Well, here was the first concept for the project originally that I have some old process work for:
For our project, we want to look into the idea of human dependency on technology. In today's world, technology, especially computers have become so integral into the functionality of our everyday lives. Specifically, for this project, we want to
look at the interaction between humans and technology and how it has in a large part has affected us on a social level. We were interested in the idea of technology acting as a human companion and replacing that emotional and social desire for interaction
One of the most intimate human to human physical actions is touch. We are interested in exploring this idea of touch and want to create
a computer that responds to human touch. Were going to make an interactive piece that enables the viewer to engage with a computer in an unusual way.
Instead of a keypad there with be a surface resembles the technology, but will be much more organic/soft to the touch. The viewer will be able to interact
with this surface by pressing down, petting, stroking, massaging etc. and the computer will react either positively or negatively to this interaction.
The type of sensor we plan on using is a flex sensor, or some sort of pressure sensor that will be activated by the pressing down of the viewer. This sensor
will be hooked up to an arduino. We also plan on having the interaction to cause the computer to produce sound of some sort, either positive or negative
depending on the pressure applied. This sound will be produced by a wav kit that will be attached to the arduino. Meanwhile, were still debating on what
will be displayed on the screen, possibly flashes of color to display mood and emotion.
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