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THE ASSIGNMENT

Choose one of your senses, appendages or behaviors and augment or frustrate it technologically.

At first I was thinking about stressing my hand by holding something in it all day, something that would also record the experience. But then I decided to use an accelerometer, encased in a waterproof casing, which i had used last semester for a different experiment.

This is what the sensor looks like.

This is what I encased into and wore it from 10.30 am til 11.20 pm.

THE IDEA

I wanted to map out my hand movements to see if i could find patterns, repeated gestures. I wanted to see if i could recognize some small actions thanks to the visualization of the data.

Here is he over all graph, on the bottom you can find the time, on the left the values ranging from -3g to +3g:

Graph1

Here are the main actions of my day in the attempt of recognizing a pattern:

Graph2 with activities

Here is a different view of the same chart:

Graph3 with dots

Here are all the samples taken during the 13 hours, with a sampling rate of a sample every 3 seconds.

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