https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux6tfmU5NO0

Circular Breathing is a personal breath recorder. While breathing and blowing into the mouthpiece, the viewer records a breath pattern. After letting go of the button, the breath pattern plays back indefinitely, looping from start to finish. The piece turns the circular process of breathing into a circular recording. With practice, viewers can create seamless air loops that mimic the Read more →

https://player.vimeo.com/video/112387261?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

This interactive piece was created by New York based artist Lisa Park uses brainwave sensors. The brain activity would be detect from NeuroSky EEG headset into data and translate to sound wave to create vibration in the pool. There is total of 48 pools with speakers which symbolise 48 different emotions define by a philosopher Baruch Spinoza such as hope, Read more →

  For our group (nicholas makoto, goh chersee,xinfeng, maung phyo win zaw), we’ve decided to create a color based detection system for the pong controller. To use it, we’ve placed 2 differently colored foam pads, one is green, and the other is purple. The closer the colored pieces are, the more the pong paddle would go in one Read more →

https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk

Theremin is a musical instrument that was created in 1928 by a Russian inventor Leon Theremin. It is played without touching any of the components and the device was able to determine the pitch and volume of the sound by calculating the distance between your hand and the two antennas. The vertical antenna changes the pitch while the horizontal antenna Read more →

PARI – your personal hug companion

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisFuture/videos/1707701345937705/

This device is actually a very simple one. What you need is a vibration motor to provide feedback to the hugger, bluetooth/wifi chip to connect to the app and a pressure sensor to detect and transmit data of how much you squeeze your hug.

I am however not certain of how good the sensor is Read more →

Bio Circuit: A wearable soundscape is created by Dana Ramler. This device detects the heart rate of the person through the sounds produced by the MP3 located at the collar of the wearable. This enables the wearer to understand their own psychological state when they hear a specific environment. The purpose of Bio Circuit is to create awareness of Read more →

Measuring Less to Feel More by Mickael Boulay is essentially a type of Glucometer, a medical device that determines the approximate concentration of glucose in one’s blood. How this particular device is different is that the design of the device has a distinct focus on the interaction between the device and its user.

“Tools are supposed to help us. And Read more →

For Interactive Devices Project, I Intended to do it as a solo project so that I could possibly learn more through the exploration process.

After some research, I’ve got 3 general ideas in mind which I might consider:

Wearable Devices:

Could be for Fashion

– Something that look nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_IbQk0rGY

Could be for Entertainment

– Something that is amusing to the user/viewer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnEHk_qEHo

Could be for Practical uses

– Something Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4iTQ7lr2W0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkPt9MYqDW0&t=117s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_0BfPlJYc

So apparently this is a thing that exists. Though makey makey is relatively simpler to construct, i found its applications and implications more interesting to me. The idea here is that inanimate objects have anthropomorphic properties imbued into them. For example, the following carrot screams when it is cut, much like what would happen if an actual person is being Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtfD_rJ2hE

The next installation that I would like to talk about is the interactive art device called Tangible media.The device is a new take on the Pinscreen, a popular desk toy that allows you to create a rough 3-D model of an object by pressing it into a bed of flattened pins.

In this build, the pins are connected to a motor Read more →