Project Pitch

After close research over the last five weeks, I have looked closely at projection mapping  and motion gesture (interaction).

During the excursion, I ventured around the museum and came across a SMART play zone which featured projected images that can be interacted with through Kinect xbox. One example involved an image of a pool, which could be interacted with by adding pool floats to the pool from the iPad on the wall. If you stand on the float the water interacts with your feet and ripples. Within DIGC310 and DIGC335 I have been working with interaction within a board-game by using motion gesture and projection. I, therefore wish to carry this project across into this subject. Within week 1 we defined our field and while working and managing the digital media and marketing at First National Real Estate, I have noticed a significant change which I could make, one which could add to the business and branch of work. For real estate windows to stand out from the rest, I have decided to try and work on back projecting the website onto the window with the possibility of it becoming interactive. Here is an example of a  “Interactive shop window.”

Within the gallery space, a piece of glass held up by a structure (much like a window), layered with a tinted film can be used to project the website on. The website video can be pre-recorded to navigate through the pages automatically. A way in which the window could become interactive would include touch motion or motion gesture, in which people outside of the window can navigate through the website themselves just by touching the window or gesturing.

I have experimented already with Leap Motion and Kinect Xbox as a means adding motion gesture to the projector, on a much larger scale than a projected window, so to estimate the way in which my project will work on glass and on a smaller scale is hard to say especially on a tinted window.

The aim would be to back project a website onto glass, but if we can program Kinect to pick up gesture to navigate through a website on a window, that would be insane and a game changer within real estate. The first real issue I can think off would be if motion can be picked up through the tinted window or whether the interaction would be severely interrupted. Through testing the technology, we would be able to expand its function and the way people interact with the specific artwork.

I can’t wait to experiment!

Taken for here.

 

My 3 class project

Experiencing South Korean food first struck me while watching state of play in DIGC330. Over the last three weeks I have explored three different recipes, experiencing and cooking them in different ways. I have decided to approach this by linking three of my subjects together. DIGC202 is asking me to produce a digital artefact to solve a problem which has arose in research and DIGC330 is asking me to experience an asian culture through auto -ethnography research. In DIGC330 I have been exploring Korean food in which i have found there are many things I am allergic to which are in most of the recipes, taking me forever to filter through recipes and find one i can actually make and eat. This led me to designing a chrome extension that filters out ingredients you are allergic too in DIGC202.

At the moment for this class I want to continue to explore and research Korean recipes and document my experience in making them. After reading ‘Constructing a digital story circle’ by Nick Couldry (2015) and researchers, it was interesting to see that storytelling elements can be linked together to show to each other how the other lives.’Part of what is important about a digital story circle is that it can bring multiple media together.’ This is evident in the use of vlogs that I am using as well as tweets, hash tagging all my subjects.

I have decided to take the same subject matter across all three subjects as it gives me a massive audience as well as many different forms of platforms for engagement. I am currently using a class reddit thread, you tube for my vlogs, my own blog and twitter which all intertwines and engages with each other. This gives me a massive advantage over a lot of other students, when looking at the amount of coverage I can get as well as engagement. This also gives me more feedback as well as different perspectives in which I can improve on and build upon. Sources given to me are also useful in helping me build upon my experience and research. Through class presentations in a number of my classes within the next two weeks I can deeply explore and question with lecturers and tutors in different subjects in order to get a well rounded opinion of how the research subject is being understood by my audience.

Supported by the Ellis & Bochner, 2000 reading, it was agreed that researchers, “wanted to concentrate on ways of producing meaningful, accessible, and evocative research…forming a representation that deepens our capacity to empathize with people who are different from us.” Through vlogging my experience on Youtube, blogs and twitter, I was able to share the content across different mediums in order to give everyone easy accessibility to my research and understanding of Korean food. Below is some of the platforms I have been using to work on these.

 

As you can see a number of platforms are being used which all link back to y blog on different pages. I am engaging with class content from all three classes as well as tweeting and posting about my experience with Korean cooking. By using up-votes and down votes on reddit, reddit users have the ability to deem whether the sources you want to use are credible and useful or not. As you can see above, some sources i have spoken about have more uproots than others so I would be discussing the sources with a stronger focus on them in relation to this project. Similar to Nick Couldrys explanation of ‘visitor traffic’ it is easy to measure on WordPress admin, reddit and youtube as to how much traffic is being generated and which content is being more engaged with than others. The DIGC330 page can be used as an example of Couldrys idea of ‘Multiplying’- on the page, years of students research is archived and can be accessed, this shows the overarching story of each students research projects.

‘In digital stories; voice not only tells a vital narrative but it also captures the essence of the narrator, their unique character and their connection to the lived experience’ (Lambert 2006: 18) This is one of the main reasons I chose to vlog. So people could experience with me and recognise a similar way of thinking to me when cooking Korean food.

All that I have working on is in everything linked within this blog post, as well as on my website and twitter.

I hope to continue to explore Korean food and engage with more people to help create this digital circle.