Notes: Prototyping for Interaction design
Citlali Hernandez, Lina Bautista (Linalab on youtube)
Physical prototyping with computation, body sensing, performance art
what is the body?
medium or tool for expression, topic of research
body- individual, political, social
metonimia del cuerpo- citlali project
the body as a social construction- how do we shape our bodies in a hyperconnected society
[(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧](https://www.transceptor.cam/)
remedios zafra - a connected room
small dataset - emotion recognition
Affective Computing
Feelings play an important role in our relations with other people but also in the way we use computers.
Affective Computing is a domain that focuses on user emotions while they interact with computers and applications.
An emotional state of a person may influence on the way he/she interacts with a system, therefore affective computing vision helps to recognize and influence human emotions in order to enhance effectiveness of working with computers.
Emotions
Emotion: A reaction to stimuli that lasts for seconds or minutes.
Mood: An emotional state that lasts for hours or days.
Personality: Inclination to feel certain emotions.
What makes us emotional?
- A physical event
- A social interaction
- Remembering or imagining an event
Talking about, thinking about, or physically reenacting a past emotional experience
atlas of emotions
emotion detection to quantify emotions, to make machine human empathetic, to explore artistic exploration possibilities
at the end the quantifying emotions is just to contrast data
ose protocol - communicating with machines
wekinator: uses ose data
change integer and ratio- float
train w many faces
have many values
interaction: reciprocal action, mutual influence
languages of interaction: materiality, computers, microcontrollers
Bill Verplank: how do you know, feel, do what you’re doing
I liked viewing the body as a source of data and generating meaningful or random values by placing various sensors and readers to create different types of outputs. The practice gives a language to the body and shows that the language spoken can be understood by taking the right data, and I find that fascinating. I would love to explore ways of understanding the body, as I believe that the female body is a severely misrepresented and understudied field.
Using sensors like this and data to create art and installations would be a great way to create awareness on the gaps in knowledge about women and their bodies and to create meaningful experiences for empathy building and for education.