Category: Final Project

[Interactive II] – Milestone 16 Apr

“Cattitude”
by Putri Dina and Hannah Kwah

Milestones
Project Proposal  |  28th Mar  |  4th Apr  |  11th Apr  |  12th Apr  |  15th Apr  |  16th Apr  |  17th Apr  |  Final Documentation

Building the cat – part 3
The next step was to place the Touch sensors at specific locations where they are the cat’s sensitive spots. 


After placing the Touch sensors, we decided to add a fur like texture for people to want to interact with the cat. The problem we had was to make sure that when the Touch sensors are at these places, the fabric on lying above would not trigger the sounds.

Almost finalised look of the cat.

Moving forward
– Debugging of the patch to trigger one sound at the time

– Finishing up the cat

[Interactive II] Milestone – 11 Apr

“Cattitude”
by Putri Dina and Hannah Kwah

Milestones
Project Proposal  |  28th Mar  |  4th Apr  |  11th Apr  |  12th Apr  |  15th Apr  |  16th Apr  |  17th Apr  |  Final Documentation

Our group were still struggling to make the Touch sensors play one sound when a person touches 2 Touch sensors at the same time. At the same time, we decided to start building our cat so that we could combine the current technology with the build up.

Mock ups
We started off by doing up a small prototype to test out.  Here are some parts of the cat in different parts.

We are attempting to piece the pieces together to get the rough structure of the cat. 

After trying out with the paper structure, we attempted to work on the finalised structure.
Building the cat – part 1
We decided to build the cat out of cardboard as it is sturdy to withstand the pressure by the people interacting with it. As there were many parts of the cat we wanted to place the Touch sensors on, we needed to consider the structure of the cat too. Cardboard is not a flexible material, we were struggling to bend it to make the shape visible and gluing them together.



Building the cat – part 2
We had to combine the different parts of the cat together to form the structure. It was not an easy process as we had quite a number of hiccups while combining them together.


 

[Interactive 2] Milestone – 28 Mar

“Cattitude”
by Putri Dina and Hannah Kwah

Milestones
Project Proposal  |  28th Mar  |  4th Apr  |  11th Apr  |  12th Apr  |  15th Apr  |  16th Apr  |  17th Apr  |  Final Documentation

Particle Videos

Neutral State

Human Detected State

Chin

Head

Back

Tailbone

Stomach

 

Resources
EditorX: http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/403

Overview

Select the USB port

Switch the sensor input that we are using. When pressed the touch sensor, a graph will be shown in the form of a wave to show the touch response. Multiple sensors can be used at the same time (up to 8 sensors).

Click the edit button to specifically manage the input

After clicking the edit button, a drop down will appear. This is optional for us to edit the values.

Touch v1.5: http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/135

 

Max Patch

Experimenting with the values from EditorX to MAX.

 

Feedbacks from LPD

  • Make the interaction richer
  • What happens when 2 sensors are touched at the same time
  • Currently, the project is at entry level, make it more complex
    E.g.: When user strokes both cheeks, the cat will purr. However, after a long period of time, it will get annoyed and respond differently.
  • The video can be more dynamic since it is currently focusing on levels of emotions. Add elements to surprise the user.

 

Moving forward
Finalize concept – what will happen when multiple parts are triggered.
Get the patches to work with multiple touch sensors
Get values for each sensor
Prototype & buy materials