So, I attached two pieces of fabric on a wristband, and I used a lilypad and 300k as resistor.

And this is another image to show how my data represented for now, and how it changes…

Here are 2 videos from my prototype. One with using fingers, one with using wrist. I was taking rapid breaths while I am experimenting to see the change in graph. When I take rapid breaths graph goes up, when ever I give all of my breath out, graph goes down.

http://emotionalcartography.net/
“Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists,
designers, psychogeographers,
cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought
together by Christian Nold, to
explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising
intimate biometric data and
emotional experiences using technology.”

And this is the link for the same project that maps feeling on the
geographical maps of the cities.
http://www.biomapping.net/
“Bio Mapping is revolutionary methodology and tool for visualising
people’s reactions to the external world.
When we become aware of our own and each others unique body reactions
to the environment we can create a better world!”

I will be measuring changes in body during the day, and I will be correlating this with emotional changes.  I can not estimate exact emotion, but I can say, calm, normal, anxious/stresses/anger/happy(these four are almost the same data, because Galvanic Skin Response shows change in your bodies resistance according to amount of sweating)

Problem

I realized, there are sometimes that I cannot control changes in my emotions and loose my temper. After realizing this, I start controlling myself. Whenever I realize there is a change in my emotion, I try to calm down and thing about it again. This helps me to realize if I am doing something wrong or right. So, as a start I see this thing as a screen for myself to realize my feelings and control them. As a start, I am doing this project for myself.

Later on I have different ideas to implement by using the same idea. For example, knowing what effects me in New York, or a driver feelings screen or a genre visualizer.

Sensors

I will be using galvanic skin response to see reactions of your body. You can figure out emotional changes by looking at to resistance between two points on the body. This is effected by the level of sweating.

Also, I want to use heart rate monitor, because seeing changes in the heart rate might be useful or, it might help me to figure out if the changes in galvanic skin response is because of a physical activity.

I will not be using EEG, because EEG interferes with galvanic skin response and even a little movement can effect EEG data. I am designing this product for people to wear in their daily life. So, they will be moving.

Display

I will be using some sort of abstract shapes. Using hight or graphical elements doesn’t seem so well. I am sensing if there is any change in the emotions, not exactly what you are feeling, and also cumulative data. So, using color code seems easy and meaningful for now. Or another option can be using abstract shapes like, if shape has sharp edges that means danger etc.

Private/public

If you don’t want to make this data public (let’s say you are in a grocery store), you can turn it off or unattached the screen. Another option might be having a headphone system, so, you can hear it but people cannot. So, you will be still aware of it and have a chance to change it.

Other possible scenarios

Maybe, some sort of screen for traffic. This can be for personal awareness or for public awareness.

Mapping emotional changes during a movie and instead of calling a genre for the movie calling something related to graphics or colors.

Also, even a simple eye blinking is interfering with EEG values, for my project, I will be tracking people who are moving. So, there will a lot of inference.

I was talking with another ITP student (Neil Hickey),  he worked on EEG before for his undergrad. I mentioned him that I will be using galvanic skin response with EEG. He mentioned that, galvanic skin response (GSR) would interfere with EEG also.

As a result, I will not be using EEG for my thesis, because my audience will be moving and I will be using GSR which are interfering with EEG.

Here are some images from my prototype that I made earlier..

Aim of this project it to make “Family Tracing and Reunification” faster. Most of the cases that we saw, they are using paper forms that makes everything so slow. So, we offered them to use a mobile interface to do all the recording and searching. Also, this will give them a good database, that they can also use for automated matching.

After Haiti earthquake, they caught few people trying to kidnap children from Haiti. This incident, made the development process faster. We found some volunteer developers in ThoughtWorks to work on this application, and made it open source. We are using Ruby on Rails for development.

Our first prototype is for web, and then we developed an application for BlackBerry, because BlackBerry is one of the most popular phones in the field. We are willing to develop one for Android also.

For more information about the project or if you want to involve in this, please visit www.rapidftr.com

This weeks assignment was to do some interactive show on TV (which is our web browser). Users can interact with the show by using their web browser. I worked with Sherron Hanson and Baowen Huang

We made a dreams teller program. We used flash media server to create a channel on our own web site. Then we used some ajax code to create a chat server. So, when people login to our site, they were seeing our live dreams teller show (Ms. Dreamz) and were chatting with her and asking questions by using a chat window. On top of the camera view, we displayed the name of the user and the question while Ms. Dreamz were answering it.

I think, it went pretty well. Other dream teller shows that I saw were mostly based on phone interaction. People were calling and asking about their dreams. Our version has a chat window. So, people can ask questions to Ms. Dreamz or they can discuss and talk with others by using the chat window.

We were missing some details, like we need someone to tell Ms. Dreamz that we are “on Air” now, because she was waiting a sign from us to start. It would be good if she starts telling something and welcomes people. It is good give people few minutes to start chatting, because they are waiting to see what is going on and when they understand it, they join to the show. Also, we need someone to mange our contend that we display on top of the screen and someone to give some clues about dreams to Ms. Dreamz.
]]> http://www.mustafab.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=475 0 http://www.mustafab.com/blog/?p=437 http://www.mustafab.com/blog/?p=437#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:38:02 +0000 admin http://www.mustafab.com/blog/?p=437 I made some test by using different fabrics for galvanic skin response. Che-Wei Wang has a really good processing sketch and blog post about how to use galvanic skin response with Arduino. So, I used his sketch to test my fabrics.

I am not sure about meanings of results yet, but for now, I am posting my screen shots and names of the fabrics.

RadioScreen

Canopy Mesh Fabric

Ex-Static Conductive Fabric

ESD Static Fabric

Staticot

NaturaShiled Fabric

VeilShield

CobalText

Stainless Steel Mesh Shielding Fabric

Shieldit Super

High Performance Silver Mesh Fabric

AL100 Wall Shield

Pure Copper Polyester Taffeta Fabric

ArgenMesh

Soft&Safe Shielding Fabric

Textronics Wristband (both on same wrist)

And these are the pictures from my setup:

This picture shows conductive stretch fabric on my fingers and Arduino for getting inputs from my fabrics

This picture shows two Textronics wrist band on my right wrist.

There is a video on the link. It seems a little fake now, but promising.

This project is also changing my ideas about my sensors. They are using galvanic skin response, and that totally make sense to me. Also, I am realizing how hard it is to get some good data from EEG and give it a meaning.

This week I received all my orders. I have a lot of fabrics that I need to test. But more exciting than that, I received my Textronics development kit. Kit includes small fabrics that has fabric electrodes on them. Looks very promising. I guess that will be the base of my thesis project.

Also I will be adding a audio jack to hat that I made for electrodes. Tom Igoe gave me that idea. It looks like my circuit is ok but maybe my signal processing might have issues. So he told me try to use audio input.

Also after talking with Tom Igoe, I decided to make a simple IProcessing sketch that can log my mood with time stamps. However, I couldn’t find any samples of IProcessing – database connection (they just released the IProcessing, so thats normal). However I just made a simple HTML-PHP and text file connection so I can log my mood data with time, and location very easily on my IPhone.

This is how my log file looks like. It seems pretty simple and good enough for my approach.

I am not sure which project I will be working on. I was thinking about “Dreamworks”. However they couldn’t come because of some health issues. I am kind of in between “Stan by Me” and “Mimodek”

Stand by Me, is a project that visualize plants on the facade of the building and user can interact with it by using web, mobile phones or a physical device. It requires active interaction. Alfredo (idea owner of the project) doesn’t want passive interaction with camera because he thinks that plants need some action to live and he wants to give that sense to people

Mimodek, seems interesting. They need simple motion detection which can be easily done by using. They want to track moving objects and distance between them. Then visualize it by using natural behaviours.

Also, last night Casey Reas, made a presentation about his latest works. He talked about how he develops his algorithms and not mimicking the nature. He said that when he start a project, he first writes stories and then formulate them by using “elements” and “behaviors”. Then he starts programing. He has set of rules that he implements on his projects and makes new iterations of it.

Another speaker of the first day was Victor Vina. It was a really interesting lecture. He basically showed us many projects all around the world and told us how important to be a “craft man”. Also, he mentioned that craft man focuses on small details that no one can notice and learns by experimenting in years. He has realy good ideas about simple interaction design and he understand human behaviors. His talk was really inspiring to me and reminded me things that I am missing about my thesis.

That was pretty much it for the first day.

I am very curious about this kit. It seems really promising. Adidas just bought the company which develops them, but they are still selling their kit through Adidas. I hope I will get it soon.

Silver Mesh Fabric

When you need the conductivity and shielding performance of Silver with the strength of Nylon, ArgenMesh is the material to choose. At >60 dB from 10 MHz to 40 GHz and surface conductivity of <0.5 Ohm per square this material is great for high level grounding, static discharge, electric field shielding, and radiofrequency shielding. Safe for skin contact, it can be used in garments, or bedding. Also an excellent curtain or wall covering. 55% Silver, 45% Nylon. Silver color, some light penetration. 59 inch wide. (http://www.lessemf.com/fabric.html)

I also ordered fabric sample kit from the same company. Here is the information about the kit:

ABRIC SAMPLE SET

“Get Samples of All Our Fabrics”

Can’t decide which fabric is right for your application? Want to see, feel, and test the fabrics before you decide? In this kit you get swatches of each fabric, along with specification sheets. Hook & Loop and Microwave Absorber not included in standard sampler, so if you need these, be sure to specify. (http://www.lessemf.com/fabric.html)

I hope, I can receive them until next Monday. Until I receive them, I will be playing with my hat prototype with normal electrodes.

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This is our first project for Live Experimental Interactive TV. We tried to do some live mash-up video. Our audience are texting some samples of the lyrics to our system and we display it on the video with audio. I worked with Edward Gordon(Gordie), Adam Harvey and Jeff Howard  for this project.

System has 3 different parts. First part is the TextMarks system and php code. User sends a text to TextMarks and php code saves it in a text file. Then, there is a processing application keeps checking the the text messages that user send and matches them with the ones in the song. Processing checks the text file in every half second. Then, processing application sends the keyword to Max/Msp by using OSC. Then in Max/Msp we have a video that skips to marked keyword points audio, that matches with video and also an audio part that plays under the video.

I think our work was creative and fun to play. Also it worked so well. I think some additions could be, not using a song but some other mesh-up thing that is not related to time. Also, maybe some more reflection of the user on the video would be useful.

I have been working on different types of gesture based interaction for a while. I tried cameras, buttons, range finders, bending angles etc. After having carpal tunnel syndrome on my right hand, I start reading a lot about gestural interfaces. It is really challenging to force cave men to use high tech. devices, because it is not in our nature. Because of the changes in our “tools” our body starts adopting itself to new tool.

For my thesis, I am planing to identify physiological reactions to technology. There are many things that we can research about in our body. So, I believe that some of the combinations might lead us to a better interaction.

I think best and most dangerous way to interact with devices is to use brain waves. I tried to made something called ‘what’s on your mind” last semester. It was a social network control device by using EEG data. It is really hard to calibrate EEg data for this purpose and also it is hard to see if it is a reliable data. So, that’s why I will be focusing on more reliable data.

One another reason that I am doing my thesis on this topic is, for me, inside the body and interaction is an unknown. So, I believe that exploring unconscious interaction will be meaningful.

Also, according to my findings, other way that I can go through is a t-shirt that displays your reactions to things around you. I think reason behind it, is a need of expressing myself. I like having short conversations, talking to the point. Sometimes, people are having problems to understand how my mind works. So, this might be a good device for me to get over these issues.

I believe that, in our body there are lot’s of things that we can discover for a better interaction with humans or machines. I am hoping to discover some of them through this semester.

As I said in the class, I don’t have a television as machine or cable t.v. So, I tried to watch things online or in bars.

First thing that I watched was a Turkish late night show, called Media King. During the show they have few guests, mostly actors, writers, musicians etc. and they talk about things that they are doing. Sometimes they get in to some political arguments also. They are mostly well educated people, so it is usually fun to watch it. Also they have a section that they watch some youtube videos or some parts of the shows from t.v. and make fun of the funny parts. One interesting thing about them is, they keep saying t.v. is bad for you and you shouldn’t even watch this program, which is very confusing.

Possible interactions that I can think about, people can choose the videos that they are showing by using a website, people can nominate videos and vote. Also, when guests are discussing stuff, people can join them by using chat. However, I believe that that would kill all the specialties of making a show. Also, they usually have 6 guest and lost of people in studio. So, maybe different camera options that are given to user can be helpful.

I also watched an NBA game between NY Knicks and LA Lakers, on Friday night.  I guess there is a lot to do with cameras and graphics for sports events. I guess having control on camera is a big thing. Also, visualization of data is really helpful. I think, if user can chose data to visualize or compare in some given options and choose the visualization type, can be really helpful. Having reply option is a big thing also.

These are my first explorations about interactive t.v.’s. I guess these are very simple things, but most of them still the things that we don’t have.

When I was in Turkey last month, I gave a talk in University of Economics, Izmir, about what is Interaction Design Good For?.

It was mostly about production classes in ITP, and things that I have been doing in here. They asked me to do something for lst year students. Last year students are about to start their final projects and their teachers wants them to be creative, and productive. Also, they want them to do something useful.

I think it was really helpful. Also, that was my first official talk in a college.

Here is a video of my slides. Also, thanks to my friend Gurkan Mihci for organizing this.

what is interaction design good for? from mustafa bagdatli on Vimeo.

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During summer we start building our force sensors. We were thinking about using 96 FSRs. That was so expensive so we build our own. Also we prepared a very nice documentation for DIY FSR (http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-FSR-sandwich/)

Then next step was setting up a multiplexer shield.Our first iteration, we made a nice multiplexer shield for Arduino. It seems very cool.

However, we had some issues with multiplexers, then we decided to stick with breadboard.

Breadboard with multiplexer

For analog multiplexers (CD 4067) Tom Igoe has really good documentation on ITP physical computing page. Also,, I am planing to make an instructable for using multiple analog multiplexers.

Then we connected our sensors. We used ribbon cables (8wires) and terminals. So, we connected our sensors to terminals and terminal are connected to ribbon cables and they are connected to multiplexers. I think this is very modular setup and helped us a lot.

Then we tried to program our sensors. We are reading all the values by using Arduino Duemilanove. Then we are sending everything to processing. We have 3 different setup after this.

My program

I got all the sensor values, and but all the sensor into an order. First, I ran 20 loops to average sensor values. That helped me to remove the noise from sensors. In my code, for each run, I was looking at difference between this average value and sensor value and getting their difference according to a threshold. So, I had precise values.

Sensor values are changing their rectangular visuals color, white to black. Then I blur the image and and re size it.This helped me to map sensor values to pixels. Then I run blob tracking.

my blobs

Diego Rioja‘s program

He visualized each sensor as circles, circles are getting larger or smaller according to sensor values.

Diegos Circles

Matt Richard’s Snake Game

Matt joined us in last minute. After talking with him for few hours, we decided to make a snake game. User need to roll his/her body up and down, left and right in the bed, to control the snake game. We projected the game to the ceiling, so user can watch it when he/she is laying down.

Matts game

a video that Diego shot

When I am imagining a technological human in year 2020, what I imagine is, no wires, less physical devices. I think one of the biggest change will be about power source for our technological devices. Scientists are looking for ways to produce electricity or deliver electricity in different ways. I think one of the interesting one is using radio frequency waves of our phones. This would help us to get rid of wires hanging all around our devices.
wireless electricity with cellphones

Another big improvement, will be on physical appearance of devices. First of all we will not need to carry tons of devices all the time. Phone, computer, camera will become one device and it will be a small device in our pockets, that has a connection to a screen in our contact lenses. So, screens will be inside of lenses, camera will be outside. We can see images, definitions right in front of our eyes. Way we control devices will change, eye movements, brain waves, body temperature etc. will be the ways that we interact with devices. Also, this might effect the communication ways between humans in future.

Also another interesting thing will be technology which is open to public. I believe that in the future there will be cameras all around the cities (CCTV), so people can connect them and take pictures. They will be all controlled over the web and all they need to do is, using their smart devices and taking pictures. If governments are still alive, this technology might decrease the crime rate (cause some body. literally watching you all the time). Also, I am assuming that there will be no wifi hot spot needs, cause gsm+wifi will be one piece and they will be all around.

Another possibility is, watching everything from an outside source, which means, instead of CCTV cameras, we might use cameras from satellites. Those cameras will have very high resolution so, we can zoom in take picture and zoom in again see every detail. We’ll have ability to control those devices by using small screens in our eyes.

We took an early tour in the morning with Eyal, Juri and Liesje about Moore family. Moore family is an Irish family, one of the immigrant families who lived in that building. There are so many interesting stories about the place. Mostly they focus on water and cleaning. It’s because their basic problem was health which caused by cleaning. One of the interesting things that I learned was LES has the first sewage system in New York.

There are so many stories about the house, seems like there were a lot of families in that building during the time. Walls ceilings, floors are so great. I couldn’t stop myself to keep looking at them. I think they all tells a story, especially the wall papers. Tour guide told that, they found almost 25(?not sure about the number now but it was a lot) different layers of wall papers, means that 25 different stories, life’s, families and tastes.

They are using projection and sound to give a sense of those times, which is really interesting. They are using windows to project in a really old room. I think it was great.

Also they don’t have enough lights in the building, I think that also gives a sense of their life’s. I think keeping it old, not using a lot of technology really works for their purposes.

An Immigrant

“I think I am really lucky that I am not an immigrant like them. Yes, I have some hard times, but at least I have a clean place to live. Well seems like some things are not changed to much, but at least it is not that bad. Look at this apartment, how can you leave in this place with 4 other people and with out water. That’s imposible…”

A Kid

“What is this place dad? Why are the rooms so small? Who is living in here? Why does it a museum? I can’t see anything interesting… Why didn’t they have water? Was New York a bad place dad?…”(I was like this when I was a little kid, if I don’t get why, I would keep asking questions to my father till I drive him crazy)

An Irish American

“I am so thankful to my grandparents. I don’t have to deal with all these stuff now. They had really hard times, but we made it, now me and my family have a great life. I guess, I they can see us, they would be really happy. I think that was the reason that they moved in here, to make us happy….”

I took the entrance which is in the lower floor. I start with earth and galaxy simulations. It is a really interesting exhibition. I think because of it’s structure (it’s made of metal and white materials) this place seems very clean and modern. Then I went to first floor, and tried to find the Indian American hall. It is almost impossible to find a place inside. Even maps doesn’t really helps.

Luckily I found the hall and start walking around. Room is very dark, and seems very old. I think color of the walls and lights gives you that old and boring feeling. Also, I think it was the emptiest hall in the museum. There are many interesting stuff inside, but it doesn’t take that much attention. Also this hall doesn’t have many thing that most of the other halls have, like screens, projections or at least a speaker. There is no technological interaction and seems like people are looking for that.

Than I start walking around. Animals exhibition is always interesting, cause all the animals are really big, and realistic. Kids spend a lot of time in front of the screens and people loves taking pictures with them. I think the reason is, they can never see most of the animals in there in real life, so they like spending time by just exploring them.

I think the most interesting part is the dinosaurs. They are huge and seems so real (I mean, like the ones that we see in movies). Also might be because of the windows and white color that they used, this floor is really bright. That changes a lot of things.

There are also some nice screens in that exhibition, that shows really interesting stuff about ancestor trees. But one negative thing about them is, that floor is so quite and when ever you start touching on the screen, speakers go on and make a lot of noise. I think headphones or directional speakers might be a good solution.

Two last thing about AMNH, their stores are full of toys, and some interesting stuff, which is really fun to look at. Last thing is, finding bathrooms is as hard as finding halls and seems like there is no easy way to solve that problem.

18 years old tourist boy

“I heard a lot about this museum, lets check it out. $16 for student, isn’t it expensive, anyways I want to see it. I hear about the dinosaurs, I want to check them out first.  Wait, this earth exhibition seems interesting. Lets check it out. Nice. Oh, it has been half an hour. I should keep moving. Whats happening in this floor, oh I see different cultures all around the world. Europe, Asia, oh seems like South America has more space. It has been 2 hours, and I couldn’t find the dinosaurs yet. I should keep moving…”

A little kid

“Hey mom, come here look at this bear!!! Are they really this big? Why? Ohh look at those penguins they seem really funny! hahah. What are these? Masks? I didn’t like it, it is not fun. Can we go home? Oh Really? Dinosaurs? Where? Let’s go see them!! They are hugee!! Are they real mom? how do they know they were like this? Did they see dinosaurs?”

A school Teacher

“Alright kids, come here! We need to get in to a line first. Now, let me give you some information about AMNH. We’ll se many different things today, about cultures, animals and dinosaurs. Lets start with Animals. Yes, they look so real. Lets sit down here and watch the animals a little bit. Ok, time to move. What do you guys think about the elephants. They look giant ha? Anyone wants to take picture?”

This is my midterm idea (first version) for social activisim using mobile tech class

I started with Soho Children Museum on Sunday. I think Sunday was a great day to see that museum. There were many children, who are running around or shouting. Seems like, it is a playground not a museum. It was really fun to see them like that. On the walls there are so many pieces that they made and most of them seems really good. Kids were mostly playing with things. I think that’s why they were going crazy, but I believe that it is really good for them.

One of the interesting thing was, there was a green screen wall, which was really fun to play with. Another thing was the signs and the language that they used. There were signs like this “please close me” it sounds really friendly.

I think another important thing is, kids are leaving something there, it can be a drawing or a note, but visitors who came after them sees those things and maybe that might affect them in a good way or when ever they come back, they see their things on the wall, I believe that makes them really happy.

My second stop was NY Hall of Science. It was amazing! I spend two hours inside and didn’t want to leave that place. There were so many things for all ages. It is all hands on learning. Also, there were some ITP style pieces like motion detection or sound pieces. I think technology is playing a really important role in that museum. Also, there were some things that needs multiplayer for interaction, and I believe that, those pieces improves interactivity between kids.

I was trying to play with one of the driving game, and I had a conversation with one of the kids mom. She said, her son was playing this so long, and should let us to drive. I told her to not worry. Her answer was really good, she said that he should also needs to learn sharing. Its clear that people brings their kids there to learn something, but they are not learning  by just interacting with machines, they are also learning by interacting people around them.

A Parent in Children museum

” Seems so crowded and loud inside, I hope he is going to have fun. Hey, come play with this. Hahaha is in it fun. Oh, did you see this painting? Wow he is 4 years old, that’s amazing. Lets go to downstairs. Be careful at the stairs. Oh, look at that, there is a fish behind me, this is called green screen….”

A Kid in NY Hall of Science

“Oh my god! I want to play with that spaceship. Hey dad, look at me I am landing to Mars!!! Hey dad! Come here Mars is really cold, come touch it!!!!! Did you see the lines between us, how did it happened? I want to ride this car, do you want to race with me?”

A Grown Up in NY Hall of Science

“That was a long trip, I hope it worth’s. Hmm, am I in right place? Oh I saw their sign. I should keep walking this way. Seems like nobody is inside. Lets check it out. Seems more for kids, hmm lets try this. Wow that is really cool. I want to try this video also, hahaha that was funny. Alright lets push these buttons. Wow I knew I was wrong!! Wow look at that!! that’s me in different colors. I am having so much fun!!”

USER scenario:

Magnum Photos web site almost has the same problems. If you click on any links, you’ll see each sub-link has different identity. Also if you click on a picture, it will load the whole page, which makes you wait to load, and also annoys. Also, even their frames changes on each link.

So I started with The Jewish Museum. The way they design it was so good. It was 4 floors, and everything was in an order. Security was completely douche, but some workers were really nice. Most of the workers were old, so sometimes it is even hard to communicate with them. There is this heavy feeling inside. Music, architecture, colors, lights makes you feel so bad. Especially, I didn’t want to enter to massacre room. It was really sad, and gave me a headache.

Then I went to The Asian Society. It was really small. but exhibition was really good. Most common thing about these two museum, they are small and I think well organized. Signs were enough and bathrooms were clear and not hard to find. However, I think Jewish museum was more cabinets of wonder type and Asian society was more like art museum.

Then I went to National Indian American Museum. As a building it was huge, but as as an exhibition, things that they show was pretty much the same. There was one room, which you are allowed to touch stuff and try to create your things was really good experience. I spend some time in there, playing with stuffs. Both Asian Society and National Indian American museums has great shops, they have really interesting stuffs but a little bit expensive.

Both Jewish and Indian American museums has touch screens, but they are not using it very effective.

As a kid in Nationa Indian American museum

“look mom, can you see these clothes, they are beautiful. Hey what is this room. Oh it is fool of games. Hey mom, did you see that? i did it. What is that button, hmm? ohhh great, look at those lights!!What is this guy making in here? He looks like the ones that I saw on pictures…”

As a researcher in Jewish Museum

“Ohh, I am so glad that I am here. This place is fool of stories. Lets start from the first floor. Seems like more childish. Nice, look at those kids, they are discussing about art pieces with their teachers. Lets go to 3th floor. Look at that, there is a virtual cafe that I can sit down and listen stories about Jews in different places on earth. Lets try to listen their stories…..”

As a Pakistani, who grow up in America, at Asian Society

“I am so happy to see my countries art in New York. Lets check out this big room. Colors look beautiful. Wait a second. Why are those painting are in black? Our culture is more colorful. Oh nice, I like this one, a rug made of pictures. What are those hats, colors looks similar but…. Oh nice she made this hats with gifts that she got. I am so happy to see modern artists from my culture….”

However when I am thinking about creating a new language, that seems very challenging. First of all, I need to find a reason to create a language. Lets say you want to go somewhere with your friends but you don’t want to invite someone in that room(So, I can use pumpkin example).

Pumpkin tonight : Are you going to party tonight?
It is hard to find any pumpkins now : it is late.
I love pumpkins, especially if they are fried : of course, I am going to get wasted
Do you know closest restaurant that I can found any? : what time you want to meet?
There is one famous at 11th and 5t(10th) avenue : lets meet at 11.00(or 11.30).
I see, I’ll search it on google maps : ok, I’ll call you.

This kind of conversations takes attention from the people around you, but they don’t understand anything. You can extend this kind of conversations for different reasons.

Accelerometer and electrode

Arduino and breadboard set up

Readings in a file

Rest of You assignment 2 from mustafa bagdatli on Vimeo.

video
This is my Arduino code:
/////////////Rest of You Assignemt 1////////////////////
/*
by Mustafa Bagdatli
09/21/2009
ITP fall 2009
*/

int analogPin = 0;
int analogValue = 0;            // outgoing ADC value
int analogPin2 = 1;
int analogValue2 = 0;            // outgoing ADC value

void setup()
{
// start serial port at 9600 bps:
Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
// read analog input, divide by 4 to make the range 0-255:
analogValue = analogRead(analogPin);
Serial.print(analogValue, DEC);
analogValue2 = analogRead(analogPin2);
Serial.print(“,”);
Serial.print(analogValue2, DEC);
Serial.println();
// pause for 10 milliseconds:
// delay(10);
}

This is my Processing Code:

/////////////Rest of You Assignemt 1////////////////////
/*
by Mustafa Bagdatli
09/27/2009
ITP fall 2009
*/

import processing.serial.*;
Serial port; // The serial port
int[] sensorValues = new int[2];

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

int x = 0;

FileOutputStream output;

void setup() {

size(800, 650);  // Stage size

port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);  //you can pull the name out of the list

port.bufferUntil(‘\n’);
// clear the serial buffer:
port.clear();

try {
output = new FileOutputStream(“logis.txt”, true);

}
catch (FileNotFoundException loui) {
loui.printStackTrace();
}

background(0);

}

void draw() {
for(int i = 0; i< sensorValues.length; i++){
sensorValues[i] = (int)map(sensorValues[i], 0,1023,0,height/2);
}
fill(0,255,0);
ellipse(x,height/2-sensorValues[0],3,3);
ellipse(x,height-sensorValues[1],3,3);
x = x+3;
if(x > width){
background(0);
x = 0;
}
}

void serialEvent(Serial port) {
// read the serial buffer:
String myString = port.readStringUntil(‘\n’);
// if you got any bytes other than the linefeed:
if (myString != null) {
myString = trim(myString);
// split the string at the commas
// and convert the sections into integers:
int sensors[] = int(split(myString, ‘,’));
// make sure you have enough readings:
if (sensors.length >= sensorValues.length) {
// put the readings into the global array:
for (int sensorNum = 0; sensorNum < sensors.length; sensorNum++) {
if (sensorNum < sensorValues.length) {
sensorValues[sensorNum] = sensors[sensorNum];
String sensorVal =”sensor Number “+sensorNum+” : “+ sensorValues[sensorNum]+” “;
try {
output.write(sensorVal.getBytes(“UTF8″)); // Write the coordinate to the file

}
catch (Exception e) {
println(“Error: Can’t write file!”);
}

}
}
}
}
}

initial game screen (cursor is the white ellipse on the first circle)

trying to hit the target (cursor is on the 3rd row and 4th column)

piezo sensor

accelerometer

This is the arduino code for sensors:
/////////////Rest of You Assignemt 1////////////////////
/*
by Mustafa Bagdatli
09/21/2009
ITP fall 2009
*/

int analogPin = 0;
int analogValue = 0;            // outgoing ADC value
int analogPin2 = 1;
int analogValue2 = 0;            // outgoing ADC value
int analogPin3 = 2;
int analogValue3 = 0;            // outgoing ADC value
void setup()
{
// start serial port at 9600 bps:
Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
// read analog input, divide by 4 to make the range 0-255:
analogValue = analogRead(analogPin);
Serial.print(analogValue, DEC);
analogValue2 = analogRead(analogPin2);
Serial.print(“,”);
Serial.print(analogValue2, DEC);
analogValue3 = analogRead(analogPin3);
Serial.print(“,”);
Serial.print(analogValue3, DEC);
Serial.println();
// pause for 10 milliseconds:
// delay(10);
}

and this is the processing code for the game:

/////////////Rest of You Assignemt 1////////////////////
/*
by Mustafa Bagdatli
09/21/2009
ITP fall 2009
*/

import processing.serial.*;
Serial port; // The serial port
color c1;
int check = 0;
int preCheck = 0;
int[] sensorValues = new int[3];  // array to hold the sensor values
int d = 100;
int numXCircle;
int numYCircle;
int[] xCoor;
int[] yCoor ;
PFont font;
int xChoose;
int yChoose;
// The font must be located in the sketch’s
// “data” directory to load successfully
Boolean start = false;
color[] colorFill;
float xControl = 0.0;
float yControl = 0.0;
Boolean hit = false;
Boolean hitCheck = false;
int hitTime = 0;
int m = 60;
void setup() {

size(800, 650);  // Stage size
font = loadFont(“Helvetica-20.vlw”);
textFont(font);
port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);  //you can pull the name out of the list

port.bufferUntil(‘\n’);
// clear the serial buffer:
port.clear();

// Print a list of the serial ports, for debugging purposes to find out what your ports are called:
//println(Serial.list());    //
//noFill();
numXCircle = width / d;
numYCircle = (height / d);
xCoor = new int [numXCircle];
yCoor = new int[numYCircle];
colorFill = new color[numXCircle*numYCircle];
int x = d/2;
int y = d;
int yNum = 0;
int num = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < numXCircle; i++){

colorFill[num]  = color(random(0,230),random(0,230),random(0,230));

fill(colorFill[num]);

ellipse(x, y, d, d);
num++;
xCoor[i] = x;
yCoor[yNum] = y;
x = x+d;

if( i+1 == numXCircle  && yNum != numYCircle ){

yNum++;
if(yNum != numYCircle){
i = -1 ;
}
y = y+d;

x = d/2;
}

}
//fill(255);
xChoose = (int)random(0, numXCircle);
yChoose = (int)random(0, numYCircle);
println(xChoose);
text(“x”, xCoor[xChoose]-5, yCoor[yChoose]+5);

smooth();
}

void draw() {
control();
int num = 0;
background(0);

if(m ==0){
text(“Game Over”, width – 400, 30);
xControl = 0;
yControl = 0;

}
else{
m = (int)(60 – millis()*0.001);
}
fill(255);
text(“time: “+m, width-200, 30);
text(“score: “+ hitTime, width- 100, 30);

// if( start == false){

int x = d/2;
int y = d;
int yNum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < numXCircle; i++){
//   fill(random(0,230),random(0,230),random(0,230));

fill(colorFill[num]);
ellipse(x, y, d, d);

num++;
x = x+d;

if( i+1 == numXCircle  && yNum != numYCircle){

yNum++;
if(yNum != numYCircle){
i = -1 ;
}
y = y+d;

x = d/2;
}
}
fill(255);

text(“x”, xCoor[xChoose]-5, yCoor[yChoose]+5);
//start = true;
//}
fill(240);
ellipse((d/2)+xControl,d+yControl,10,10);
float xEl = (d/2)+xControl;
float yEl = d+yControl;

if(hitCheck == true){
if(abs(xCoor[xChoose] – xEl) < 20 && abs(yCoor[yChoose]- yEl)<20){
hit = true;

}

}
if(hitCheck == true){
if(hit == true){
hitTime ++;
xControl = 0;
yControl = 0;
xChoose = (int)random(0, numXCircle);
yChoose = (int)random(0, numYCircle);

}
else{
xControl = 0;
yControl = 0;
xChoose = (int)random(0, numXCircle);
yChoose = (int)random(0, numYCircle);
hit = false;

}
println(hitCheck);
}

preCheck = check ;

hitCheck = false;

}

void serialEvent(Serial port) {
// read the serial buffer:
String myString = port.readStringUntil(‘\n’);
// if you got any bytes other than the linefeed:
if (myString != null) {
myString = trim(myString);
// split the string at the commas
// and convert the sections into integers:
int sensors[] = int(split(myString, ‘,’));
// make sure you have enough readings:
if (sensors.length >= sensorValues.length) {
// put the readings into the global array:
for (int sensorNum = 0; sensorNum < sensors.length; sensorNum++) {
if (sensorNum < sensorValues.length) {
sensorValues[sensorNum] = sensors[sensorNum];
}
}
}
}
}

void control() {

println(sensorValues[2]);
if (sensorValues[1] > 600) {
yControl = yControl + 5;/////sensor val1
}
else if(sensorValues[0] > 0){
xControl = xControl +2*sensorValues[0];//////sensor Val0

}
else if (sensorValues[2] > 900){
hitCheck  = true;////sensor val2
}

}

Seems like it is hard to understand what they are talking about. There are bunch of numbers. So, I am searching whatever I hear in this site http://www.apsu.edu/oconnort/polcodes.htm, still I am not really clear what are they talking about.

Right now they gave an address and there is a women insulted by her uncles girlfriend, and I think they gave this number  38(simple assault) 35 (simple battery?)

One officer gives a name; his name is one lebron, like lebron james. hahah

Another example:black male, armed with hand gun, rubbing kids, black hoddy and white nikes.

Another example 50 year old man 5- 7…..

It is 3.51 and I feel like it is time to switch their shifts. Cause they all start with good afternoon, sometimes give coordinates and give their numbers, like david 21(detective 21).

I think, the most interesting thing about police conversations, how could they keep all those numbers and their meanings in their minds? I have been listening to this station almost 2 hours and still it is hard to understand. Also, another interesting thing is, all the abbreviations are online. So, if you want to understand them, you can work on it and figure it out. So, I think they are not secure enough.

I went there on Sunday. Weather was amazing and park was really crowded. After I found the zoo, I tried to find the ticket booths. They are not as close to zoo as it should be. Also, they need a bigger sign for entrance, it is hard to understand, where is the exit or entrance, or am I going to kids zoo.

Anyways, I found the entry and start touring. I think, greatest thing in Central Park Zoo, everything is located around a circle, so you can’t miss anything. Also they give a map with tickets.

This time, I didn’t notice any toilets, but also I didn’t look for it.

Zoo has different buildings around the circle, for some, you have to get in to buildings. Those buildings has huge wooden doors. Main visitors of zoos are kids and parents with strollers. I think it is hard for them to open those doors. Most of the buildings are hot and smell really bad. Also, there were tons of strollers around, but paths were so narrow, so it was hard to walk around.

There were some areas for benches, so I think they have enough seating.

Also there were some signs that people can physically interact with. I think that was fun, but other than writings on the walls, they need more physical objects, that people can play with. Also, there were a lot of signs, which reminds me what to do all the time.

Also, other then their ticket incomes, zoos are really lucky, because their products in their gift stores are easier to sell then some art museum (they have a lot of toys).

A 8 years old kid

“Ohhh I am going to see lots of animals today. This place seems very crowded, I think I should hold my mothers hand. Wow look at those ants. Hey there is something up there…. I can’t see it. Oh here we are my favorite animal, leopard. Oh where is it? Hmmm I can’t see it. I think he is sleeping. pffff”

A mother with a stroller

“What a nice day. I am sure this place will be crowded. Here we are. Lets start with this room. Ups, what a heavy door.

-Excuse me sir, can you help me?

Ok, lets see, well, its hard to stop and see stuff, all the windows are crowded.

-Oh, sorry.

Can’t they make this roads a little bit wider? Also how am I going to go up to these stairs?”

A 17 years old kid

” Seems like they have penguin feeding in an hour. I shouldn’t miss it. Ok, lets start from here. Wow, somebody can say shut up to these kids! Hmmm, what does this sign says. Oh what is this? “try to find leopard” him what happens if I pull this, ohhh it shows me the leopard! So, nice.”

This Saturday, after I woke up, I started to read news papers. I was looking at different sources. One of the source says that myspace and last.fm are banned in Turkey. Actually this was not very surprising to me. It started years ago, with wordpress and blogger( I think they are not banned anymore). Then youtube, and google groups flowed. Youtube is still banned for more than a year.

People created different techniques to reach those site. For example, this was 2 years ago, if you set up your blog on your host, people can reach your blog, but if you use wordpress hosting, they can not. Another common thing is people changing their DNS set up. Also there are some web sites that forwards you to banned web site (like ktunnel.com) So, people get used to living with these bans.

There is somethings that bothers me, which are loosing our freedom of speech and freedom of getting information. You may think, by using those solutions that I explained above, everybody can reach to those sites , but there are many people who don’t have any idea about those. Also most of the people won’t say anything to those bans, because there are some important things about people who live there. One of them is they forget so easily, also, people usually don’t try to make changes, they obeys.

So, I feel like I want to work on this cause. First of all, it is related my interests(internet, freedom) and also in an area that I know very  well. Also youth in Turkey have been complaining about this, by using their facebook walls, and groups. I think time is also right to work on this cause.

My other idea was doing something for Unesco’s World Heritage center 2010 elections, but I think I’ll keep it for later.

I am also posting some snapshots from the Internet

Also check out this link :

http://friendfeed-media.com/0a4ee3b9719739bbc8ce2250be648d0b2a9ca5f3

Very interesting

First thing that I checked was the bathrooms. One of the good things about Moma is, all the bathrooms and fire exits are located almost at the same location, for each floor, and it is not hard to see them (except the ground floor). I tried one of them, and I know this is always a problem of Moma, they stink, also they are not clean enough.

I kept walking around, some of the art pieces were hanging in very high locations. This might be something that they do on purpose, but if I can’t see them that doesn’t make any sense. Also there were some pieces hanging on top of the doors, and of course few people were noticing them.

One good thing about Moma, each section has a concept so you don’t get confused. However, in some rooms there are two doors which goes to different sections, and that confuses me a lot. Deciding which one to choose, sometimes missing some good pieces, never finding your starting point are all problems that are caused by this. Maybe some sort of notifications on the floors or maybe some arrows would help this. Also I always get sleepy in Moma, it might be because of lightning or something else.

I saw a touch screen in one of the exhibitions, which was hiding in one of the corners. I am a little bit obsessed with touch screens. I believe that, they are great source to get lots of information, easily. So, they might use it more effective.

Exhibition on 6th floor was amazing. Architecture and lightning was really great. Also pieces were really interesting. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check it out.

Also I have visited Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea. I think because of the space constraints, they are not as fun as museums. They have old buildings with high ceilings, but their rooms and layout of buildings are not giving the same feeling. There was a nice exhibition in their 3rd gallery. Artist used lots of cigarettes to create his pieces.

One thing about galleries, I have been to 3 of them today, I realize that people don’t spend that much time in them, and they are usually free.

A teacher with 30 kids in Moma

” Oh god, how am I going to keep all these little monsters together.

-Hey Mark, don’t touch it!

It is going to be a tough day. Hmm lets take them to 2nd floor, there should be some interesting pieces there, then I can take them to 5th floor to show some of the great paintings. I wish there was a guide to help me now. Maybe there are some in some certain hours, why didn’t I search it?

- Kids we are going up to 2nd floor. Please be quite and don’t touch, step on anything. Everybody hold hands of the person next to you.”

Someone who speaks no English

“I heard about this museum a lot. I hope it worth’s. Let’s see how much is the tix. Ohh good, its also written in my language. Hope they can understand body language.

- 2 please?

Yes! I got the tix now. That was easy. There is a sign here, I think I need to drop off my bag. Lets start from the top floor. Oh, look at this painting. This artist is one of my favorite. Let’s take a picture with it. I’ll stand by next to it. I need to find somebody to take our picture.

-Sorry, photo?

Oh, glad that he understood. Oh, that’s a nice pic. I’ll show it to my friends back in home.

This is a very nice piece. But wait a sec. This info is written in English and Spanish. I don’t know both!!!”

Someone with disability

“I am happy that I came with my daughter. She is helping me to ride my chair. Let’s take the elevators. Oh, nice they are big enough. I want to see this special exhibition. Oh, doors are not automated? Really?? Oh, thanks to this young guy, he opened it for us(this part is a real story). Seems really good, but now we need to go out of the room. Why don’t you use automated doors? Oh, this piece seems really good. Is this the same artist with that one. Ohh, it looks nice but I can’t see top of it cause it is hanging at a very high point. I need to go to bathroom. Oh nice, they have spacial bathrooms for us.”

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/good-call-mobile-phone.html

This one give some statistic and describes some of the apps. I think this is one of the useful ones.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/5-green-android-apps.php

Describes 5 ecology friendly apps for android phones

http://www.socialbrite.org/2009/06/02/guide-to-mobile-activism/

a user’s guide to social activism. I don’t know how right they are but good to read.

http://mobileactive.org/directory

“The mDirectory is the most comprehesive database of information on mobile tech for social change on the Web.” Description seems clear enough but, website seems a bit complicated.

http://openmobilecamp.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecal

Open Mobile Camp: Open Source Mobile Tools And Code for Social Change. I already saw Nathan’s name (Nathan Freitas, instructor of our course) on their list, but I am not sure if we can join just for listening. If you hear anything about it let me know.

Parts that I dont like:

Positions of IR sensors: you have to lean to activate them. Also, usually users activated left one without knowing it. I am planing to put it higher. So, should get really closer, or use hands.

Shoes: It is so fun to use those shoes, but users don’t trust them. We are thinking of slepers with accelerometers. Still thnking about it…. if you have any idea, let me know.

Circuit board: Board that i made before the show works well, but you shouldn’t move anything. Cause it was a big mess. I made a new board last weekend. It looks better than the old one.  Here are some pictures of old and new board:

For more info, videos, images : www.funkiestkitchen.com

Wiring of LED’s also looks very intense:

Also we have a video with the lights

I am sure videos will make it clear.

video 1 video 2

I started to create a random, which is like a piano falls down to your head on the street (Todd Holoubek explains it this way).

My first prototype was an electromagnet which has iron fillings on it, and a sonar sensor. I was planing to set it up on top of a class entrance, but magnets didn’t worked well.  So, I started to work with  a servo motor. The algorithm is so simple. Whenever I set the trap up, it creates a random number, then starts to count number of person who enters the room. If the person, who is entering the room is equals to random number, servo works and it poors some confetti on persons head.

Video of the set up

What is Bendir?

Bendir is a very old drum, that usually used in Turkish musics . It is a big circle and mostly you play it with your hands or fingers, not with sticks.

wikipedia link for bendir, a video for bendir(guy talks in Turkish and teaches how to make it, but he also plays the instrument. You should watch it)

This was a very common instrument, but now a days people are forgetting those kind of analog instruments, cause using digital sounds makes producing music easier.

Once, I was talking to my father about my idea, and he asked me, how do I know this instrument? He saw it, first time, two years ago. I told him that, I was playing bendir in my band years ago. This was a big surprise for him.

My idea is, I really like sound of this instrument, it is meditating, by itself or with other instruments. I don’t want it to get lost in our digital culture.

So, I started to build an analog interface for bendir, which is controled by a software. I used solenoids and arduino for my physical interface. Basicly my starting point was, using a switch and something like a drum kick to play a bendir. So, I build my circuit and a wood kick with a solenoid.

As I said before, this is a prototype for the real project. Real one will be controlled by a software and kick are going to be different. I have to try it with different materials to get closer to sound made by finger.

I am planing to make some more imporevements to this project and create a database which grove ups in it. My idea is letting people in ITP to correlate some gestures with their drawings. I have to work on this ide more during the summer.

Here is the processing app wit pixel data (need a camera)

Here is the processing app with vectors (works with mouse)

Here is the processing app.

Here is the processing app.

I am planing to use this application for my computational cameras midterm. It is going to be an application, that users can interact with balls with cameras. I am planing to make background removing, so I can get the edges of the person and let them play with the balls.

Here is the processing app.

Here are some example links:
http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2009/01/timemap-lab/
http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2008/05/body-navigation/

Here is the link for processing app.

Here is the link for processing app.

Here is the link for processing app.

Computer vision has been using in different areas for years. I think the reason behind making researches about computer vision is, most important and effective sense is vision. We mostly learn thing by seeing. I have been to an experiment 3 years ago. We were in a room and having a dinner with around 50 people. Suddenly they turned the lights off for 5 min. We tried to eat our food without seeing it. You can smell it, you can touch it, you can hear the people around you, but you can’t see it. It was every interesting to see that vision is very important for us.

I think one of the important areas for the computer vision is, industrial production.  In factories people using CV, for automated systems or to see very small details.

Another area is health services. Now a day, doctors are using cameras and robotic arms in surgeries.

I think in the near future, we are going to start producing smart machines with cameras.

There is an article on www.seedmagazine.com about a new robot that have ability to learn things, and at the end it dies because it learns more that its capacity. I am sure when the time comes, people will start to develop algorithms for those robots that they can start learning the things that they see by their eyes (cameras).  In this example, they are using sonar sensor, which gives range values. For Example, hat if we use a camera with a sonar sensor. So we can detect objects (maybe with their shapes), which are close to our robot. Than by using an algorithm like color tracking we can understand the objects color. This process is very similar to a babies learning process. We can keep those data in memory and by using an algorithm (something like neural networks) we can start learning.

For example, our robot sees a chair (a chair like black one in class) and keeps its shape in its mind, than checks for the color. Then whenever it sees a chair with similar shape and color, it can think that it is in ITP.

So, maybe they can start watching our moves and start to make correlations between reason and result. That means we are creating the human again and all those sci-fi movies would become real.

I am planing to track dancers moves for my final project and make some visuals to them. So, I start with using IR lamp (array of IR LED’s) and a firewire cam with IR filter. I track the reflection of the IR’s from the objects. I have 2 images to share with you….

Here are some example links:

http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2009/01/timemap-lab/

http://halfdanj.dk/blog/2008/05/body-navigation/

import java.util.ArrayList;

import processing.core.*;

public class danceSketch extends PApplet {
PVector loc = new PVector(0,0);
PVector vel = new PVector(0,0);
PVector acc = new PVector(0,0);
float d = 10;
ball[] balls = new ball[10];
ArrayList ballsList;
public void setup(){
size(500,500);
ballsList = new ArrayList();

}

public void draw(){
background(255);
PVector mouse = new PVector(mouseX,mouseY);
loc = new PVector(random(d,width-d),0);

ballsList.add(new ball(this, loc));

//if(mouse.x != loc.x+d/2 && mouse.y != loc.y+d/2){//////this is not working

vel = new PVector(0,random(0.01f,1));
acc = new PVector(0,0.05f);

for(int i = ballsList.size()-1; i >= 0; i–){
ball balls = (ball) ballsList.get(i);
if(balls.loc.y >= height-d){
vel = new PVector(0,0);
acc = new PVector(0,0);
println(“in”);
}
balls.draw();
balls.move(vel,acc);
}
}

}

import processing.core.PApplet;
import processing.core.PVector;

public class ball {
PApplet parent;
float d;
PVector loc;
PVector vel;
PVector acc;
ball(PApplet p, PVector locP) {
parent = p;
loc = locP;

d = 10;
}
void draw(){
parent.fill(0);
parent.smooth();
parent.noStroke();
parent.ellipse(loc.x,loc.y,d,d);
}
void move(PVector velP, PVector accP){

vel = velP;
acc = accP;
loc.add(vel);
vel.add(acc);

}

}

import processing.core.PApplet;
import processing.core.PVector;

public class nature3 extends PApplet{
/////how can I define other classes in eclipse
PVector loc;
int rectWidth = 50;
PVector Eloc ;
float theta = 0;
PVector acc= new PVector(0,0);
int r = 10;
int k = 5;
public void setup(){
size(1200,500);
loc = new PVector(200,height/2);
frameRate(100);
Eloc = new PVector(loc.x+(rectWidth/2),10);

}

public void draw(){
background(0);
loc.y = map(sin(theta),-1,1,50,10);
theta += 0.1f;
//loc.add(acc);
Eloc.y+=k;

smooth();
fill(255);
rect(loc.x,height,rectWidth,-100+loc.y);
fill(120,200,120);
ellipse(Eloc.x,Eloc.y,r*2,r*2);
float rectTop = height-100+loc.y;
float circle = Eloc.y+r;

if(circle>rectTop){
k=-5;
}    else if(circle<1){
k+=5;
}

}
}

import processing.core.PApplet;
import processing.core.PImage;
import processing.video.*;

public class compW2Blur extends PApplet {

/**
* Getting Started with Capture.
*
* Reading and displaying an image from an attached Capture device.
*/
PImage back;
int threshold = 16;
Capture video;
boolean shootPhoto = false;
float v = (float) (1.0/9.0);
float[][] kernel = { { v, v, v },
{ v, v, v },
{ v, v, v } };
static public void main(String _args[]){
PApplet.main(new String[]{”compW2Blur”});
}

public void setup() {
size(640, 480);

// If no device is specified, will just use the default.
video = new Capture(this, 640, 480);

// To use another device (i.e. if the default device causes an error),
// list all available capture devices to the console to find your videoera.
//String[] devices = Capture.list();
//println(devices);

// Change devices[0] to the proper index for your videoera.
//video = new Capture(this, width, height, devices[0]);

// Opens the settings page for this capture device.
//videoera.settings();
}

public void grabBackground(){

//println(”in”);
shootPhoto = true;
back = video.get(0, 0, video.width, video.height);
}

public void draw() {
if (video.available()) {
video.read();
image(video, 0,0);

if(shootPhoto == true){

loadPixels();
/* int numberOfChanges = 0;

for (int row = 0; row < video.height; row++) {
for (int col = 0; col < video.width; col++) {
int offset = row * width + col;

int fgColor = video.pixels[offset];
int bgColor = back.pixels[offset];
float fgR = red(fgColor);
float fgG = green(fgColor);
float fgB = blue(fgColor);

float bgR = red(bgColor);
float bgG = green(bgColor);
float bgB = blue(bgColor);
float diff = dist(fgR, fgG, fgB, bgR, bgG, bgB);
if (diff > threshold) {
//pixels[offset] = fgColor;
numberOfChanges++;
//pixels[offset] = color(255,255,255);

}
else{pixels[offset] = color(0,0,0);

}

}
}
// if (numberOfChanges > video.pixels.length/2) {
//    uploadPicture();
//}
grabBackground(); //you decide grab after every frame or just at setup and mousedown

updatePixels();
*/

// Create an opaque image of the same size as the original
PImage edgeImg = createImage(video.width, video.height, RGB);
// Loop through every pixel in the image.
for (int y = 1; y < video.height-1; y++) { // Skip top and bottom edges
for (int x = 1; x < video.width-1; x++) { // Skip left and right edges

float sum = 0; // Kernel sum for this pixel
for (int ky = -1; ky <= 1; ky++) {
for (int kx = -1; kx <= 1; kx++) {
// Calculate the adjacent pixel for this kernel point
int pos = (y + ky)*width + (x + kx);
// Image is grayscale, red/green/blue are identical
float val = blue(pixels[pos]);
// Multiply adjacent pixels based on the kernel values
sum += kernel[ky+1][kx+1] * val;
}
}
// For this pixel in the new image, set the gray value
// based on the sum from the kernel
edgeImg.pixels[y*video.width + x] = color(sum);
}
}
// State that there are changes to edgeImg.pixels[]
edgeImg.updatePixels();
image(edgeImg, 0, 0); // Draw the new image

}

}
}

public void keyPressed() {
if (key == ’s’) {

grabBackground();
}
}

}

import processing.core.PApplet;
import processing.core.PImage;
import processing.video.*;

public class compW2Back extends PApplet {

/**
* Getting Started with Capture.
*
* Reading and displaying an image from an attached Capture device.
*/
PImage back;
int threshold = 16;
Capture video;
boolean shootPhoto = false;
float[][] kernel = { { -1, -1, -1 },
{ -1,  9, -1 },
{ -1, -1, -1 } };

static public void main(String _args[]){
PApplet.main(new String[]{”compW2Back”});
}

public void setup() {
size(640, 480);

// If no device is specified, will just use the default.
video = new Capture(this, 640, 480);

// To use another device (i.e. if the default device causes an error),
// list all available capture devices to the console to find your videoera.
//String[] devices = Capture.list();
//println(devices);

// Change devices[0] to the proper index for your videoera.
//video = new Capture(this, width, height, devices[0]);

// Opens the settings page for this capture device.
//videoera.settings();
}

public void grabBackground(){

//println(”in”);
shootPhoto = true;
back = video.get(0, 0, video.width, video.height);
}

public void draw() {
if (video.available()) {
video.read();
image(video, 0,0);

if(shootPhoto == true){

loadPixels();
int numberOfChanges = 0;

for (int row = 0; row < video.height; row++) {
for (int col = 0; col < video.width; col++) {
int offset = row * width + col;

int fgColor = video.pixels[offset];
int bgColor = back.pixels[offset];
float fgR = red(fgColor);
float fgG = green(fgColor);
float fgB = blue(fgColor);

float bgR = red(bgColor);
float bgG = green(bgColor);
float bgB = blue(bgColor);
float diff = dist(fgR, fgG, fgB, bgR, bgG, bgB);
if (diff > threshold) {
//pixels[offset] = fgColor;
numberOfChanges++;
//pixels[offset] = color(255,255,255);

}
else{pixels[offset] = color(0,0,0);

}

}
}
// if (numberOfChanges > video.pixels.length/2) {
//    uploadPicture();
//}
grabBackground(); //you decide grab after every frame or just at setup and mousedown

updatePixels();

/*

// Create an opaque image of the same size as the original
PImage edgeImg = createImage(video.width, video.height, RGB);
// Loop through every pixel in the image.
for (int y = 1; y < video.height-1; y++) { // Skip top and bottom edges
for (int x = 1; x < video.width-1; x++) { // Skip left and right edges

float sum = 0; // Kernel sum for this pixel
for (int ky = -1; ky <= 1; ky++) {
for (int kx = -1; kx <= 1; kx++) {
// Calculate the adjacent pixel for this kernel point
int pos = (y + ky)*width + (x + kx);
// Image is grayscale, red/green/blue are identical
float val = red(pixels[pos]);
// Multiply adjacent pixels based on the kernel values
sum += kernel[ky+1][kx+1] * val;
}
}
// For this pixel in the new image, set the gray value
// based on the sum from the kernel
edgeImg.pixels[y*video.width + x] = color(sum);
}
}
// State that there are changes to edgeImg.pixels[]
edgeImg.updatePixels();
image(edgeImg, 0, 0); // Draw the new image*/

}

}
}

public void keyPressed() {
if (key == ’s’) {

grabBackground();
}
}

}

import processing.core.PApplet;
import processing.core.PImage;
import processing.video.*;

public class compW2Edge extends PApplet {

/**
* Getting Started with Capture.
*
* Reading and displaying an image from an attached Capture device.
*/
PImage backgroundImage = new PImage(width,height);
PImage back;
int threshold = 16;
Capture video;
boolean shootPhoto = false;
float[][] kernel = { { -1, -1, -1 },
{ -1,  9, -1 },
{ -1, -1, -1 } };

public void setup() {
size(640, 480);

// If no device is specified, will just use the default.
video = new Capture(this, 640, 480);

// To use another device (i.e. if the default device causes an error),
// list all available capture devices to the console to find your videoera.
//String[] devices = Capture.list();
//println(devices);

// Change devices[0] to the proper index for your videoera.
//video = new Capture(this, width, height, devices[0]);

// Opens the settings page for this capture device.
//videoera.settings();
}

public void grabBackground(){
//image(video, 0,0);
backgroundImage.copy(video,0,0,video.width,video.height,0,0,video.width,video.height);
backgroundImage.updatePixels();
//println(”in”);
shootPhoto = true;
back = video.get(0, 0, video.width, video.height);
}

public void draw() {
if (video.available()) {
video.read();
image(video, 0,0);

if(shootPhoto == true){

loadPixels();
int numberOfChanges = 0;

for (int row = 0; row < video.height; row++) {
for (int col = 0; col < video.width; col++) {
int offset = row * width + col;

int fgColor = video.pixels[offset];
int bgColor = back.pixels[offset];
float fgR = red(fgColor);
float fgG = green(fgColor);
float fgB = blue(fgColor);

float bgR = red(bgColor);
float bgG = green(bgColor);
float bgB = blue(bgColor);
float diff = dist(fgR, fgG, fgB, bgR, bgG, bgB);
if (diff > threshold) {
//pixels[offset] = fgColor;
numberOfChanges++;
pixels[offset] = color(255,255,255);

}
else{pixels[offset] = color(0,0,0);

}

}
}
// if (numberOfChanges > video.pixels.length/2) {
//    uploadPicture();
//}
grabBackground(); //you decide grab after every frame or just at setup and mousedown

updatePixels();

// Create an opaque image of the same size as the original
PImage edgeImg = createImage(video.width, video.height, RGB);
// Loop through every pixel in the image.
for (int y = 1; y < video.height-1; y++) { // Skip top and bottom edges
for (int x = 1; x < video.width-1; x++) { // Skip left and right edges

float sum = 0; // Kernel sum for this pixel
for (int ky = -1; ky <= 1; ky++) {
for (int kx = -1; kx <= 1; kx++) {
// Calculate the adjacent pixel for this kernel point
int pos = (y + ky)*width + (x + kx);
// Image is grayscale, red/green/blue are identical
float val = red(pixels[pos]);
// Multiply adjacent pixels based on the kernel values
sum += kernel[ky+1][kx+1] * val;
}
}
// For this pixel in the new image, set the gray value
// based on the sum from the kernel
edgeImg.pixels[y*video.width + x] = color(sum);
}
}
// State that there are changes to edgeImg.pixels[]
edgeImg.updatePixels();
image(edgeImg, 0, 0); // Draw the new image

}

}
}

public void keyPressed() {
if (key == ’s’) {

grabBackground();
}
}

}

However I don’t know how to export html with eclipse. So, for this week I am puting my code here. To see the results press “s”.

1) My family and friends live in Turkey. So, I share photos to keep them updated.

2) Important and interesting moments

3) If there is more than one person in a photo, I share it and they can keep a copy of it.

an example

By uploading an image, we can give locations, time. Also if we can notice the persons that we want to share the picture, via e-mail or mms(that’s easier), that would be really great. Like the one that I posted in example link, I can send this image to a hospital or a doctor and ask for help. It could be something like a health server(ex:helpme@help.com), which you can ask for help.

Thanks to Tom Igoe and Selcuk Artut for their helps.

I like the idea, but visuals didn’t worked well. I should improve it. link

In one of our classes, one of the guests, told us that we should use a track ball to help him. We bought a track ball, and let him try. He was very comfortable with it, and he seemed he really liked it. I was wondering that, using cliscks and the mouse at the same time might not be easy for him, but he managed that. Then everything become simpler for us. We just need to build up a table for the track ball.

First idea that came to our mind, was to use some foam blocks to build up a cube and put the track ball on top of it. Because foam blocks are strong and they are not heavy. We build a cube and give it to him. We were planning to cut some pieces to make it stable on his table. We asked him to do that, but he didn’t want it. He is nearly all the time ok with everything.

After we left the cube and track ball in his place, next thing was to buy a FLStudio software and teach him how to use it. It is very easy to learn it. I just showed him twice and he learned it. Then I get a myspace page for him to upload his beats. Address: www.mypace.com/wilsonlenny .

As a final step, we made a documentry video with him and his mother Anna. They were very exited about that and it is a good documentation for the class. We made it, because we think that whole proceses of this class more important than the final product. I am going to upload the video later.

Also we are in to ITP Winter Show 2008 with this video. Also, Lenny will be at ITP at 12/16/2008 to talk about it and see the floor. This is very exiting.

Here is some visualizing samples that I found online. I think, I will work on something like those ones.

I listen to music, nearly 5-6 hours in a day. I listen many different genrees. I can say, I have quite good experience in this. When you start to listen too much, and different genrees, you will understand, many songs influenced by different songs. I guess the reason is, we have limited amount of resource in our hands (until someone comes with a new idea), so we are using same things in different variations, but at the same time, we are creating our way of artistic communication.

Those questions are very important to me now a days. According to the book it seems like “electric” has changed the art.

Technological developments and inventions changed the art “concept”. Especially in last 100 years, people started to think, imagine differently. Of course, many things have buildup during this period and which are really art( according to my ideas ), but there are many things which means nothing to me.

Now a days people, understand the importance of medium, and I guess that makes their life easier. People, who are lazy are using the concept or medium as to cover up their meaningles “art” pieces.

For me, something beautiful, something disgusting, something scary can be art, but it has to give me its message by just looking at it or listening to it ( I am not talking about literature, it is completely different story ), but those lazy or incapable people, that I mentioned before, that can not transfer their message, are using the word “concept” as to cover their “things”. So, during the contemporary art period, people start using medium of literal in their visual art pieces. Well, if they can give their message, literally stronger then visual, why those people use visuals as their art? Now a days, people doing “something” and call it art. However if anybody asks them “what makes this art?”, their only answer is “because I feel like this is art”.

Changing how you transfer medium of art might be good or bad; “it is the way they are used that determines their value*”.
*Understanding Media-Lewis H. Lapham

After talking with him, we figure out that, we don,t have to build a high-tech thing for him. Also, he is happy with his mouse, we don’t need to keep it away from him.

So, we came up with the idea of building a resting piece for him. This piece is going to help him to rest while he is working on his beats. We might at a tapping function to his instead clicking.

Also, i tried to make a visualization for smell. This application takes 20 different xml files(10 for bi receptors, 10 mono receptors, take 2 each time). There is a zoom application for it, but it doesn’t work properly(use arrow keys, shift and enter). Also by clicking “0″ you can see each path together, clicking “1″ clears the background. link

I am planing to build an image, which is like a root of a tree. For this, I will put the top of the tree on the screen and I am planing to use some colored balls which will travel according to the data, and will draw the roots of the tree. I am planing to make it in 3D and have an ability to zoom in & out. I am planing to make my background black.

I think, I didn’t get what do you mean by saying larva, but I figure out (with the help of paper) it might be something like a real larva( I was expecting something different). I choose a hand drawing of it:

Assignment 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml

This site is about British history. They basically builded a time line and dive it according to time, each color gives the different time. When you click on a time, you can zoom in find informations about that time.

http://www.noiseawareness.blogspot.com/
Also, this project is showing the different noise levels in different cities on billboards.

http://www.plummerfernandez.com/
“Sound/Chair begins as a sound that is precisely crafted to form the shape of a chair when visualized as a 3-dimensional object using a volume, time, frequency plot. The chair is an exact replica of the soundwave graph. The result is a product with dual existence as both a sound and chair, and a new approach to designing products.”

Enjoy it….

What I did was, I took a snapshot from a glass of bubble. Then, make edge detection on bubbles, and I got the edges of the bubbles. Afterwards, I make blob detection and get the blobs, I was planing to make something like a histogram, so we can see which side is whiter(image is black&white) so we can understand, what part has the most bubbles.

Here are the images:

Article starts with this quote. It makes a lot sense to me. What we are trying to do this days is, trying to create a new way to art. Most of us has some ideas about combining the arts with technology. Well, combining the arts with technology is not a new idea. For example, after invention of printers they used that technology in writing and mass production of new books. By saying technology, I want to mention that, technology with computers and sensors. Those new tech. makes computers(dumb machines) very close to humans(by giving them ability to sensing). So, we are getting ready to see new formations in arts. 

Also according to writer, people who witnesses in something will become an expert on that subject. Also, he mentioned that, now a days people become more involved in printed news issues like news paper. I tried to mention to paragraphs quickly. The reason behind is, everyday we are witnessing many things. At the same times, we have our blogs, accounts on web sites(such as news papers), video sharing accounts, and they are all global resources. Maybe many people haven’t realized that but we are building a new society, which is more global, aware, and open to sharing. I am really wondering about the future. I believe that globalization on the internet will effect nationalities, economies and politics in the near future. Also, I am wondering that, what is going to happen in the future, if we keep sharing everything in our life, on social sources like Facebook. 

Also, I am surprised that, while he was comparing cameraman and painter, he says, painters have some distance from reality but cameramen are penetrates directly in to realty. Well, it might seem like, painters draws the objects in a way they see them, but cameramen can show the realties in an angle they see them. I mean, they can hide realities or they can show good sides of the truth by their cameras, without event touching the bad sides. For example; a cameraman can show that their country in a good shape during a war by showing their guns, tanks and some soldiers who are holding a gun in their hands happy about the situation, but other one can show like they are loosing a war by showing death bodies etc.

One of the this weeks assignment was, documenting one of our projects. However, I have one assignment this week. So, documented it. It was an assignment of visualizing the 5 senses class. Assignment was about, deciding what to do as next project with electro microscope, and start to code your ideas. So, this project has not finished yet.

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I was planing to do something in 3D. Tried to keep some arrays and I was planing to draw the lines in 3D axis and a camera to follow them. I could not figure out the camera. So I change my plans to 2D

I listen to music nearly 4 or more hours in a day. Mostly I use headphones, but at home I listen to music from speakers. Mostly I have my own playlist, Sometimes I use last.fm at home I listen to radio. Mostly I listen at home, on the subway, at the lounge with my headphones. Sometimes I listen to music at cafes but not much.

2) How much time each day do you spend listening specificially to a
personal sound device of one sort or another? And how much of the time
when you’ve got headphones on or earbuds in are you using the music to
block out other sound like subways or something else you find
annoying?



When I am walking in the street in the morning or at night, at the floor.

3) How much time a week do you spend listening to music, either
through a personal sound device or at a club/concert venue, which you
feel could be loud enough to cause damage to your hearing?



at least 2 night in a week.

4) How often in an average day, or week, do you spend actively seeking
out silence? And how successful are you at finding a silent space if
you do go looking for one?



Usually I don’t look for silence. However if the sound is something like a construction sound I would look for slience but it is not that often.

5) Do you think that the balance between sound and silence in your
world is where you’d like it to be? Or would you like to change it
toward more or less sound?



It is ok for me now.

6) What’s the most powerful experience of silence you’ve ever had?


When I was in sound recording studio in my college, but you can even hear the sound of the fans.

After installation, I found a theme which is called black and red theme.

I started to edit its CSS folder. First problem that I have faced was, I forgot to change port number to 777 which lets to make changes on a file. Afterwards, I have changed the header, menu bar, bullets and some colors on site. Now, you see the page that I have edited.

NYC Waterfalls

NYC Waterfalls are made by Olafur Eliasson. The ide behind the project was, we see the river in one dimention, what happens if we change it? I watched some videos of it. They said technologicaly it is to hard to design it, because they need to design a pool which keeps the water in it clean, and huge plumbers for the waterfall.

According to my ideas, I can’t see those waterfalls as an art piece. Maybe that is because I have an engineering background, but it seems like they don’t have any function to me. When I first heard about them, I thought they were something which has interaction with anything around them or they might have lights which make them beautiful, but I was wrong. To me, they look like some steal constructions, and they drop some water over constructions with the help of plumbers. I guess this is more likely something for the city kids who never saw a naturel waterfall.

There are lots of naturel waterfalls around world and I believe that they much beatiful. They are more beautiful because they are natural. I am a big fan of technological developments and I think there has to be technolgical and artistic projects which are affected by nature, but this one is exactly the same. So I want to talk about my day, and my experinces.

When I come to the Brooklyn Bridge there were lots of interesting things except waterfalls. There was an interesting market place. I think they were selling realy delicious things. I walked in to the park and it was crowded. I walked a little and see yeloow canoes in the river. They sem so interesting to me. I wonders how do they pass the river, because at the same time there are some boat around, which makes traveling in the river dangerous to them. Then I saw a waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge. I checked if there is anything interesting for me, because I am a mediterranean and I have a different waterfall image in my mind. By the way, I really don’t understand why people call it a art piece? I took some photos and walk back to the subway. Then I realize another waterfall on the otherside. Well, the one which is under the Brooklyn Bridge seems more interesting then this one, because it was under the bridge and maybe I can fit it in to a concept.

I have still questions in my mind like, why did they do this, why this is an art piece etc. If I see it in the evening with some lights, it might seem interesting to me. However, now it seems like plumbing some water.

Literacy and Orality

First of all I want to say that, Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy book is a bit boring. I heard many complaints about the book from my friends. I think, it is really easy to fall a sleep while reading it. I spend someday on it but I cannot finish the 4 chapters. Also it is so hard for me to understand everything in the book.

Writer starts with describing the differences between oral literature and written literature. According to writer oral literature created before written literature. Written literature is visualization of the oral literature. He says ” Writing makes ‘ words appear similar to things because we think of words as the visible marks signaling words to decoders: we can see and touch such inscribed ‘ words’ in texts and books. This idea is really explains it perfectly. Also, my peronal idea is, language is something personal, because when we say something or write something we visualize it in our brains and try to explain it to others. This may create different figures in everyones mind.

Also Ong talked about ancient cultures, which has effects on development of writing. He talked about Greek alphabet and Homeric poems. He says Homeric poems are mix of early and late Aeolic and Ionic written literature and it developed in several years, which shows development of language. Also he says that, if something is written it won’t be lost.

According to Ong, oral culture is not just words and sounds, also it includes thoughts. Also giving references or finding a reliable base to ideas is easier in written literacy. This is important because we can see its effects on mostly development of laws. Before the written law judges can penalize people according to what they have in their hands. So, it can make differences in different parts of the country. However after written literacy, they had examples in judge’s hands, which have limitation effect on them.

As I said it is very hard for me to read this book and understand the concepts, because I cannot get into the subject. Also he makes lots of citation, which are really iritates me. I will update my page when ever I understand more or read more chapters…