{"id":365,"date":"2010-10-29T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-06-23T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:27:29","slug":"materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/HULL2010\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmedialabs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mouse.jpg\" alt=\"mouse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thinking on the week its been amazing to be given the freedom to play with all kinds of materials and to remember that wandering round markets is where i love doing research; so thanks Hull for your wonderful pet shops, joke shops and Butchers stalls.<\/p>\n<p>Markets help you really connect to the city your in; it&#8217;s a clich\u00e9 but true!<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention about the placement of touch screens; im really frustrated by the standard kiosk presentation format, so i think the apple box idea is just a model for me to start thinking of ways round it.<\/p>\n<p>Generally Im excited by the potential of physical computing and love stuff that is visceral and physically present somehow; touch screens are the tip of the iceberg in a sense but their sensitivity and ability to allow delicate (to a degree) interaction with the visual is something I want to develop on.<\/p>\n<p>But whats exciting for me is using these screens as one part of a strategy to control and engage with an image and then influence real physical objects<\/p>\n<p>Thinking on my own healthcare projects here&#8217;s my tech wishlist for health centre art<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robotic Gardening &#8211; use a touch screen or BlobDetection to water plants in an external courtyard with a robotic arm<\/li>\n<li>networked garden, visualising and browsing garden data feeds with touch screens bring living data into a healthcare setting, monitor and touch and &#8216;look after&#8217; a garden in parrallel to the health centre doing the same for you<\/li>\n<li>Touch screen artwork using objects to modify outdoor\/courtyard lighting, motorised trees, robotic arms, trigger real bells in a local landmark or water rooftop plants; interact with imagery to generate action at a distance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also thought of a HobDetection add on for the OpenCV library \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16315626&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16315626&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16315626\">Untitled<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user583557\">Ross Dalziel<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apples trigger stereo audio recordings of the local clock tower bells to signify realtime physical triggerring via a couple of arduino ethernet and XBEE shields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking on the week its been amazing to be given the freedom to play with all kinds of materials and to remember that wandering round markets is where i love doing research; so thanks Hull for your wonderful pet shops, joke shops and Butchers stalls. 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