuits 
           - Start on paper / documentation video script


        3rd Week 
           - Finishing each task and putting in together
           - User study/testing
           - Assembling videos


        4th Week
           - Presentation 
           - DVD


Team Role ::
        Christine Sun - Main animator / presentation slides
        Tony Yang - Main programmer 
        Rosanna Stevens - Assistant animator / documentation
        Andy Yoo - Electronics / video


Research ::
    
Concept:
        Our research focuses  primarily on interactive projects dedicated towards increasing wildlife conservation. Karolina Sobecka’s Wildlife does just that, through projecting wild animals onto city buildings from cars.  The animals run at a speed which matches the cars.  The Wildlife Foundation also did a relevant exhibit this year which involves toy pandas that react to human movement.



Technical:
        Our technical research focused on different typess of sensors; touch sensors and accelerometer. For touch sensor, we decided to create our own soft circuit sensor on each hand for interaction, and accelerometer was also installed inside of the bear to control behaviour of the bear during interaction. Also, tony started to working on coding files with both arduino and processing, using libraries that exist within the software.

resources
http://www.sfu.ca/~jya9/iat320/

accelerometer testing image