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March 08, 2006
Space Annotation & Smart Home, Midterm Project 03.02.06
Tristan's friend from Columbia U came to demo a neural controlling interface. Simply freaky. As one would control the buttons on a mac, his arms would twitch without his control. Only about 0.025mAs going through these electrodes, but the layer of the skin with H20 abundant tissue cells allow for the current to move through rapidly, affecting the muscle movements.
Midterm
- concept, theory, execution (actual physcial thing)
- presentation of
Ideas
- Single board computer
- SD chip has 60 sec chips SMD
- TMS :cuts out certain parts of the brain functions to knock out parts of speech, visual field, etc
Spatial Annotation
- wifi systems, gps
- we don't really need to have the tech to get this idea of spatial annotation, ex. street signs, tagged environments around us
- who, what, how is it used?
- creating tags onto spaces (open node), chalked tags on streets (temporal quality)
- visual, audio tags
- podcase : museum audio guidance
- storage= flat
- memory = texture to it
- the idea of "tagging" has changed
- tagging is storage not memory (experience)
- needs the experience and memory
- retrieving into not creating exprience or mem
- bodies moving things that are tagged, not necessarily static tagging
- changing community with a wifi boombox
Domestic Annotations
- smart homes: predicts, manages life at homes, controlled environments
- controlling environments outside of the home and managing appliances
- knowing personal prefs for me
- predicts, plans, manages
- programming randomness within the controlled system
- automated systems: can become absolutes
Posted by min at March 8, 2006 01:59 AM