2. Index
Introduction 3
Generating a concept 3
Final concept descr. 5
Contruction 6
Design 8
Implementation 10
Prduction/Scrum 11
Conclusion 12
Group name SwidSchuMart
Members Sofia Swidarovicz (Technician)
Eva Schulenberg (Producer)
Emiliano Martínez (Designer)
Project Phidget artifact
Phidget 1127 Precision light sensor
Project name Wake-up call
Professor Emiliano Labrador
Ruiz de la Hermosa
Subject Design, Art and Creativity
Master 2010-2011 Multimedia
Creation, Design and Engineering
Institution BES La Salle
Universitat Ramon Llull
Date December 9th 2010
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3. Introduction
For this artifact project we used sign of the proj-
the 1127 precision light sensor ect. This means
Phidget. what exactly we
This sensor is able to measure going to use to
light intensity in the range from 1 realize our idea.
lux (Moonlight) to 1000 lux (TV stu- Also is specified
dio lightning). how we put ev-
erything togeth-
In this paper you will find firstly an er and do the
explanation of our process of gen- implementation
erating a concept idea in which we on the street. In the last chapter is 1127 Precision
could use the sensor. Following written down how we planed and light sensor
you will see a description of the de- used our time for this project. Phidget
Generating
a Concept
The process for finding our idea this guy and get your redemption!”
was not easy. We thought for a but we felt it was a bit too hard on a
week about different ideas and did certain bealives.
a lot of meetings without a clear
concept to develop. Interactive Sounds
We thought we could use the sen-
Cheap Redemtion sor’s output connected to sounds.
One of our ideas was to create a If we had different shadows we
kind of artistic critique to catholi- would listen to different sounds,
sism and the church usisng a Je- but it seamed too simple so we
sus figure and adding some mes- thought about a new idea based
sages like aggresive advertising on the concept that the world is not
like “Free Salvation Now” or “Kill longer just black and white.
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4. How does Clothes light reflexion change in combination of touching
light sound? We wanted to bring the reflection of the additional touch-sensor.
clothes of the people in connection
Nothing is to our sensor. The artifact would be 3. People could play with a flash-
like it seems. in front of a wall but with enough light. Depending on the intensity of
space that people could walk be- the light, images would change.
Everything can tween our construction and the
make a sound, wall. The construction would make With these ideas we had a good
even light. a sound all the time. Depending on base to go ahead in the process
the light reflection of the clothes of finding an idea. But we were still
Welcome to the sound would change. For ex- not really happy about them. So on
the world! ample if the person was wearing the next day we meet for another
dark clothes, there would be little brainstorming meeting and were
reflection so he/her would listen thinking about what exactly we
to a smooth sound from a piano. want show with our construction.
In the case of a person wearing So we put down four sentences:
lighter clothes the reflexion would
be higher so he/she would hear a 1. How does the light sound?
different sound like, for example, a 2. Nothing is like it seems
flute. In this time of the process we 3. Everything can make a sound,
were thinking to ad also another even light
Phidget sensor with wich people 4. Welcome to the world!
could influence the music output,
for example a circular or a linear “How does the light sound?” we
touch. But still we were not totally thought in using music in different
happy with this idea, we had an- levels connecting to the light lev-
other brainstorm meeting. On this el. A sound “beep” goes upper or
meeting we came to three general lower, depends of the light reflec-
ideas: tion. Something is in front of the
light and if it’s moving, the sound
1. The same idea but changing the would change. For “Welcome to
connected music: light clothes bring the world!” we want to put the sen-
angelic music out and dark clothes, sor in a box together with a screen.
heavy metal music with several If someone open the box on the
variation in between. So we want screen will shown a sentence which
use the sensor like a sound mirror. bring the people to look around
and notice their environment. Af-
2. Based on the idea from rockola. ter another brainstorm meeting, on
fm, bring the outputs on a screen which we were focused on the forth
in different colors. The intensity sentence, we got finally the follow-
and the size of the output would ing general idea:
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5. Final Concept
Description
Wake-up Call
Welcome to the World!
We have a box which makes al-
ways a sound so that people look
at the box. Maybe just a noise or
something as “open me”. If some-
one opens the box, the sound
would change to “Welcome to the
world!”. On a screen different sen-
tences would be shown. The sen-
tences would change in connec-
tion to the different light values. To
make clear what we want transmit
with this box, inside people could - Enjoy the path Brainstorming
find a graphic and a flyer to take - Now you’re definitely enjoying meeting on the
which explains our thought: People - You’re opened to the world 27.11.2010
walking around looking down not because you’re curious
interested in the rest of the world - Destiny is the path
around them or in other people. - You look around, you’re
If they hear the sound they would interested in the world
probably feel curious and they - You’re not alone
would feel that they need to open - Don’t be afraid to share life
the box... at the end they are back
in the world. A part we couldn’t implement was
the idea of including a live image of
Part of the communication was to the person interacting using a web-
send messages to people interact- cam but because of some problem
ing with different sentences shown connecting to the code, we decide
at the screen: to use just the simple idea.
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6. Construction
With our proj- is more to it, something behind it.
ect we wanted This is the base of our idea, the
to make people people should look behind normal
look around and things.
see not only
their own path So we choose a normal cardboard
but also the box which we found on the street.
path from oth- We decided that the box should
er people. We keep its normal looking aspect,
wanted to get that the people will think this is just
them curious. a normal box.
For this reason
we could have We change just the high of the box,
the possibility to so that people can open it easily.
use something To make the people interested in
Original card- really outstanding which would get the box, we recorded a voice say-
board box the attention from the people re- ing “open me”. This sound is play-
found on the ally easily. But we thought it would ing all the time when the box is
street be better to use something normal closed. We put also a sign on top
and when the people come closer of the box with “open me” frase to
they would recognize that this is make it more clear for people that
not something normal, that there they should really open the box.
Desired look
and feel effect
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7. Inside the box we have a laptop, work right
the base of the phidgets and the because
sensor itself. All this things are there were
standing on another cardboard like not enogh
a table inside the box to make it light pass-
stable and bring the screen near ing by so we
the person. had to sit it on The
top. We used the lap- box as
The Sensor is connected with a top not only to program it looked
base and this to the laptop via usb the phidgets, what we did like finally
connection. To protect the laptop with java, but also to play the assembled
and surprise with a different clean sounds and show the sentences.
look we used two smoked acrylic
pieces. One over the screen and To make the sentences much clos-
the other over the keyboard. At first er to our project aesthetics we putt-
we wanter to hide the sensor un- ed the sentences over a scanned
der the acrylic board but it didn’t cardboard image.
A couple of ex-
amples of the
sentences with
the project
aesthetics
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8. The aesthetics ple and bringing the alarm clock
of the project out of it.
were very im-
portant since the Slogan
message was The sentece “Welcome to the
not 100% clear. World!” in a big Helvetica Black Ex-
We generated tended rounds the final message.
some graphic
elements that Composition
Flyer design would transmit the message and The whole effect of the elements
with all the the general idea. We decided to transmits the message because it
general graph- use the carboard look of the box as has a story to tell. We kept the col-
ic elements the base for the elements. ors simple for the interacting real
people to bring their own.
Elements
All elements where kept simple in Pieces
line art for a fast reading and in With this composition in mind we
black with a percentage of white to designed a flyer, a poster with in-
bring up the logo and the surpriced formation on the place and date
person. of the event, several screens with
sentences and a special piece to
The logo put behind the acrylic by the screen
It resembles a ringing alarm clock of the laptop.
with the sphere being the world to
wich i’m being welcomed. Integrat- The rest inside the box, which the
ed with the name of the project in a people can see, we colored in
round shape. black that the people keep focused
on the screen and
Persons the graphic. Togeth-
Walking people showing diferent er with the graph-
additudes, one that walks looking ic and the screen
down minding his own, one who’s we record also a
attention is being drawned to a dox sound “welcome to
and the third one that’s surpriced the world” which is
and happy. playing all the time
when the box is
The Box open. With this three
a simplified symbol of the artifact things (sentence on
the screen, graphic
The arrows and sound) we want
Help putting movement to the peo- to give our idea to
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9. Design
Poster design
the people that
after they open
the box they
changed a bit
because they
are interested
in things stand-
ing around and
looking with a
different point
of view. After
looking in the
box they can go
their path with
the head up and
enjoying life.
Our project can
be used from
every person in
every age but
to understand
the complete
messages be-
hind you have
to reach an age
where you can
combine a bit
more the things
and you already
know some-
thing about
live. So for chil-
dren is this box
maybe interest-
ing because
of the sounds
and sentences
changing but
not because of
the message
behind.
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10. Implementation
We wanted to use our artifact
on a public place were there
where coming a lot people but
not too many. So we decided to
use it in front of Palau Robert at
the Passeig de Gràcia 107 on
Saturday the 4th of December
at 4 pm.
We choose this day and time
because we were thinking that
a lot of people are walking on
this street to make their Christ-
mas shopping tour.
First we had to calibrate the
Users interacting sensor with the code, because
the day before we were in a
room to choose the different
values when exactly an image
should change. But the light on
the day time and on the street
is different so we had to figure
out the new values. After that,
we put the box next to the wall
of the building and just step
back to see if the people are in-
terested in the box. Actually the
people were more interested in
the box when we were calibrat-
ing the values. But a few peo-
ple were looking, stopping and
some of them open the box.
Sometimes we were going to
the people and ask them if they
understood the whole idea and
more or less they did. So we
could catch some people with
our idea. And we hope they
now enjoying their path.
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11. Production
Scrum
First of all we had to find out what meet on the 24th in the dome and
we want to do and which phidgets Sofia should connect with us via
we want to use. So the first week Skype for a brainstorming. But this
was a bit difficult to meet in real be- wasn’t completly succesfull again
cause Sofia was sick. So we decide so we talk on Thursday the 25th
to do the meetings via Skype. The with the product owner/client and
first meeting was on the 19.11.2010 with his help we found finally the
with 30 minutes and we just decide general idea.
to use the light sensor and the pro-
files. So Sofia is the technician, On Saturday the 27th Sofia was
Emiliano the designer and Eva the able to come back at the dome, so
Scrum Master. we had another brainstorm meet-
ing to get our idea developed. Until
We had two more dailymeetings on this day we couldn’t use really the
the 21st and 22nd via Skype were idea of scrum with the backlog and
we talked about how far everyone sprint plans. But from this point we
came with finding ideas. But we were using it. So we defined the dif-
had problems to find something so ferent things to do and wrote down
we decided that Emiliano and Eva how we where to work:
Job Job subdivision Hours Doing by Status Done until Product
1. Programming the phidgets 16 Sofia 03/12/2010
1.1 Find out if we can use webcam for the additional idea 2 Sofia doing 30/11/2010 Backlog
1.2 Connect the light sensor with the sound 5 Sofia doing 03/11/2010
27.11 - 04.12
1.3 Connect the light sensor with the images 9 Sofia doing 30/11/2010
2. Construct the box 6 Emiliano 03/12/2010
2.1 How does the box look outside and inside 5 Emiliano doing 03/12/2010
2.2 Which sentence we want to use/ How many we want to use 1 Emiliano doing 03/12/2010
3. Put the box and the phidgets together 5 all doing 03/12/2010
4. Use the box on the street 1 all to do 04/12/2010
5. Poster 5 Eva to do 06/12/2010
5.1 Name of the group and project 1 all done 27.11.2010 27/11/2010
5.2 Logo 2 Eva to do 06/12/2010
5.3 Place and time for using the box 0.5 Eva to do 03/12/2010
6. Video 16 Eva 08/12/2010
6.1 Storyboard 1 Eva doing 30/11/2010
6.2 Text of explination the project 1 Eva to do 03/12/2010
6.3 Recording 2 Eva to do 04/12/2010
6.4 Editing 10 Eva to do 06/12/2010
6.5 Reediting 2 Eva to do 08/12/2010
7. Memory 6 Eva to do 08/12/2010
8. Presentation 6 all 08/12/2010
8.1 Design 4 Emiliano todo 08/12/2010
8.2 Content 2 all to do 08/12/2010
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12. Job Job subdivision Hours Doing by Status Done until Product
1. Programming the phidgets 16 Sofia done 30.12.2010 03/12/2010
1.1 Find out if we can use webcam for the additional idea 2 Sofia done 30.11.2010 30/11/2010 Backlog
1.2 Connect the light sensor with the sound 5 Sofia done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010 04.12 - 09.12
1.3 Connect the light sensor with the images 9 Sofia done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010
(changes in
2. Construct the box 6 Emiliano done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010
2.1 How does the box look outside and inside 5 Emiliano done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010
red)
2.2 Which sentence we want to use/ How many we want to use 1 Emiliano done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010
3. Put the box and the phidgets together 5 all done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010
4. Use the box on the street 1 all done 04.12.2010 04/12/2010
5. Poster 5 Emiliano done 03.12.2010 06/12/2010
5.1 Name of the group and project 1 all done 27.11.2010 27/11/2010
5.2 Logo 2 Emiliano done 03.12.2010 06/12/2010
5.3 Place and time for using the box 0.5 all done 04.12.2010 03/12/2010
6. Video 16 Eva done 08.12.2010 08/12/2010
6.1 Storyboard 1 Eva done 03.12.2010 30/11/2010
6.2 Text of explination the project 1 Emiliano done 03.12.2010 03/12/2010
6.3 Recording 2 Eva done 04.12.2010 04/12/2010
6.4 Editing 10 Eva done 07.12.2010 06/12/2010
6.5 Reediting 2 Eva done 08.12.2010 08/12/2010
7. Memory 6 Eva/Emiliano done 08.12.2010 08/12/2010
8. Presentation 6 all 08/12/2010
8.1 Design 4 Emiliano done 08.12.2010 08/12/2010
8.2 Content 2 all done 08.12.2010 08/12/2010
On the base of this backlog we daily meeting to see early enough
could start with the work. And we if there some problems appear. Fi-
could hold nearly every deadline. nally we can say, to use SCRUM in
our project is good to see what all
Only the responsible person of we have to do and how much time
some jobs is changed. But this you we have left for it. Also to see how
can see on the different backlogs. the different jobs are separated be-
Also we tried to have every day the tween three of us.
Conclusion
For summary it can be said that the project in general was a good experi-
ence. We got finally the idea, which we all liked. And it was successful.
Not all people were interested in our idea, but those who opened the box
where really interested and could understand our idea.
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