Week 10 - Sketch 3

This week, we got into our groups (Drew, Kath, Nabil, Kay and me) and discussed some ideas for Sketch 3.

Over the week, we brainstormed and thought about quite a few ideas, but none that stood out or was feasible in the time we were given.

A few ideas were:

1. Interactive Lamp
2. Interactive Heart Rate Monitor where a heart shaped led would blink and tell you the rate your heart is going.
3. An environmental interface where people can interactive with. There is a physical object aspect and a spacial environment aspect where the participant triggers the things on the screen and guides it towards the 3D object.

We discussed a lot of these ideas in class with Jinsil and Greg. However, as we continued to brainstorm, we reached a decision and gave them a finalized idea of an Air Guitar.

The invisible guitar is an abstracted version of a guitar. The user will put on gloves with various sensors embedded in them and be able to play as if they are holding a real guitar. The user will be able to select a combination of three notes multiplied by a frequency. They then will be able to choose a volume to play at. The notes are selected through the bending of the index, middle and ring ngers on the left hand. The pitch of the notes will be based on how far out they hold their left hand and the volume will be controlled by how fast the user strums their right hand. The sensors needed will be 3 bend sensors, a proximity sensor and an accelerometer. The gloves will then be plugged into an arduino board which leads to Max/MSP where the sounds are generated and played. Through the invisible guitar the user will be able to generate their own sounds and songs with relative ease.

We have created a final project plan that can be found here:
http://www.sfu.ca/~ach3/finalprojectplan.pdf