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Ernest Edmonds’ work titled “Art, Interaction, and Engagement” describes the different categories of interactive art, and outlines the aspects that make interactive projects successful. Edmonds says, “The challenge is to provide just enough attracting and sustaining engagement to draw the audience in, but not so much as to induce boredom” (12). Over my time in… Read more Final Project: Research and Preparatory Analysis

Document your work on your blog. Start by uploading the image you chose, and add a description of why you chose this image. Then, discuss what you wanted to draw in Processing and your method of achieving that goal. Consider how your final creation is linked to the motif, and in what ways it is… Read more Interacton Lab 007 Recitation 5: Processing Basics

  CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE: For my group project, I assembled the Weather Pod – a shower filled with lush greenery, LED screens, and simulated weather. This project had one main problem – that it was extremely unclear to the user how to work the pod. For this project, I wanted to make sure that the… Read more Meow Box – Derek Eng – Rudy

For this recitation, we were tasked with making a higher-voltage drawing machine using a stepper motor and a potentiometer. In order to create the circuit, we needed to use an H-bridge, a component that sends current in two directions, enabling the stepper motor to turn both clockwise and counter-clockwise. Another notable piece of this circuit… Read more Interaction Lab 007 Recitation 4: Drawing Machines

For my sensor, I chose the joystick sensor. The joystick sensor is essentially two potentiometers on the X and Y axis, with the middle having a single push button.  Since the joystick has three separate areas of input, it requires three sets of wires. I connected every set’s power and ground to the breadboard where… Read more Interaction Lab 007 Recitation 3: Sensors

First, write about the idea your group focused on that fulfills the assigned criteria. Explain precisely how what your group invented derives from, responds to or relates, in some significant manner, to the established form of interaction you identified in your research of the two projects in the RESEARCH phase of the project. Provide idea… Read more Recitation – Group Research Project – Reflect

For this recitation we received our new Arduino kits and used them to build 3 new circuits. For my first circuit, I build a light that faded in and out of brightness. I connected the Arduino to my computer to give it power, then used the power out on it to power the bar on… Read more Recitation 2: Arduino Basics

Folding Beijing:  In second space, we see one of the roommates using some sort of virtual reality technology. However the experience seems essentially the same to our current VR – with just more immersive visuals and audio. I think that this concept could be taken further and turned into a fully immersive virtual reality experience.… Read more Interaction Artifacts in Fiction

Interaction is given many definitions. Because of the expansive nature of the English language, the word has broadened to mean a multitude of things. For example, one definition by Chris Crawford is “a cyclic process in which two actors alternately listen, think, and speak” while another by the Oxford English dictionary is “reciprocal action or… Read more Defining Interaction

We built 3 different circuits in addition to soldering wires to a button. My group first soldered wires onto a button. First, we used pliers to strip the plastic covering off of the wires, exposing the metal core. Next, we each took a wire and used the helping hands to hold it in place inside… Read more Interaction Lab 007 Recitation 1: Electronics & Soldering by Derek Eng