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– Helping people with SAD(seasonal affective disorder) and other anxiety and depression symptoms.
– Being a smart biological Clock adjusting modern schedule for modern human.
Link to Presentation: SUN
Link to Code: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3ncfgxNfUFJYzVValdkajdjOGs&usp=sharing
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Code: https://github.com/shiqishen/Core-Studio.git
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BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a protocol for the practice of peer-to-peer file sharing that is used to distribute large amounts of data over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and peer-to-peer networks have been estimated to collectively account for approximately 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic(depending on geographical location) as of February 2009. In November 2004, BitTorrent was responsible for 35% of all Internet traffic. As of February 2013, BitTorrent was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide bandwidth, more than half of the 6% of total bandwidth dedicated to file sharing.
1. Schulze, Hendrik; Klaus Mochalski (2009). “Internet Study 2008/2009”. Leipzig, Germany: ipoque. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-01. Retrieved 3 October 2011. “Peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) still generates by far the most traffic in all monitored regions – ranging from 43 percent in Northern Africa to 70 percent in Eastern Europe.”
2. “BitTorrent: The “one third of all Internet traffic” Myth”. TorrentFreak. 24 January 2007. Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
WeChat
People got to know about WeChat iass the Chinese WhatsApp. But that’s no longer the story. In the Newest vision of WeChat, they added some features of P2P network like WeChat Payments. It connects bank card to WeChat account so users can make payments in-app. Users can make transactions happen through 1. payments to WeChat authorized partner retailers 2. P2P (peer to peer) just like venmo, except all the features are included in your daily chatting app. WeChat also partnered with sites and services, two examples are the Chinese Yelp and Chinese Uber. You can groupon pay a meal through the app and also pay for your ride back home with WeChat pay. Since this January 21 million cab rides have been booked via WeChat.
(https://pixelbits.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/wechat-101-quit-comparing-wechat-and-whatsapp/)
Skype
The Skype protocol is a proprietary Internet telephony network based on peer-to-peer architecture, used by Skype. The protocol’s specifications have not been made publicly available by Skype and official applications using the protocol are closed-source. The Skype network is not interoperable with most other Voice over IP (VoIP) networks without proper licensing from Skype. Numerous attempts to study and/or reverse engineer the protocol have been undertaken to reveal the protocol, investigate security or to allow unofficial clients.
(http://blogs.skype.com/2014/06/20/making-way-for-the-next-generation-of-skype-on-desktop/)
P2P for interactive art
There are lots of possibilities of making art through the P2P technology. It could be a light dome that could be easily install in someone’s bedroom or living room. It would be on sale on a website. along with a app you need to download to control it. And everyone who bought this dome can create a lighting system to it and also upload it on to the sharing site, and everyone will have accuses to the site to install the lighting system into their dome. Think of it as creating swatches on photoshop and name it and sharing that swatch online to the Adobe Kuler.
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Cloud Fort is an interactive light project dedicated to recreate the childhood fort that we built from pillows and couch cushions and the sense of security that the fort brought us.
Arduino and PIR(passive infrared) sensor that are placed on top of the light serve as the interactive part of the project. Any human movement under the light will trigger it to turn on, and it will keep being on for 5 min until it gets triggered again.
The light source comes from two 20 feet battery powered christmas lights, and it’s wrapped around a hemispheroidal shape I made from hard steel wire. And everything is covered by white polyester.
Music: Measurements by James Blake
Model: Rika Konishi
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I want to create a meditative space featuring cloud and light.
It will take place in a small enclosed, windowless room where it will be filled with cotton made cloud as same height as people or even lower, the experience will be mimicking when we travel with airplanes and the clouds are right near us, and for me, it’s a very relaxing experience and release my stress.
The experience I want to create is people will walk in this room to relax from stressing situation, it will be all dark and filled with cotton cloud first, in the clouds there will be some sort of lighting equipment that are connected with Arduino. At the entrance it will be a infrared sensor detecting if anyone walks in. Then when people walk in, the sensor will send it signal to the Arduino which will trigger the clouds to slowly light up and then have this breathing rhythm to it that will make people to be aware of their breathing and can start to imitate and readjust their breathing to the light.
My target audience will be anyone that’s feeling stressed and want to leave the current setting and relax a little.
Cloud Room
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When I think about the behaviors that I want to change, it comes down to health and mind.
So far the routines I’m trying to alter are
1. to go to sleep earlier
2. to drink more water every day
3. remember to take my vitamin pills
4. to make my daily commute and the time I’m walking around
5. procrastinate less
I chose to improve the quality of the time I spent on my daily commute to school and other places
and also the time that I’m walking around by listening to some good podcast audios.
First I deleted all my music on my phone, then I put the podcast app on the first page of my phone,
it’s been going pretty well, because all the channels that I’m subscribed to has new updates every day,
so I have plenty stuff to listen to.
The way I document will be screen shots..
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Team: Kate, Marco, Enayet
Inspiration:
Games are a fun and interactive way to engage users and therefore provide a good platform to change users behaviour. By engaging them in a game in an everyday activity where they are usually not paying attention we force them to question their own actions and can encourage them to break their everyday routine. Check out these two examples from The Fun Theory:
Game Concept:
People already like to do basketball shots with their garbage into the trash can. We will take this concept and turn it into a full on game to encourage people to throw their recycling into the recycling bin instead of the trash can.
The score board will show two teams: the garbage team and the recycle team. Everytime someone interacts with the game the recycle team will get more points, and every time someone throws something in the garbage the garbage team will get points. These will be displayed on a score board.
Technical Specs :
1) LED screen : Used to reflect the score detailing
– LED Matrix, Output in the form of a score (numbers) to reflect each players score.
2) Hoop Sensor : Used to sense the motion of recycled waste that passes through the hoop.
– IR Motion sensor, attached to the inside of the hoop and calibrated appropriately to sense when paper is thrown in.
3) Sound Outputs : Used to make sounds when user scores
– Piezo buzzer, makes a melody when someone scores
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With a new sketch, create a function called “motionRead” which takes in two integers: pin and wait and returns an integer. In loop, use this new function (wait=1000) and print the return value to the serial out.
2 sec to sense
11 sec to stop sensing
Phase 2: (in loop)
add to setup:
pinMode(motionLedPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(armedLedPin, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite (armedLedPin, HIGH);
Phase 2.5
The other should reflect the “armed” state of the device. It should normally be on but turn off immediately when the sensor is triggered. It will delay the appropriate number of seconds until the device is in a rearmed state then re-light.
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Phase 3
Include everything currently in loop() in an if(true) statement.
This will obviously still run it every loop. (to be fixed later)
Declare a global integer above tick() called “pace” and initialize it to 500.
In tick(), print “tick”
and delay “pace” ms.
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Phase 4
Remove the line which prints the result from motionRead()
Change it to an if statement that calls winFunction() if the result is true, and calls failFunction() if not.
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Phase 5 and 6: Adding random and setting up two potentiometers, one that controls pace and one that controls how easy the game is by regulating the wait function.
What are the devices pros/cons?
How could this be creatively applied to other projects?
The PIR sensor needs to have total stillness in front of it. Otherswise is will feel movement, even if it is not you interacting with it. or just by holding it the part that has no sensor. It also takes a long time to reset.
It could be used for the trash bin project for example, for sensing if there is something thrown into it. But it seems to be not very long range. Some store in China use it at the front door, when anyone walks in they will play the audio track “Welcome!”
I did this project with Kim. With Kate joining us in the last phases.
