Hi folks,

My name is Olivia and my partner just dropped the TUI class so I don’t have a team any more. My interest is in cross-sensorial perceptions (i.e. “seeing” sounds or “hearing” visuals) in any context. Any teams out there who can use a 3rd person?

Thanks! can email me at oting1@gmail.com

hey everyone,

I am a first year PhD at the I School with an interest in augmented public spaces. Owen and I are potentially looking for a third member, ideally with a background in music.

Our current idea involve using tangible inputs to alter specific characteristics of music to intensify their capacity to induce chills/elicit an emotional response. In particular, we are interested in whether some kind of agency on the part of the listener can evoke a more intense emotional experience (since music typically is one-directional, from the composer/musician to the audience).

A simple idea would be to position 3 motion sensors in a darkened, enclosed space, and have each sensor modify a characteristic of the music (likely on an analog dimension). For instance, one sensor would change the relative loudness of the different voices (birdsong vs heavy strings vs. light strings), change the reverberation and atmospheric quality (in an echoing space), or alter the pitch or slow the beat of the music, etc. The quality of the music changes as the listener moves around the room, places his hand out, or if there are multiple participants in the room. Participants can “play” with the music by modifying their position and hand motions within the room.

Here is a piece by Andrew Bird we might start with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLIphmuBpo

The idea extends some work in a previous biosensors course with John Chuang – archival blog post available here: http://musiconthebrain15.blogspot.com/

If interested in chatting some more, email me at qchong(at)berkeley.edu or we can chat on Monday. 😀

Hey! So I’m interested in putting together a project that offers a tangible means of interacting with mathematical representations (a graph, diagram, geometrical object, etc.). A main role for the computing part of this project would be to handle calculations so that users can focus on qualitative patterns and relationships. By backgrounding computation, my hope is that this project would make targeted mathematics concepts an accessible consequence of the designed physical interaction.

A few ideas so far (not wedded to any one, happy to consider more):

1. An interactive graph where users could bend, move, or rotate a physical object representing a function. The corresponding equation for that function would update in real time. Could maybe be contextualized as a roller-coaster building game.
2. Mirrored Spirograph (perhaps more aligned with art). Interface is that of a typical Spirograph, but users could choose to have the image reflected along various axes (as through mirrors, but electronically, perhaps in different colors or with different time delays/effects).
3. A triangular frame with sides that lengthen/shorten and corners that rotate through a variety of angles. By automatically calculating properties of that triangle (area, perimeter, trigonometric functions), users could explore the impact of certain deformations on various properties. For this one, the motivating Object(ive) needs some work…

If any of these ideas sound interesting to you (or if this sounds like an avenue you’d like to think about together), please let me know!

-Leah

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