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The code I used

The code I used for my hugging- machine:

#include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; const int pressure1 = A0; const int pressure2 = A1; const int greenLed = 5; const int redLed = 3;

int arrowVal = 179; int switchVal;

void setup() { myservo.attach(9); Serial.begin (9600); pinMode(3, OUTPUT); pinMode(5, OUTPUT);

}

void loop() { switchVal = analogRead(pressure1) + analogRead(pressure2);

switchVal = map(switchVal, 0, 2046, 179, 0);

if (switchVal < 60) {

digitalWrite(greenLed, HIGH); digitalWrite(redLed, LOW); } else { digitalWrite(greenLed, LOW); digitalWrite(redLed, HIGH); } Serial.print(switchVal); Serial.print(“\t”);

if (switchVal < arrowVal){ arrowVal = switchVal;

}

myservo.write(arrowVal); delay(15);

Serial.print(“Pil Verdi ”); Serial.println(arrowVal);

}

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It was posted on the wrong blog, but here it is, The code I used for the Hugging Machine!

A summary of the last five weeks:

In the last five weeks I’ve been working on a product for this brief:

http://ahointeractiveproducts2015.tumblr.com/post/132141183826/inventing-interactive-products

Short summary: Make an interactive product using Arduino. It must have one input and one output and be put in a context. I decided to work with marketing as my context, and interactions between people. In particular hugging, witch I think is one of the friendliest and most delightful interactions between people in the world.

What I essentially did was to make a “hug-o-meter”, It’s a machine that measures how good a hug between two people are, and that gives a instant visual feedback (the arrow) on how well the hug was preformed, and also a reward if the hug was sufficiently good.

The build was rather simple. A large poster(left in the picture) with a scale for reading the hugs’ value, and a measuring device(right in the picture) witch was to be the center of the hug.

The reward in this case was two pieces (one for each participant) of chocolate covered biscuit, that also provided the marketing context for my project. Manufactured by Freia, “Sjokoklem”, witch translates to “ChocoHug”, is one of my favorite biscuits. Fortunately it’s very poorly marketed and fitted well with my idea for the hugging machine, witch in turn made it a good choice of context.

I posted the code I used for the Arduino earlier.

The components I used for the input was two pressure sensors, witch feedback together calculated the value of the hug. This was so that one person less easily would max out the scale. It worked brilliantly, To reach a good score, pressure would have to be applied from both sides of the “hug-o-meter”.

For the output I built the instant feedback arrow from a servo engine. I would also have liked to make the chocolate ejecting mechanism, but it proved too complicated in the short time between user- testing the experience and prototyping for the exhibition.

Regrettably I was too preoccupied with handing out rewards and tending to som unforeseen complications during the exhibition to remember to film people using the machine, but the response was good. Especially when two full classes of fifth- graders came to have a look at what our course was about.

All in all a great semester, and a very cool brief!

#AHO #ahointeractiveproducts2015 #design #interactiondesign #Freia #Sjokoklem #Brief 13

Context is important

The last product of the semester started approximately five weeks ago. It began with learning how to code, and how to formulate the questions that the code would answer. Meanwhile we also started to ponder about what our final product would be. I was, early on, convinced that I wanted to work with interaction between people, and not exclusively with interacting with the product. Not long after this decision I began my project on Hugs. I wanted a visible or tactile, delightful response on hugs. I also wanted to somehow quantify them to measure the quality of the said hug. To me this was getting difficult, I struggled with narrowing down the possibilities for my product, and it was extremely limiting, because I didn’t feel like I could go deep into any one direction with the product. After a talk with my course supervisor @sneve, where context for the product was fixed things loosened up for me. I decided to make a product for advertisement.

The final prototype before exhibition!

This is the final prototype before commissioning, the second picture is from the last successful usertest.

After the last, and successful user-test I decided to use these three designs for the poster, the instructions and the padded hug-sensor.

Last week I was mainly focusing on the graphic design aspect of the project. Here are some of the later-stage suggestions I made.

Yesterday i did some usertests with the help of some architecture students and some design students. Turns out I have a few things to work on still.

After some hands on research I realized that the package design on sjokoklem has been changed. This was good to know.

#AHO #interactiondesign #design #ahointeractiveproducts2015 #research

A few ways this can be done, I think I'm going with the one in the upper left corner.

Me and @instatrym testing out the latest prototype of my project.

This is my prototype for the evaluation today. You place it between two people hugging and get a visual response on how the hug was percieved by the aparatus. It is thought to be used in product promotion for f. Eks Freias "Sjokoklem".

This is the mockup rig for the hugging sensor.

Making progress, if the pressure value exceeds a certain value the light switches from red to green, giving an indicator that the condition has been fulfilled.

Continuing my research on pressure sensors, this time with two pressure sensors. This makes for a more gradual and precise readout on the computer.

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Testing the hugging aspect wit the padded switch. Turned out pretty good😀

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