Project Proposal -Final Draft
Monday, October 29, 2007
For my final year thesis project I will create domestic living objects that interact and connect online. Theses objects will be physical manifestations of the virtual lives we create online. They will accumulate and give awareness to information regarding our virtual selves and bring it into the lives of our physical selves through interactive networked means. in addition, certain objects will communicate our physical lives to our virtual ones, accumulating biometric data to be categorized on our online spaces.
I will create several objects, including a physical mailbox for acknowledging the users e-mail, a yet to be visualized object that will use an LCD screen and XML feeds to read off the messages from the user's friends, (possibly through twitter). I will have a chair that will react to any information on my own personal blog, illuminating as users visit the site, as well as reacting to any comments left on the site as well. The temperature, noise levels, and other biometric data will be transmitted online to the virtual personal space, connecting the two spaces together. Thesis ideas will change and evolve as the prototypes get developed.
I have some some preliminary research and i have a core set of tools and resources. arduino's will be used in conjunction with wireless connection(bluetooth or wifi) max/msp and processing will play a part.
