Team

Doris(Yunqi) Dong, Cheer Chen

Basic Concept

An interactive device about experiencing poem/text like leaves falling in autumn and playing with them on screen.

Process - Week 7

Brainstorm

• Concept Presentation
  • Human pass by the device and brings a gust that blow texts.
  • Body movement can raise texts like raise leaves on the ground, resonating playing with leaves in the childhood.
  • Use vocal detection instead of body movement detection.
• Device Build
  • Use microphone to detect sound to change text's motion.
  • Use IR distance sensor to detect human approach and/or combine Two IR distance sensors to detect arms' movement.
  • Use asynchronous serial communication skills and call-and-response to control data flow to avoid sensor's noise.
  • Install on a larger screen.
• User experience design
  • Human's walking speed test
  • How to get attention before human approach to the screen
  • What user behaviors are allowed
• Poem selection: Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley, that talks about the west wind as a force of death and decay, and the incoming rejuvenation and rebirth.

Test Sharp IR sensor

#include <SharpIR.h>

SharpIR IR1(SharpIR::GP2Y0A02YK0F, A0);  //distance range 20-150cm
int distance1;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
 distance1 = IR1.getDistance();
 Serial.println(distance1);
 delay(30);
}

Process - Week 8

Movement Detection

• Use IR distance sensor to detect if human stand in front of the screen (failed)
  • Two IR sensor detective arm movement: one at the bottom of the screen, one at the middle of the screen.
• Use the camera with poseNet (thanks for Tom's suggestion)

P5 Visualization