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Final Poster Designs

Clint — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:53:31 +0000

My final poster designs for the Barcoded Nation project.

Bullets are a commensurable item for a gun. People wonder how many guns there are in the world but often forget about the amount of bullets that must be produced and that are wasted through guns. Are these going to be stocked on shelves at your local supermarket in the future?

Bombs are an item of war. Designed to cause maximum damage and maximum causalities.

“The level of gun ownership world-wide is directly related to murder and suicide rates and specifically to the level of death by gunfire.” (Professor Martin Killias, May 1993.) Guns have become a highly commensurable item of death. Guns are sold both legally and illegally and wanted for the feeling of power they can bring.

As people have now become numbers, what about human life? To some people, human life is expendable and even a consumable. These people take human identity away and give human life a number.

Gas mask:
As we destroy and pollute our planet. Will the air we breathe become a commodity. Will the gas mask become a mass produced item? This also links back to warfare will human greed and ignorance fuel a chemical warfare were the gas mask could be come a daily item or even a fashion piece?

Posters Final Image Style

Clint — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:31:04 +0000

SoundSpace Video

Clint — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:50:14 +0000

Video demonstration of our SoundSpace Interface.

Interface Technology

Clint — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:39:41 +0000

There are two main area if technology that we have been looking at that would make the SoundSpace interface possible.

Shadow Detection
Shadow detection is the most plausible and accessible technology for the SoundSpace interface. The SoundSpace interface would be projected onto the floor from the roof. A camera would also also mounted to the roof, this would be feed into a computer and using software to pick up the HSV colour space values. We would set the software to pick up the HSV values for shadow areas. People will be picked up when they enter the interface space as the projector is illuminating the area and when they are moving in the space they are breaking the light and casting a shadow. We then can convert this detection to isolate a persons co-ordinates with in the space, this will also be fed to the interface so the interface will react with a visual response and trigger the appropriate sound.

A more effective method of shadow detection, but more expensive and not as accessible would be to use infra red lights and cameras to detect people with in the space. Works similar to above but with more accurate results.

See sample videos below:

Tangible Multitouch Surface
Displax have developed a touch sensitive fil which is 98% transparent. This surface can be stuck to walls or the floor. This method would still use the projectors to project the interface onto the floor.

Another method would be to use the technology behind the Microsoft surface. This would be most expensive method and lest accessible but would provide the greatest result. This would be installed into the floor of a chosen space. This method would allow the touch sensitivity and display all in one. This also may allow the interface to be installed into brighter spaces where projectors are not as effective.

Paper Prototyping Video

Clint — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:03:40 +0000

Video from our paper prototyping exercise for SoundSpace.

Barcoded Nation T-shirts

Clint — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:17:11 +0000

Some T-shirt designs for Barcoded Nation Project. Might be added into the project. They can be added into a kit which could comprise of a bag, stickers, t-shirt and maybe more.

Final Outcome Filming

Clint — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:17:46 +0000

For the final outcome we have proposed to do a mock video to help us explain the interface. This video will then be projected onto the floor. Also an computer wil be used to allow people to switch between the video and a sample interface where they can controll one of the rings via a wacom tablet.

Below are some photos of our film day. I grabbed some green fabric to use as a green screen. Which worked quite well. We filmed one persona at a time, with them moving to the sound of the music. Alot of post production work needs to be done on this video before it is finished.

Money Bags V2

Clint — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:06:26 +0000

I made some more moneybags. Might take this further outside of university, as now it is not part of this project. Want to get better photos of them showing peoples reactions. Will have to do this when I am finished. See my previous post for my rational behind this stunt.

Progress Report V2

Clint — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:31:30 +0000

Updated posters slightly for our meeting on tomorrow. I was thinking of some more ideas for these posters. Some items that could have barcodes on them are.

Weapons: hand guns, grenade, machine gun, bomb(mass destruction)
Life: baby, dead body(toe tag), coffin
Body Parts: heart, brain
Pills/drugs/syringes
Grim reaper
Handcuffs/chains/shackles
Gasmask

These items may go over 3 posters, this maybe good to play with scale and if posters are placed on the same wall they will work together.

Progress Report

Clint — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:42:56 +0000

After having a meeting with our mentor, David Lancashire, we ironed a few issues I had been having with the project. The main issue I had been having was that our message was not clear enough and was getting clouded behind to many different applications. This is mainly due to being a group project with different minds coming together. From this meeting we are heading down a direction I wanted too.

We decided to go back to do a proposal for a poster exhibition or a poster series and website. The poster will be more in your face but yet simple and straight to the point. I have done some real rough concepts. which are below.