Information scavaging

Nothing much recently, but found a really good interactive art for kids website which may related to our project.

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/cubits.htm

The original ideas

ORIGINAL LIST OF IDEAS FOR DANCE FLOOR

Number 1 (David)
There will be a projector projecting the image onto glass flooring, activated with a pressure censor. The user will be able to interact with an interface which can make the floor into a wooden floor, metal floor or a comedy floor...etc. According to which floor type the user chooses, the other user will be able to step onto the glass(Floor) and create different sounding footsteps. For example, if user One decides to make the floor into a wooden floor, where the rest of the users walk on the glass, it will create footsteps sounding as if they are walking on a wooden floor. The same would be for a metal floor.

Number 2 (Sandra)
All ages. Users are invited to interact by stepping onto the dance floor area and dancing to the music. By dancing the dance floor tiles will light up with a different colour every time a move is made.

Number 3 (Petra)
Giggle Hopscotch is aimed at a child market. The concept is to have pressure sensors under each square of a hopscotch mat, and when children play hopscotch a variety of giggles will occur depending on the square that is activated.

Number 4 (Harrison)
Light Image involves a grid of sensors on the floor: the user is given 15 steps on the grid. Each step of which shines a light on the wall. The different combinations of steps on the grid create different lit up images. The user gets a total of 3 tries and reveal the image before the image is changed to another one. This is targeted towards all ages. The audience should get a feeling that they are personally creating an artistic piece of work.

Number 5 (Harrison)
Air drums: 5 dots on the floor represent a set of sensors that act as drums. As the user hits down above the sensor the sound is triggered. The drumming animates a silhouette person dancing as well as an animated background both of which move at a speed according to the bpm. This animation is shown on a projection. Once the user has finished the drumming they can replay the animation and the drumming that they have created. The audience should get a feeling that they are creating their own music video.

Number 6 (Dean)
The Educational Floor: there will be a grid laid out on the floor with a number of different shapes, colours or numbers. When a user comes along and stands on a particular shape or number, than an image of that shape or number will be projected onto the wall. A group of colours will be next to it, so the user will place one foot on the shape of choice and one on the colour of choice then that shape in that colour will be projected, and for the number.

Number7 (Joy)
The entire floor in the physical area we are using is covered in touch screens. As a person steps on this floor at certain points, a projection is visualised by the participant possibly on the floor itself, but more creatively; in 3d around them. The images seen by the user could resemble peoples faces, as though the user was stepping on a persons grave. At the same time, small gusts of cold air would be circulating to create a "goose bump" effect, and swishy wind sounds can be heard.

Number 8 (Diem)
Step of Dance: A dancing display that reflect from normal footsteps. When the audience walk in, the floor will calculate the speed, the distance, the direction, and the strength of each step and generate that data into a dance that is perfomed accordingly. The audience can experiment each of their own movements as a beautiful dance.