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Major Studio Final by Jessica Floeh

co n ceptA social experiment with pseudoscientific technology that strives to investigate the effectiveness of a perceived biofeedback interface and its impact on perception of self.

pr eceden t s-Saoirse Higgins : r>emote

-Biometric sensor (GSR) feeds data into digital space

-Interprets emotional level

-Responds according to mood and inner energy

-Ambience of space changes based on response

pr eceden t s-Saoirse Higgins & Ian Gwitt: mFish

-Digital interpretation of physical object, The Fortune Telling Fish

-Projection of fish changes shape when hand disrupts the projection.

-“Responds digitally to our human energy”

-“Responds to mood of participant”

pr eceden t s-Bill Gaver : Home Health Monitor -Various sensors attached to household objects, such as a couch, door or hairbrush monitoring peoples’ activity.

-Based on the data from these sensors, a monitor displays

a horoscope for the house.

-Gives feedback about

home’s emotional, social

and spiritual health.

pr eceden t s-Lisa Stead : Emotional Wardrobe

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-Stimulates emotional response.

-Changes color in response to emotions

of the wearer or presence of a viewer.

-Uses body sensors, translates an

inferred change in emotional state.

-LEDs create various patterns of color.

pr o t o t ype-Multi-color LED interface connected to fake biometric sensor.

pr o t o t ype-Participant was asked to put on finger sensor.

-I pressed a red button, this cycled through every color of

the multi-color LED for 20 seconds.

-One color would hold after this point.

-I interpreted the color as

personality type.

-It was a believable interface,

but the interpretation was not.

-Interaction with the button

made it less legitimate.

pr o t o t ype-This interface was too serious and sterile. Required a more

specific and sterile environment.

-I wanted to have something with less wires, something

less threatening…

Mo o dy-An energy interpreter.

-If it likes your energy, it will cycle through its colors and pick your mood color.

-You must hold it gently

and place your thumbs

on its eyes.

-If it doesn’t like your energy,

it will act strange; pick random

colors at random times.

Mo o dy-Energy is determined by the color that Moody finally decides on.

-Moody doesn’t waste time on people with bad energy.

-I interpret for Moody, since he can only communicate

through light.

audi en ce-Twenty-somethings.

-People in social situations (at bars, parties, etc) trying to meet people with good energy.

-People who lack confidence in their perception of self and others.

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