So this is my first post for Communicative Communities, better late than never. I’m working in a group with Jake Walters, Lena Benzig and Eilidh Bennett. I joined the group last so there were already ideas floating around about what groups to work with. Communicative Communities The brief is to enhance a community group in [...]

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Currently doing some research into online identity and how its constructs effect our real self. Any thoughts?

Okay, so the brief is very open on this project… Brief DM 210 Language, Technology and Subjectivity. In the light of Post structural and Post Human debates around how identities are constructed, design and realise a media artefact or system that demonstrates critical awareness of and offers resistance to determining structures of identity formation at [...]

API Testing – Using Flickr and the Flash tutorial, complete and tweak to my requirements API Testing – Explore Twitters API and start to gather data using it Front End Interface – Create a sketch of how the front end interface would look/function Theory – Research into the areas of mood and how environments effect [...]

I’m really getting interested now in the user collaborative space idea now. The idea of a social space where a user can experience an interface based on what others feed in. E.g. Using LCD monitors/projectors to add pictures to a space, add sounds, add colours to walls. It’s endless. There are so many variables and additions that [...]

I found this website with a really slick example of using the Flickr API in an adobe flash app. http://www.simpleviewer.net/tiltviewer/app/ I like the way it elegantly displays the images and gives you another level of interaction.

I like this website, it’s communicating a clear message in a very innovative way. http://waterlife.nfb.ca/ It changes the way you interact with sites.. I like it. Why should everything be the same?

Clever. http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/ This website is very clever in the way it can be adjusted to your needs, I like the way the interface works and how simplistic it is. It’s easy to enjoy the aesthetics and aural sensations of the site without much input. Works very effectively..

So I have my presentation yesterday and got some really good feedback about my ideas and how to develop them. The idea Create an interactive atmosphere that customises to the user based on variables or a participatory  environment. The user would enter a few variables about information/art/video/(anything really) and create an atmosphere custom to them. The other [...]

Been playing with JQuery for the second time today.. Very interesting stuff and very powerful. Made a simple function which fades out an object on the page.

The way in which we interact with a website is set by the author. Why shouldn’t the website be branded to create a unique user experience based on a few variables, e.g location (common example is for weather), but why not take this one step further and use API’s to brand a complete new experience [...]

After thinking about the mood automation project, it doesn’t really have much depth [room for expansion]. So what shall I do? Well… Thoughts pending.

I really like the idea that the atmosphere of a room can change without human intervention. For example, as the room temperature changes, the lighting would be able to change automatically. We are all use the clumsy school heaters kicking in when a room drops below a certain temperature, but why shouldn’t the light change [...]

Initial Ideas The way in which humans interact with the web? Keyboard/mouse? Why? Voice recognition etc.. Custom layouts as per the way users engage with it? Body emotions.. Body temp to twitter.. Can we express how we feel without having to do it? Mood automation.. Room temp/humidity is taken, then the room lighting is adjusted [...]

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Okay, maybe a bit late in the day, but Tess had the idea of getting more user collaboration with the project. So we gathered sounds for our vocals screen by asking people to read out a quote or something that inspires them. I think this idea has a lot of potential and allows for a [...]

I used the new zoom recorders to get some atmos sounds for our project. I woke up to the sound of birds tweeting, so I got out of bed and recorded straight away. I then got an atmos of the train journey on the way to university and then several down at Tremough Vale on [...]

Aesthetics of the piece We wanted the piece to look professional. So we have decided to make some screens. Simple element as they may be, we feel that they add to the piece. We are also going to use the television studio to showcase our installation. Perception – If we can make every element as [...]

As the person in charge of the coding and flash side of the project, I was asked by Tess to make the whole piece “pretty”. She showed my a couple of examples of mouse trails etc. So I spoke with Al and showed him one that I found online and we got it working. After [...]

I really like this effect. We activated the alpha channel on our Hit Areas. So when you move your hand over the box, it fades up and when you move it away it fades down. It’s a very simple effect, but I think it adds a lot of sophistication to the way the user interacts [...]

We recorded some more sounds in the recording studio. We had a cross section of “different” instruments. I wanted to step away from the traditional instruments like guitars and what not. The sounds that we recorded came out really well! Josh’ friend Wilf came down and played the trumpet and harmonica for us. We asked [...]