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Face Control

By Johnny Lü, on December 13th, 2011%

Faces, shocks, frisson, not quite functional, not quite fun. Mirror neurons, “active” empathy, translation of face to something

Resources:

FaceOSC – A nice OSC package for the open source FaceTracker

Osculator - Nice way to look at OSC commands and really helpful in debugging/figuring out what’s coming through

Processing - We love Dan Schiffman

OscP5 Library for Processing - Library for reading OSC commands . . . → Read More: Face Control

Continuous Flash Suppression – Alpha Channeling

By Johnny Lü, on November 22nd, 2011%

Here are the slides for continuous flash suppression

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AYmUXruf59e8ZGQ0OGNrejdfNTAybXF4a2RjOQ

The basic concept is when the left and right eye are given independent feeds, the mind naturally gravitates towards ocular dominance of the eye registering more activity. The evolutionary basis of this is that movement is a way to register changes in the environment and it is essential to . . . → Read More: Continuous Flash Suppression – Alpha Channeling

TMG – Second Round

By Johnny Lü, on November 8th, 2011%

This is an extension of a project from last year which was an electrical stimulation unit (TENS) placed on one person which corresponded to an electromyograph (EMG) on another. The person with the EMG electrodes contracts his/her muscle and that serves as an input and that translates into activation of the TENS unit which causes the other . . . → Read More: TMG – Second Round

Bailenson

By Johnny Lü, on November 1st, 2011%

A wonderful collection of interesting tidbits and really relevant to the kinds of stuff I’m interested in. The curious part is just how hard-wired is this in our brains–knowing these factoids like mimicking with a four second delay (was four seconds a sweet spot because that’s the usual threshold of someone who subconsciously mimics you and . . . → Read More: Bailenson

empathy

By Johnny Lü, on October 12th, 2011%

The chameleon effect is fun as you watch a gesture or posture wave pass through a group. I for some reason felt that I saw more of it on Japanese film crews, but I have no way to verify this. Also, I wonder what the current state of study is for those who are imitated the . . . → Read More: empathy

Vizzles

By Johnny Lü, on October 4th, 2011%

Nothing but pure debugging . . . → Read More: Vizzles

EMGeezers

By Johnny Lü, on September 27th, 2011%

I have two emg units made from last year, beautiful little things. I wanted to slap them on to my neck or shoulders to get a record of “tension” (tense shoulders, tense neck), but the units are a bit buggy so I scrapped them for a bit.

I moved on to some android programming (done in conjunction . . . → Read More: EMGeezers

Auditory Illusions, Performativity

By Johnny Lü, on September 13th, 2011%

As a long aside, just to add to the categories of sensory illusions, as we’ve discussed and seen many optical and haptic ones, another wonderful category is auditory

Here is a never-ending Infinite descent, the Shepard scale, which plays with a base pitch moving upward (then an infinite ascent) or downward while playing octaves below and above it. . . . → Read More: Auditory Illusions, Performativity

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