MakerFaire Experience

1. Sir Walter Cooler

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This Sir Walter Cooler from Microsoft was interesting to me because the machine shows emotional expression, which I am interested in, to give information of water needs to users.  It tried to catch users’ attention by showing color on the board and also a man’s voice to encourage users to drink water more.  I think the way of showing color and voice are successful but also failed. The reason why I thought so is because color was hard to recognise. In specific, the board was black color and there are little circles and the informative colour appears at the stroke of the circles. As a result, users might have difficulties to recognize them.

2. Drawing Tool

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This work is from MFADT !! This is drawing tool with physical objects and digital images. Users can create colour with 3 cups of water by mixing them in a cup from the data(water weight and selection of water cup). It is just transparent water but it shows differ color on the screen. Also, users can use this color to lamp’s light color. It encourage users to use real physical brushes and water to make colour and apply them to digital world. I think successful thing of the project is it combines analog and digital in interesting way. Users can enjoy their painting with water and brush which are physical art materials to play with digital drawing tool.

 

3. (I cannot remember exact name of this..)

This work was interesting to me so much, because I want to explore smart home interaction design and this work inspired me of that. It  spreads beautiful visual effects based on sensing system. It encourage users to touch and feel the huge screen and feel something connection between the screen and themselves.

 

What inspired me & What types of things that might influence my own work

The things using lights inspired me at the Faire. First reason is because I used to think ideas in a way of representing things at the bright spaces, but I realise lights brings fun to enjoy things even in a dark room. Secondly,there is a few things that I can interact in a dark room such as smart phone, lap top, tablets and etc. I want to explore more about thinking smart home with interactive lights. I might use some light effects to my future work to express human’s emotions in an interactive way such as color changes based on various kinds of sensors.

 

 

 

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