Week 2
Processing
My task for this week was to have a small experiment with Processing. After looking around and looking at a lot of examples, I decided to have a go. I decided that to start I would experiment with writing my initials. This went well so I decided to try add some more complicated coding. I added some fills and as you moved the cursor the cursor would change the colour as you moved the cursor across the screen.
This is the example I have come up with. My initials with a colour fill that changes as the cursor moves across the page. I also managed to experiment with coding in an image.
As for the coding I have done I have tried to take an aspect of my logo and adapt it to my coding. The area i have taken is my name and the colour aspect. I have a wide variety of interests and I like to have a wide variety of skills. The colour aspect of this coding represents how I like to have a broad knowledge of skills this is the same as the puzzle piece in my existing logo.
I have added some more content into my coding so that it is a bit more complicated. I have added some moving pieces to the piece so that it shows a reveal of my initials. For the moment I have removed the colour however I still have a gradient, white to black as you move the cursor over the screen.
READING
Gaver, W. et al. 2007. Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home File
- field trials appear essential in the development of domestic technologies because the values that characterise them are different to those in the studio. This means that products are developed better when they are tested in a homely environment. This meaning testing in a house or a test subject that appears as a house is far better than imagining problems in other areas.
- the presence of researchers could be off putting by some people meaning that their natural behaviour may change as a result to this.
- ‘Ludic’ this term translates to playful creatures
- This is the way of play — our curiosity, exploration, inventiveness and wonder.
- We do not play to achieve a goal, but rather because the process itself is inherently rewarding.
- can technologies be designed to support the ludic engagement? These designs must offer situations and resources that people can appropriate themselves, through their own actions and interpretations. Let the users imagination be the key to the outcome. Let the user create what is wnated to be created instead of the creator taking this away from the user. The creator can give the user the tools it is up to the user what is to be achieved with such tools. This could be a very intercative way for a user to use technologies.
- ‘The Drift Table’ — to change the motion and height of the table depends on the load that is bearing on top of the table. Low noise fans were used to keep the table from creating lots of noise as it was important to the designers that this product wasnt to appear technical.
- ‘The History Tablecloth’ — when objects are left on the table there are sensors that create a halo which increases over time. Once the load is lifted the ring slowly disappears again. This was a very interesting concept for me as it could potentially be something that could help the world. A lot of people including myself seem to buy things use them a couple of times and then leave then lying collecting dust but what if this was in your house and it created a light and a small sound that made you aware that you needed to do something hether it was pick it up or maybe make you use it. This, in our current state, in a global pandemic, are forgetting to do lots of things. With many people working from home and not getting to do as much as we maybe would normally do or becoming lazier than normal, what if this device was introduced what would this product make you think?
I really enjoyed reading this section of the paper as I found that this sort of design could be extremely useful and adaptable to many things.
