http://www.carolinapino.net >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.carolinapino.net/metroline.htm metroline project---see!
MIDTERM PRIJECT------FROM OBS STUFFTOY http://www.carolinapino.net/stuffy.htm GROUP OBS PROJECT///////http://itp.nyu.edu/~mcp296/pcomp/toy.htm
READING-------BUT IS IT USABLE?////////// It’s very interesting how research teams develop in the path to generate a new design. The idea of “what kids want today”, and not what the team remembered wanting when they were kids (thermos research group-new lunch kit), is definitely something we never do when researching, since we always tend to reference our own experiences in order to understand better the study target. Combining research and design means reality and fiction mixed all together: what are people’s needs in the day to day world and how this can be given. The interviews to parents and teachers (something what was new for thermos, was the emotional involvement when parents purchased a lunch kit) and the observation during lunch time, differences between young and little kids, amounts and type of food, experience of eating, etc. Making models or prototypes that children could be able to try, also brings benefits for sure for the definitive product (as their descriptions, always are a good index of what a good product can be, cause they are always spontaneous in theirs appreciations).
Collaboration among two enterprises (Thermos and Fitch RS) and the client, also in the researching group; researchers and designers, seems to be a very good starting point to get to know people’s real necessities and preferences so as to give them an accurate product. The difference between the terms “useful” and “usable” are exactly the difference between how much big companies let the client to participate in the process of creating a new product. It’s curious to think of such a high percentage of failure rates in products that are already in the market.
Had they been tested, is the observation process a new item in creating a product? I wish I had read this text before making the midterm project and been able to see the pictures too.
sorry for being a mess-----all other reading assignments posted under "readings"------
RESPONSIVE ENVIROMENTS(1977) week 4 it's interesting to think that interactive art could be only an object doing "something". i had always thought about how can an object which its enthropy is to be dead, when technology comes, the same object it supposes to be "alive", or "do" something. when myron krueger writes about some "decisions" he made after the Glowflow experience it really makes good sense to hear that finally it is about concept, and that technology treated as a tool. Response is the medium//////think about the audience, in visual arts, become something new when talking about considering technology/interaction. For visual arts, is not only a matter of opening to new spaces and ways of expressions, but also, about the audience as a “user”, or the responsible of finishing the art piece. The artist interfering as the author mentioned, in a “metalevel”, as in the piece Videoplace, where all the settings are already given to the spectors-users, with whom it’s created a new form of communication, unpredictable, even unsuspictable for the author/artist, since people’s choices take their own place in this virtual space. As said, aesthetics are secondary compared to responses of human experience regards on real-time interaction (interaction within humans and machines generally speaking).
HMWK - 1
this is the first assignment. hard to upload images than to do the excercise! i was very excited and i wondered where does the electicity that went to ground goes...
this image is very small. i tried to explain to myself what i was doing by making arrows and putting the names to the steps i made.
my finger pressing the switch (interrutor, interrupts electricity)
side view
HMWK - 2
...so, THIS WAS EXCITING! i realized that everything must followed some kind of strategy: everyhting has to do with details, simplicity and cleanness. ///////couple of LED on and off each 5 seconds. i had some troubles when programming the chip, it broke down and i had to replace it by a new one...i didn't put a switch. it worked finally!
INTERRUPTOR itp.nyu.edu/~mcp296/pcomp/CAR.gif
DIGITAL OUT the idea of putting electricity into the chip by means of the potentiometer, and have it out digitally, finally made my led to go on and off (turning the potentiometer switch)/////this explanation is for my own understanding and comprehension. see code (link soon):
'****************************************************************
'* Name : simpleADC.BAS * '* Author : T. Holoubek * '* Notice : Copyright (c) 2004 [select VIEW...EDITOR OPTIONS] * '* : All Rights Reserved * '* Date : 1/3/2004 * '* Version : 1.0 * '* Notes : * '* : * '**************************************************************** DEFINE OSC 4 start: INCLUDE "modedefs.bas" ' Define ADCIN parameters ' Set number of bits in result DEFINE ADC_BITS 10 ' Set clock source (3=rc) DEFINE ADC_CLOCK 3 ' Set sampling time in microseconds DEFINE ADC_SAMPLEUS 10 ' Set PORTA to all input TRISA = %11111111 ' Set up ADCON1? analog and right justify the result adcon1 = %10000010 'define adc vars adcVar0 VAR WORD ' ir Create variable to store result
pause 500 main: 'Read channel 0 ADCIN 0, adcVar0 if adcVar0 >= 255 then
high PORTD.2
else
LOW PORTD.2
endif
'print the variable - notice the variable name is preceded by DEC 'serout2 portc.6, 16468, [DEC adcVar0, 13, 10] GoTo? main
see picts:
HMWK NB 4 (WEEK 4)
i almost cried! the servo motor was so easy to program, at the first time, it worked and it was great! i think movement is the best thing you do ever...i used michael's code and went from pin 3 to power and ground and that was almost everything i did...the servo was a little bit slow, but i'm working on the code to make is faster. SO SO SO SO COOOOOOL.........
so this is the picture of the servo installed on my breadboard so well set up, that i feel i can plugg EVERYTHING ON iT!!!!
