Category: Interaction Lab

Midterm Project Individual Reflection By Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)    Date: 3/23/2021 I. Brief Introduction      Project Name: Do you want candy?       Co-designer: Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)       Instructor: Eric Here are the overview picture and the video of our project   II. Context and Significance Group Project helped me to get a better … Continue reading Midterm Project Individual Reflection

Recitation 4 — Drawing Machine By Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)   Date: 3/18/2021 I. Drawing Machine Step 1: Build the circuit to rotate smoothly Step 2: Control rotation with a potentiometer Step 3: Build a Drawing Machine Final works:   II. Question 1. The machine that I’m interested in building is a kind of artifact that can … Continue reading Documentation– Recitation 4

Documentation for Recitation 3 By Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)   Date:3/9/2021 CIRCUIT During the recitation, I tried the joystick module. At first, it seems to be difficult to connect the joystick, but, with the help of the Professor, I finally got a complete understanding of it. In all, there are three outputs, one output for the x-axis, … Continue reading Documentation–Recitation 3

Reflection on the Group Project BY Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)   Date: 3/1/2021 I. Biome Simulation Chamber The main concept of the Biome Simulation Chamber Based on the science fiction “Newton’s Sleep”, we made a project called “Biome Simulation Chamber”, the advanced Earth stimulators, which can display hundreds of different sceneries of the Earth. Unlike the VR, … Continue reading Reflection on the Group Project

Recitation Two By Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)  Date: 2/9/2021 CIRCUITS: I. Fade It seems to be a simple circuit to build, however, I didn’t succeed to make it work at first. With the help of the instructor, I found that I didn’t select the port of Arduino Uno at the tool window. After I corrected my … Continue reading Documentation–Recitation 2

I. Folding Beijing After reading this fiction, the interactive artifact that I want to invent is called the “company system”. In this story, I find that the main character Lao Dao was facing a serious problem of his adopted daughter’s education under the pressure of power and money. Therefore, I come up with the idea … Continue reading IMAGINARY INTERACTIVE ARTIFACTS

Definition of Interaction By Mia Cai    Date: 2021/2/3         After reading the readings “The Art of Interactive Design” by Crawford, “Language of New Media” by Lev Manovich, and “Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen’ by Tom Igoe, I got more understanding of interaction, and gained my … Continue reading Research Documentation

The Process of Building the Circuits CIRCUIT 1: DOORBELL By trying for completing this circuit three times, my partner and I finally made it work well. In this circuit, we used many components. Breadboard and wires were necessary components in this circuit in order to connect each component together. There’s also a voltage regulator that … Continue reading Recitation 006 — Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)