Week 3 - Final Decision

Final Decision

After our discussion from last week, we found that there were lots of obstacles to achieve our original goal. If we want two dancers to interact with each other, we will need the wireless touch sensor which might be expensive to us. So, we had to change our plan (Organized by Vivian):

Concept

An interactive costume that responds to varying types of touch and posture with matching moods of procedurally generated music and imagery.​

End Product

A performance art piece in which the costume wearer exists passively in the exhibition space while audience members are encouraged to touch and puppeteer them.​

Themes

Intimacy and discomfort; touch as a creative medium; unusual interface design; wearables and tangible media.

After work

For this week's work, we distributed into 3 groups again. We decided to use Motion Capture to create some visual effects as the music was created, we also wanted to combine the touch sensor and the wearable stuff, so we had two different groups working on these two topics, they also needed to contact the relative professors. I'm in the End-Project showcase group, so I took a look at the Motion Capture Lab with my partner and created my own imagination of how the audience interacts with the person who will wear our product.

Next Week

We are going to physically start building up on this project.

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