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Wearable Tech: Socially Aware Headwear.

A head phone setup that does more than just play music and track GPS positions. It allows you to have awareness of who's around you and if there's traffic nearby, so that listening to music doesn't put you in danger or reduce your social availability. The top and side 45 degree connection serves to remind us that both the ability to hear and the ability to see are affected by the trend of wearing headphones. Let's make headwear that is, instead, socially aware.

#wearables pcomp

CCLab Project 12/14: Capulets and Montagues, feat Digital Flock

Machines make us think, helps us get things done, and induces us to fall in love, with humans, or, in the future, with machines. We stare at our computers everyday, compulsively, para-abnormally, creepily. What do machines thing about that? What if machines stared at us? What does a network of collaborating, conflicting machines evoke in us? Will we see their individual personalities, their agency, and their perceived "secret lives?" This project uses a digital flock of pan-and-tilt machines coupled to cameras running openCV to track human faces and exhibit unique behaviors when faces are found (or not found). Two groups of machines inhabit this platform. One uses raspberry pi and its camera to keep track of face locations so that their associated flock can look at humans when they are facing the camera and do leisure tasks when they are not. The other group of machines follows a leader which has a mounted webcam connected to an Arduino Leonardo which is controlled by openFrameworks' openCV library. The former flock keeps a model of the world and faces within it, while the latter flock only moves closer to faces when they are found. Thus a model-based system vs. an online system can be found to exhibit different behaviors. People have fun with the model-based system, but think that the online system is finicky and flaky, mostly because it doesn't see faces unless they are close by. Actions are taken by humans or by machines in making things happen. We can tell stories by using machines with different interaction styles, which upon closer examination appear to us as different personality types. The machine amongst the machines is akin to the human within the humans.

#cclab openframeworks arduino

CCLab HW 11/30: Bee Hive Flocking Behavior

Bees flock together just like birds, but when we drive them apart, they stick around, forming a halo like effect like a vortex. In this project, I mimick bee flocking behavior by spinning particles when they are repulsed. When they are off the screen they begin to come together. When they are too close they fly apart. At intermediate lengths they spin around and form a random-sized vortex. Implemented as a particle system in openFrameworks.

#cclab openframeworks

CCLab HW 11/16: Neon Rotational Poof Fireworks

In the fireworks in Japan's Tamagawa festival, I saw a radial firework that disappears after some time into small flickers. This is an attempt to reproduce the effect in code. I designed a neon-colorful fireworks display which propagates in polar coordinates outwards while randomly moving spirally. When the mouse moves after the fireworks in started, the firework is flickered into small bits, creating an impressionistic effect. Implemented in openFrameworks.

#cclab openframeworks

CCLab HW 11/09: Color-Inverting Face Mirror

When we see ourselves in the mirror, we see what we like, we see our own faces and fall in love with them. When the computer sees our faces, they don't see what we see. They see merely data. In this project, we use OpenCV and the stream to capture what a webcam image of what we see ourselves to be versus what the computer sees. Mouse presses switch between the computer and our view. The data is fresh, and it is not us. Implemented in openFrameworks.

#cclab openframewoks

CCLab HW 11/01: Random Users for Face Feature Comparisons

We are always looking at ourselves, comparing ourselves to other's perception of us. What if we can connect with random people around the world and try to empathize with them? We can start by trying to look like them in a static image, to start seeing where they're from. In this javascript game, we compare our webcam images with some random person from around the world, and are scored based on how well we made the expressions and features of our faces similar to theirs. I used the randomuser API to generate random people, whose images are compared to ourselves. When a picture is taken, we compare the taken picture with the API generated picture and provide a score telling us how similar they are. Higher scores mean we are doing better in presenting a facial expression and features that matches the random stranger's.

#cclab javascript

CCLab HW 10/26: AI Scheduler with Mind of Its Own

Charlie is a chatbot scheduler who takes care of your appointments and dates for you. Unlike most AI chatbots, though, it has its own agenda. When it's busy it'll ignore you. In this case, we try to schedule a meeting with Sven for the next day, but Charlie has its own mind, more important things to attend to. The flaky and absent-minded chatbot is using your emotionality against you. I used the API.ai library to generate a chatbot, specifying domain knowledge involving scheduling and catching errors.

#cclab javascript

CCLab HW 10/12: A Shy Lamp

Our cell phones are are babies. We put them in covers, laminate them, protect them with finger print ID and face recognition and put them in animal cutsy containers. When we lose them we freak out as if we lost our pet. Can we create such an association with other devices simply by the way they respond? I made a lamp that tracks your face when she is far away using computer vision. When she gets close, however, she hides her face (bulb). She also dims her bulb and behave somewhat erratically when you interact with her. We get a sense of the lamp being alive because we project our own emotions onto them. What is unique about humans is their ability to see humanity in all things.

#cclab #arduino

CCLab HW 9/28: Clock for Chatbots

A chatbot that talks about your problems. There are both delays that reflect how long the user takes to type and communicate, as well as random delays that causes the user to expect the answer but have to wait, making her anxious. These random waiting times are communicated via a clock that moves a needle in the servo as well as a counting up on an LED. The user is expected to stare at the clock and wonder when the chatbot will finally reply.

#cclab #arduino

CCLab HW 9/14: Distance and Sound detector

Use ultrasonic sensor to detect distance and Big sound sensor to detect noise amplitude. When something is close, or very noisy, 2-color LED goes red. When no loud noise and nothing is close by, LED is green. A simple sign for detecting objects near by by using distance and sound.

#cclab #arduino

CCLab HW 9/7: Button press LED

LED that switches state based on button press. Press once to turn on, press again to turn off.

#cclab #arduino

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