Final Project Ideas-Working with Allistar
I met up with Rosie over the weekend, and we both decided that we need some time off from the Mouth Piano. So I was in the market for a Networked Objects final project...and I ran into Allistar (who also was rethinking his initial final project). We had worked together earlier in the year, on the Thermometer Project, and I knew that we would come up with something pretty great. So, we decided to team up and do our final project together.
The first thing we did to brainstorm was compile a list of words that were of interest to us. We had:
Laughing, Wearable, Sound, Video, Touch
Our initial area of interest was Laughing. And we started to formulate an idea that we call The Laugh Box. The Laugh Box would be a box with an LCD screen inside, and wireless video. The screen would display live video that is capturing from the another Laugh Box, and vice versa. In summary, we wanted people to interaction and laugh from different rooms. But our big question was: What makes people laugh? So on Wednesday night we set out on a field study, and started to ask strangers, Tisch students and ITP students what makes them laugh.
*Footage to follow soon*