AWESOME CHAIR

Design ReThinking

Catherine — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:26:37 +0000

This is the chair thinking about how AWESOME you really are:

Chair waiting for someone to sit / Version 1:

Chair waiting for someone to sit / Version 2:

Design | Part II

rabiamalik — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:12:11 +0000

After the presentation in class last week we took the constructive critique along with our own brainstorming session, we decided to re-design the look of the chair and the screen. The chair needed more of a personality and cleaner look. Below are some of the designs we came up with and the one we choose as the final look for our screen.

Physical comp. part of the throne

Valeria — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:41:07 +0000

Potential looks for the AWESOME Screen

rabiamalik — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:24:52 +0000

Valeria, Catherine, and Rabia really appreciate any feedback YOU can provide as far as picking one of the following looks that best suits the AWESOME chair. Thank you in advance.

Content Listing & Plan of Attack

rabiamalik — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:03:33 +0000

Awesome Chair

Visuals: (the screen should be up and running by the end of the weekend)

Static Screen
Thinking Screen (building on the thinking screen, we can design simple short AE moves, or simple messages that say thinking
Awesome Screen (Final Outcome ) (using scraped data)
10 images/levels – for 10 categories displayed on screen.
- The frames will be static and the images will be searchable from a database

Chair:

Cardboard with arcade images
Structurally need to figure out how it will work
- Design around class chair because may just take one
Think about traveling chair – possibly a folding chair with cardboard cover on top so we can test the chair in a few different places.

Awesome Meter:

4 PURE AWESOME

3 UBER AWESOME

2 MAJORLY AWESOME

1 AWWWHHHHHESOME

0 AWESOME

-1 EEEHHHH AWESOME

-2 POODLE AWESOME

-3 FORMERLY KNOWN AS AWESOME

-4 DUDE WTF

Awesome Things: (images to cover the chair, we should have these images by this wekend)

Extreme Sports (snowboarding, skiing…)
great designs
space
explosions
motorcycles
race cars
mountain climbing
graffiti
subway art
international things

Physical Computing: Seat button or hand sensor?

Hand Sensor will work better with our project just because the subject can touch the sensor when ready instead of sitting on it

Things to purchase:

a pressure sensor button
might need a keyboard to take apart

Programs we will use:

Processing
Arduino (wireless)
After Effects
Flash

Point People and our major duties: Of course we’ll help each other…

Valeria- Physical Computing
Katherine-Processing/ possibly audio (audio for “how awesome are you?”, pure awesome, aweeessoommm…)
- search for positive “awesome” images (10 for level)
Rabia- Visual Design: chair, gage, screen (Design in After Effects or Flash)
- search for negative “awesome” images (10 for level)
- Researching for the biggest database of images for the levels as well as the look of the chair (possibly 3D images or objects on the chair to make it even AWESOMERrrr)

Rough Prototype | Searching for “Awesome” on Youtube

rabiamalik — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:37:15 +0000

I also considered taking our search for Awesome a step further and decided to search for awesome on Youtube.com

results for “Awesome”:-

Prototype: sketch

Valeria — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:09:47 +0000

Rough Prototype | Searching for “Awesome” Keywords / Phrases on Google

rabiamalik — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:47:21 +0000

In order to display images on our screen that would connect to the sensors on our chair, we decided to do image searches on Google using the word “awesome” by itself as well as with other key words and terms. We wanted to see the image output for all our inquiries so we could picture a scenario in our minds for user testing.

The results for our image search are essential for user interaction. The following are search key words we used as well as Google’s image search results:-

Keywords with “Awesome”:

Totally Awesome
Not Awesome
Very Awesome
Amazingly Awesome
Extremely Awesome
Truly Awesome
Surprisingly Awesome
Ahhhh Awesome
Retarded Awesome
Disgustingly Awesome
Retarded Awesome
Simply Awesome
Creepy Awesome
Crazy Awesome

We also searched for images using just the word “Awesome” on Google and wrote down the phrases that are tagged under the images to see if we can make meaning of any of them:-

Finally these are screen shots of Google’s image search results for words using awesome:-

Rough Prototype

Catherine — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:52:51 +0000

AWESOME!

precedent | The Table: Childhood

Catherine — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:21:41 +0000

The Table: Childhood
max dean (leads, 1949)
raffaello d’andrea (pordenone 1967)
is a professor at cornell university specializing in control of complex systems, he is also the manager and supervisor of the cornell robocup team…
featured at the 2001 Venice Biennale

“a fully autonomous robotic table selects a viewer to attempt a relationship with that person, the table will not interact with everyone who comes into the room; it will choose only one viewer. the artwork and not the viewer is in the position of choice. this focusses the attention of other viewers on one particular visitor, making the person the ‘object’ of attention.”

watch the table in action