Week 8 - Physical Interactions!

Contact Week 8 Notes:

Tangible Interaction:

Using physical game controllers: Wii Controller, steering wheel, Guitar Hero controllers

Answering Machine, marbles, to represent people/messages

ReacTable – drag elements, building blocks of electronic music http://www.reactable.com/

Central white dot pulsater

Generators, Effects and filters, controllers, global controllers

Super Angry Birds – physical slingshot, controller for angry birds, physical objects. Software programming.

Cylinder shaped, flows in water, creating digital pulsating colour waves, water pollution data.

Big-Mac-Index, digital screen how long to exercise to burn the calories of a big mac,/buy a big mac.

Human Diagram – create information graphics with your own body – pressing on icons with your foot on the ground? Showed silhouette (colour) on another board?

Sound Memories – Store memories in sound form, for blind person. Put a weird physical circular thing into a machine.

Other Tangible Interfaces

Plugg, SKAL, Daily Stack

Exercise:

Email, Twitter, Super Mario Bros (the platformer game)

Come up with 5 different physical interactions for each

What are the elements/controls of each application?

Eg: What are the basic controls in Pong, how could you map them to physical action/input?

Bike cycle forwards and backwards, seesaw, air controlled pong, ladder, pulley

Email:

Sending and receiving - moving a ball/marble between two different plates (similar to the answering machine example)

Open a 'mailbox' to check your inbox

Throw a physical envelope into the bin to delete a message/send to junk

Draw a coloured box around several emails to put all emails in the same category

Open up an envelope (representing someone's email) to reply to them

Twitter:

Using movement of a bird model to send a tweet

Drop a rectangle object (representing a 'physical' tweet) into a box to retweet it on your profile

Actually place stars on 'physical' tweets to favourite them

Place a 'physical' tweet into the "hashtag box" (specially hash shaped) to find other tweets with same hashtags

To follow a person place your "profile box" onto someone else's "profile box"

Super Mario Bros:

Physical coins (objects) dropping, to represent dropping of coins

Use a 'Dance Dance Revolution' style control pad to control Mario with feet on the floor

Punch the air to throw a fireball (if available)

Clap your hands for Mario to jump

Run on a treadmill for Mario to move forward