Examples of tangible interactions: Squeezing, hugging, compressing, restraining, throwing, pushing, pulling, shaking, rolling, stretching, pressing, holding, tilting, vibrating, echos, slamming, purposeful pausing/silence.
Ideas that were brainstormed and further thought out was the idea of a Cyborg type arm that can throw an invisible ball and hit someone on the back to get their attention in a silent and invisible format of communication. Another idea was an interactive Voodoo Doll Jacket that would consist of sensitized and compressing foam and wires in synchronicity. Also, the idea that a simple vibrating wire/tapping wire on metal over a 10m space could be utilized in a shopkeeping environment to let the shopkeeper know when someone has entered their store. Finally, a Sound locating device that picks up and gauges frequencies and echoes to define and direct where the sound has originated from, so that you can then go locate the person making that sound.
Materials included: string, wire, copper, sheet metal, fabrics, plastics, rulers, rubbers, foam, tubes, cardboard, wires, glue, tape, casts, memory wire, ballistics gel etc.
Summary of Class: These ideas were generated with the notion of communicating a message without utilizing verbal or symbolic means. As a group we agreed that interaction design would consist of a fairly universal understanding of certain messages such as "hi" "over here!" "look! (at this)" "I like (or love) you" "I'm so angry" "thanks" etc. This group consensus allowed the ideas to be based around fairly universal understandings of gestures and actions that usually or can be used to help communicate a verbal or symbolic meaning from one person to the next. This helped move the ideas into the field of designing an actual product to communicate theses messages via interaction designing, obviously utilizing current technology aspects of the product design processes (R&D aspects and the knowledge gained from previous study assisted in forming semi-realistic ideas that pertained a certain level of future development and overall potential).
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