This is the link of my final project:
http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yl6999/FinalProject/know
The project is about the uncertainties of stories. When the viewers see the series of texts, they would form a story in their mind. What is their relationship with the messenger? Perhaps they were strangers, classmates, friends, lovers. What do those texts indicate? What do those intervals indicate? What is to be presumed and what is not? What have they became after the texts end? Did anything happen before the first “Hi”? Did anything happen after? Have they ever met? The story could have millions of versions in millions of minds. This uncertainty is intrinsic in the form of text. We may never know the true thought behind a text message. What was the person thinking of when typing? What was the imagined tone? Where did it happen? When? Under what circumstances? The second part of the project intend to address these various possibilities. When the user hovers on a light-ball, it would play the sound of either a person saying the phrase in different tones, or various environmental sounds: on the shuttle bus, in class, at dinner, typing, rainning, wind-blowing, traffic or people talking. If the user hovers over different light-balls relatively fast, the sounds would over-lapse with each other and create a very fascinating effect. The environmental sound would be the background of the speaking voice, and one can imagine the messenger in the classroom, on the road or perhaps listening to the rain or the wind.