DMDN 312 INTERACTION DESIGN

Response to readings.

Folded Space: How Computer Games Rework Our Ideas of the Maze.

This article interested me because of its comparison of old fashioned hedge mazes to Pac-man. this has also got me thinking of how I would go about “restricting movement, yet making the space appear larger” for this assignment and future video game assignments.

Technologies of Location: Affect of Place in Artistic Uses of Mobile and Social Networks

In this article i realised how under utilised our urban environment and what potential they have. An example of this is when Tapio Mäkelä talks about the GPS Drawing Project that is a amazing idea. Another thing that struck me is making a GPS game is not just about the game-play and scenario it s also a social experience.

Mapping and Psychogeography

I found this aricle spoke very clearly that maping and navigation were just as important as game-play and scenario. also i found that the way that not many people used the media function on the phones.

Sep 27, 2008 | DMDN 312 INTERACTION DESIGN

Documentation done.

Here is the documentation for project 02.

Presentation:

http://tomrevill.net/files/documentationdmdn312.pdf

Video:

Documentation Project 02 – Echos from Tom Revill on Vimeo.

Enjoy.

Sep 12, 2008 | DMDN 312 INTERACTION DESIGN

Testing.

I just tested my patch in the stairwell. I have one problem the speakers have don’t have a high enough frequency this means that you cant here the full effect of the sound.

I am going to see what i can do about this today and tomorrow and do the documentation on Friday hopefully.

Aug 27, 2008 | DMDN 312 INTERACTION DESIGN

Statement and Progress.

Statement

What i wanted to do is to have a auditory trace on the people walking through a stair case. the way i wanted to do this is by having a microphone playback an artificial echo of the sound with in a stairwell. this would transform a stair well in to interactive experience. This would encourage people to the stairs and not the elevator.

Progress

Now i have stated making my patch I have got to the point where i have got a echo working but the echo last only for couple of seconds before the echo sound strange. This is kind of frustrating when i want it to last at least a minute.

Also the patch looks a too simple because of this i am in the process of thinking about how i could expand on this idea of auditory trace.

Heres the ideas i have had so far on expatiation of this idea.

Have two microphones on 2 stairwells But the microphones would not be analyzing the other stairwell. So the person would here someone else using the other stair well.
Having the stair well trigger other prerecorded steps on other staiwells.

For the rest of the weekend i will analyze the stairwell and work on the patch.

Aug 23, 2008 | DMDN 312 INTERACTION DESIGN