Since I am interested in the human condition I decided to explore situations were people have lost a bodily function. For this project I decided to focus on the fact that a lot of veterans are coming back with tinnitus and to create a metaphor from that. I made a wheelchair that would trigger a bomb sound followed by tinnitus effects every time it would stop. The user would have to keep moving to avoid the annoying sounds, the same way people with tinnitus have to get distracted to avoid hearing the buzzing inside their brains.
Technically, I used 2 xbee radios, connected to the NET Lab Kit
The Team for this project was Ina Xi, Hoon Oh, and me.
Theme:
The Greyscale between Active and Passive reading.
Attitude:
Our attitude towards this project is experimental. We are aiming to create a new way of accessing and organizing information so we can easily see patterns and connections to other areas of interest.
Concept:
We have identified two extremes while approaching reading: Active: The user actively looks for specific information that is needed. Passive: The user takes a serendipitous journey, expecting to find something new and interesting.
If we visualize one extreme as black and the other as white, we soon realize that people’s reading habits are situated on a greyscale: the two reading modes do not exclude each other. We think it would be very useful to sort the ocean of information according to our reading interests first, but also to have an open end to include serendipity. With our E-reader the user can choose any point between being an active and a passive reader.
