3D with WiiRemote

Supper 3D with WiiRemote!
By Johnny Chung Lee[link]

Ultra wideband

From Wikipedia[link]

[Difinision]
Ultra-wideband (UWB, ultra-wide band, ultraband, etc.) is
a radio technology. It can be used at very low energy levels for
short-range high-bandwidth communications by using a larger
portion of the radio spectrum. This method is using pulse coded
information with sharp carrier pulses at a bunch of center frequencies
in logical connex. UWB has traditional applications in non cooperative
radar imaging. Most recent applications target sensor data collection,
precision locating and tracking applications.
[Applications]

Due to the extremely low emission levels currently allowed by
regulatory agencies, UWB systems tend to be short-range and indoors
applications. However, due to the short duration of the UWB pulses, it
is easier to engineer extremely high data rates, and data rate can be
readily traded for range by simply aggregating pulse energy per data bit
using either simple integration or by coding techniques. Conventional
OFDM technology can also be used subject to the minimum bandwidth
requirement of the regulations. High data rate UWB can enable wireless
monitors, the efficient transfer of data from digital camcorders, wireless
printing of digital pictures from a camera without the need for an intervening
personal computer, and the transfer of files among cell phone handsets and
other handheld devices like personal digital audio and video players.

UWB is used as a part of location systems and real time location systems.
The precision capabilities combined with the very low power makes it ideal
for certain radio frequency sensitive environments such as hospitals and
healthcare. Another benefit of UWB is the short broadcast time which enables
implementers of the technology to install orders of magnitude more transmitter
tags in an environment relative to competitive technologies. USA based Parco
Merged Media Corporation was the first systems developer to deploy a
commercial version of this system in a Washington, DC hospital.

New UWB Products from HITACHI[link]
Accuracy- 30cm

Klaipeda typeface

Klaipeda typeface[link]

Trans-sensing—Seeing Music

I.D. student award 06[link]
By Wen-Hua Hu
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In Trans-sensing, Hu outlines her process of developing a
complex graphics system that explores what it might be like to
visualize music—at first strictly, by converting each note's pitch
into a corresponding pictogram's color, its rhythm into shape,
and its beat into size; and then more loosely, through free-form
drawing. Based on the idea of synesthesia, the rare neurological
condition in which the senses cross wires—leading the affected to,
for example, taste shapes or hear colors—the project was originally
intended to allow those with a perceptual deficiency to experience
a missing sense through an intact one.

From I.D student award 06
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sound spectrum

Actionscript: SoundMixer.computeSpectrum()
Source: The Flash blog[link]

Action Sclipt video tutorial[link]

//////////////////////code sample /////////////////////////

1. var s:Sound = new Sound();
2. var sc:SoundChannel;
3. var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
4. var array:Array;
6. s.load(new URLRequest("mix.mp3"));
7. sc = s.play(0,1000);
9. this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, spectrum);
11. var a:Number = 0;
13. function spectrum(event:Event)
14. {
15. a = 0;
16. graphics.clear();
17. SoundMixer.computeSpectrum(ba,true,0);
18. for(var i=0; i <256; i=i+8)
19. {
20. a = ba.readFloat();
21. var num:Number = a*360;
22. graphics.lineStyle(num/15,0x0066FF|(num <<8));
23. graphics.drawCircle(stage.stageWidth/2,stage.stageHeight/2,i);
24. }
26. }

Image for BAT

Sclitscan Type Generator [link]
For building image

Sony CSL

Sony CSL Music Project[link]

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[Malleable Mobile Music]
A system for collaborative musical creation on mobile wireless
networks. The work extends on simple peer-to-peer file sharing
systems towards ad-hoc mobility, streaming, and collaborative
creation. It extends music listening from a passive act to a proactive,
participative activity. The system consists of a network based
interactive music engine and a mobile rendering player. It serves as
a platform for experiments on studying the sense of agency in
collaborative creative process, and requirements for fostering
musical satisfaction in remote collaboration.
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pavillon de l'arsenal

The volume of city, Paris-the model of paris

Pavillon de l'arsenal[link]
21, boulevard Morland
75004 Paris - FRANCE


拡大地図を表示

L'espase/l'expo a voir.

site de Kashiwa SATO

Sato KASHIWA(graphic designer) [link]
(Interaction design par Yugo Nakamura)

Graphism tres interesent pour Ema avec citu (le carte 3D).
Comme le interaction et visualization avec line colour.
C'est plus amical pour les utilizater de Ema.

LightRain

LightRain[link] by wowlab
仙台芸術遊泳 2007(Sendai art Fest.)

This is a movie of the insteration by wowlab.
It is about the rain. Their question is that "when we starts hating rain?"
In the work, they dipicte the beauty and joy of rain.

(It really remings me my childfood.
When I was a kids I love to play in the rain.
I love the drop on the leaves, I love the sounds of rain which hit my unbraller.)

The convination of animation(movement) and music. off course interaction
is exellent.

Interface textile XYi

Interface textile XYi[link]
*There is Video, good one!
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The textile Interface "XYi" is a large tactile interface for playing
electronic music. The performer plays it simply by moving his /
her hand onto it. The hand's contact position is transmitted to a
computer via a 12 bytes resolution Midi card.
From the site: Interface textile XYi
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For Ema
Not only with visually, but also sounds interface is very important for this product.

For myself
Not only the movement of hand, but also "Touch of textile" is very important.
It is very much sympathize with the sounds.
"Depending on the material, there is propper music?"

>>Music and Material

sandscape

Sand Scape by ISHII HIROSHI (MIT Media Lab) [link]

SandScape is a tangible interface for designing and understanding landscapes through a variety of computational simulations using sand. Users view these simulations as they are projected on the surface of a sand model that represents the terrain. The users can choose from a variety of different simulations that highlight either the height, slope, contours, shadows, drainage or aspect of the landscape model.

Audio Pad

fantastic screens

01. LucidTouch - a see-through mobile device
From Adis




02. Apple files for second force-sensitive display patent


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On the heels of last week's discovery of a patent titled
"Force Imaging Input Device and System," documents
published for the first time on Thursday reveal a
successive and similarly focused filing titled "Force and
Location Sensitive Display."
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From "appleinsider" [link]

Nike run!

Nike run[link]
Nike run is the product for people who enjoys joging.
With "nike run(ipod and some devices"), people can control their
runing. Count the speed and how much they run or something like
that. Then, people can check it while they are runing with ipod screen.

Also, there is a community and geographically presented as well.



Also this CM gives an idea of presentation.

Ema basic tool

From this link [downlord], you can downlord Ema's basic tool.

[contents]
Ema toot (ai) -petit tete person,logo(ver1.0), bubble
Ema_interface(psd+jpg)-initial interface for iphone/itouch(ver1.0)
headphone(psd+jpen)
interface2(psd)-interface for iphone/itouch
ipod(psd)-logo for ipod touch/iphone

Ema's basic senario

Based on Ema (ver1.0: Ema for the first Fing presentation.),
I am re-thinking about basic scenario of Ema.

Whatever interfacewe are going to choose, I think we have to
think about these 3 results in one senario. Because, with Ema
(ver1.0) people needs to make the 2 stages of choice.


Choice 1.Ema (ON/OFF)
-This is the switch for the choice, whether the user wants to hear
the music from others.


Choice 2.The status of each music in users play list
(Public mode/Private mode)
-With this switch, for each music, user can choose whether they
accept to share the music or not.
(※Because sometimes, people might have very personal sounds
on their play list or something embarrasing to let others hear.
For example, I have a stupid music file which my friends made
for my birthday...)

Considering these 2 stages of choice, when two people pass by,
there is 3 possibility. (Red is A's music/Blue is B's music)

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Result 1.
When two people are passing by, one can hear the other's music
(but the other doesn't). So they hear the same music at the same time.



Result 2.
When two people are passing by, they swap their music.



Result 3.
When two people are passing by, nothing happens(for Ema ver1.0).



Each condition
3*-As for this situation(condition), the users do not hesitate to
share their song, but each of them does not listen to others.
So for this situation, we might be able to use idea of "Toy story"/
"wind effect"[link]

meeting memo-02/11/07

01.Regular Meeting-Mardi 14h-/ Judi 14H


02. Pour le rendu : vendredi 16 novembre
On va concentrer le principal système d'Ema, premier.
-imaginer l'interface et senario.
-"quels genres d'expérience que nous pouvons obtenir avec ema" dans la ville./
ce qui peut être éprouvé avec ema"

et introduisez la possibilité différente l'interface et senario.(peut-eter, avec Animation)

Aussi, on peut peut expliquer des autres choses supplémentaires, tel que "second life"
et "toy story"


03. ["Agender" pour rencontre porchaine : Mardi 14h]

"Ema mapping"
-Main system of Ema
+Possibility of interface-different senario
-Other issue about Ema/Music streeming(if we can research a bit)
+(ex) Creative Commons/ Copyright
-Technical issue
+Wi-Fi/GPS
-Other additional possibility
second life/Facebook/Toy story/AIBO

*Avand le rencontre, on doit imaginer l'idee de interface et senario
ex) i-touch avec "wi-fi network" - "what can we do with it"
Head movement oriented interface with GPS - "what can we do with it"

s e r e n d i p i t y2

004. Design of serendipity2 [Ema * second life]

As one of the bonus/alternative functions of Ema, "Ema in second life".
A user in real life could notice the moment when he pass by someone's abater
in second life. He can not see him but he can hear some nice special sound
(sound effect), such as the sound of a bell (like a cat) or the sound of steps.

As well as the user in phisical world, the user who controle abater in second life,
he can hear the same sounds as him at the same time.

s e r e n d i p i t y

003. Design of serendipity

Sometimes, as one of the bonus/alternative functions of Ema,
the wind in the area conveys the music of one user.
Without his noticing, the wind conveys the sounds/music for
another person who is in the same city with wind itself.
(but only one person can hear the music)



kaze to disktop (my blog)[link]
>>screan saver using local wind data

bound of Ema

001. boundary

At the last presentation, we did not mention about the boundary of ema that much.

The boundary of Ema can be changed, depending on the environment,
the space +the people arround(as two of you discuss before)
The boundary of ema can be dynamic rather than statistic such as water.
(The picture is not good, it is not really tell the concet of Ema, sharing)

Inspiration of boundary:
- Mess a di voce (my blog) [link]

Inspiration of dynamic boundary:-yougop/boder [link]
(click "1. border")




002. i-tune/body-tune

One day before our presentation, Simon and I discussed about tuning system
with the professers.
At that time, J.L. advised us that it should be fun if user can change the bound of
Ema(how much distance he can hear) with the devise.

For example, in the metro -0, at street-1, at a park-3...

w i n d o w

Image from Illoiha Omotesando fitness club in Tokyo

By some possibility, the windows (on the exterior wall)
might be the frames of pieces of art, the art of human life (activity).

Could be...Could not be...

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How we can visualise the surface of architectuer...
How we can visualise information of hight...
How we can achive 3D...

X, Y, Z

H 5

The child: movie by H5
H5[link]
GAS Project Blog H5[link]

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How we can visualize 3D.

Usually,
City council know the infomation of the hight of each building.
We can easyly access to this informatioon.

So depending on the ways of visualization of each building,
it can create something like "the child" easily.

aqua scape

aqua scape[link]
by ELP for water exhibition

Aqua scape is the web site which provide you the sounds
of water from different place on the earth.

What if we can hear the sounds of ground water...
What if we can hear the sounds of other city...
What if we can hear the sounds from deep water...
Sounds of deep sea fish, sounds of migrant bird...

Hight tuning

Powers of Ten by Eams.

[Ideé]
Hight tuning.
What if we can hear the sound under us or above us.

Mess a di voce

Mess a di voce[link]

Good example of the visualization of sound.
Sound is not a statictic stuff, but more dynamic.
The bubble of Ema must be changable depending on the relationship
and action.

B o u n d a r y

Boundary Functions Scott Snibbe, 1998 [link]

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We think of personal space as something that belongs solely to ourselves.
However, Boundary Functions shows us that personal space exists only in
relation to others. Our personal space changes dynamically in relation to
those around us.
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Media art by Scott Snibbe.
As one Prof said in the Fing2.0 workshop, the scale of boundary
(of ema) might be changeable depending on the relationship.
But, as for ema, it might not show the line of boundary.

Good to visualize, what it should be, even just a drawing...


Also, in some particular space the bubble might be seen...
Such as music store...

P a r i s

Basic Info. of Paris

01.Ville de Paris[link]
Tourlist info.[link]

02.Office du tourisme de Paris[link]
Paris timeline[link]

03. wiki pedia (english)[link]
wiki pedia (français)[link]
wiki pedia (Japonais)[link]

To see or not to see

What you do not see control what you do see.

[rule1:チラリズム]
how long you can see< how long you can not see
how much you can see< how much you can not see

i p h o n e

About iphone
tout guide (video)/apple us [link]

thinking about other function, it is fantastic! supper!
And I want, I need!

紙を超えるmobile widget/ taro site[link]
とにかくイケているMail 端末[link]

However as a phone... there is interesting report about it.

+iphone as a phone-probing the main function[link]
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While in the messaging department we made sure that
the iPhone has almost nothing to it, the phone features
are doing better – it rings, which is a good thing already.
The ergonomics of the phonebook, dialing display and,
basically, everything that has something to do with calls
have been carried over from the past century. Any iPhone
user spends twice as much time on dialing a number –
if you call at least 15 times a day, it will make 6 to 9 hours
a year. Of course it may not seem much at a glance, but in
the end it all leads to tremendous amounts of wasted time.

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Of course, to finish every action in short time is not the
most important things for interface, I think.
We have to think about whole experience. Even if it takes
little bit more second to press the button, as long as people
do not bothered, I think that is Ok, good!
But considering the situation when we got a phone call,
we sometimes are in hurry to catch the call.
So, time is important issue.

Actually, iphone is more than phone.
Usually, the main function of mobile devise is "to make a phone call."
Yet, as for iphone there seems to be no main function.

[Question]
What we wants to do out side of the house/office/school?-activity
So then, what we need?
And how the activity should be, in context/ situation.
>> then, make order of users priority.

p r a g u e 3 6 0

prague360[link]

T i m e m a c h i n e

Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built
right into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything
on your Mac — digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and
documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go
back in time to recover anything.
Apple :The next big thing [link]

miraiha zuga kousaku

They are always too cool.

Log workshop 15/10/07

Fing2.0-what we gonna do in this week![Presentation]
-Technique
-moral/political
-imagner-
-del.icio.us ville 2.0

create truck/some platform where people can re-create/
act by themselves such as
"killer app sur l'internet"
"software above the level of a single device" par O'Reilly:
　comme le la ville ou on peut comporter dans/avec le service?
　as if it is a village which enable for people to act as they like!
New killer appriction (killer app) sur l'internet
flikker?/amazon?

01.vill2.0 definition
02.Synthese tim o'reilly: Internet Operating System
internet could be OS: software above the level of a single device
CNET Japan オイリーのインターネットOS論 [link]
O'Reilly [link]

03.les tags
tagging is the way to create new ways of classification
user oriented classification.
bit similar to index but...

04.RSS RSS reader

05. publication

-tumblr[link]: Simplified Blogging system

Blog+social bookmark いいとこ取りサービス[link]
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もちろん、ソーシャルブックマークで写真や動画のリンクを
クリップすることは今までもできたのですが、tumblrは
リンクではなく画像や写真自体を切り取ってこれるのが
新しいところ。
　クリッピングという手軽な行為であるソーシャルブック
マークサービスと、個人での情報発信というブログの中間に
あたるようなイメージです。
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-jumpcu[link]t: ウェブベースでのビデオ編集

-long tail reseaux sociaux
amazon.com business: 30% of profit of amazon is from long tail business. from

-last.fm[link] social sharing music site?
finding a friends who has same taste of music!( it is possible for music lovers)
Local Event 参加者も可視化されている

Facebook relationship map?( visualization)?

API et Mashup
マッシュアップとは、IT用語としては、複数の異なる提供元の技術や
コンテンツを複合させて新しいサービスを形作ることである。
複数のAPIを組み合わせて形成された、あたかもひとつのWebサービス
であるかのような機能が、マッシュアップと呼ばれている。
from IT用語辞典　[link]

-zillow.com [link]: U.S. house selling site using mashup technique.


-programmableweb.com [link]
general API site!
ProgrammableWeb is where you can keep-up with what's new and
interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform.
It's a directory, a news source, a reference guide, a community.
Because the world's your programmable oyster.

-google map + video/view

-Rollyo[link]:
ROLLYOでは自分だけの検索エンジンを作ることができる。
より具体的に言うと、自分で選択した、信頼のおけるサイト群を
まとめておいてその中からだけ検索できるのだ。

xfruits [link](nice naming!)
With xFruits, mix and make delicious mixtures of feeds for blog,
mobile and startpage.



06.pour aller plus loin
econo

Blog action day[link]:
Similar to the "Tomoko birthday"/ the white band campain


[presentation:ville2.fr]
Idee
01.la ville comme une plate-forme d'innovations ouverte
1.plate-forme for new tech.
donner la ville
l'espas

02.laville complexe...et familiere
-archigram "moving city?"
complextsity - geographically and sociosically
new form of socialization
→give a chance for new sociability

03.une mobilité plus libre et plus durable
More free and more durable mobility
-ecology without feeling guilty
[ex] velibe/candle-night/
-have to think about management process as well
to make it work
parce que il faut pratique/platic?

04.Le 5e ecran　(スクリーン/the fifth layer?）
cinema screen/tv/computer/cell phone/ and 5th ecran what could it be?
belna（べルナ）et Paris
velib more social activity
http://www.velib.paris.fr/

※consider and response for mobility and growth of mobility.

Personalized system.

Multi-transportation
how can we manage the different way of making
navigo card


how can we manage the matter of institution
rechargeable contactless card had been exists since 80s
in France but the can not use it because the institution
hate "change".

[Intradiction]
interdiction: everything is forbidden in France.
ex road
4by4


01.パラドックス about Velib

Q.How can we, who moves a lot, cope with the traditional system?
very much physical staff.
rather than deliver, pick up? / but who?

i-1.How much the night in Paris bright
only night it happens
自転車照明灯を用いたnavi
ベリーブナイト！
same tech. as GPS/You can not see the map/
legend in the city Paris
only the people who lives in particular 区、
they can put information?
[ex]
Nuit Blanche

C a r t i e r

cartier財団美術館[link]

Nice interaction!
Could be interesting way to show coordinates-z.
Not from plan(line) to satelite or plan(line) to satelite
but from plan(line) to higt in 2D graphics!

T r a i n F l o w

Why the trains run smoothly, in Japan

1.Changement of Reservation vhehicles.
In Japan, for Shinkansen(TGV) and limted express, there are
2 types of seat, one is reserved seat and the other is non-researved seat.
Since, usually in front of the vehicle for non-researved, there is a long que.
And that que prevent smooth movement of people who try to get on and get out.
So the company change the number of reserved and non-researved vehicle everytime.
They can keep average rate of use, on the space.


2.Alternate departure
In the popular station, they use both side of one plat home
for one way of one specific train.
In the morning, the train schedule is designed to creat spare
time for each train.
There is always one train on the plat home waiting for other
comes, and the first train wating in the station depart when
the other comes.


3. Special way of applying the "brake".
Once the train make a delay, they apply the techniques of
applying the brake to cut down the time.
When they found the delay, driver apply this technique,
and he can reduce 5 second each "one stop at each station" .
So with 30 stations, the driver can recover 2min30.

Y o u s e e B e r k e l e y

S u i c a

Suica (スイカ, Suica?) is a rechargeable contactless smart card
used as a fare card on train lines in Japan. The card is usable
currently in the Kantō region(JR and other railway and metro),
at JR East stations near Sendai and Niigata, and in the Kinki region
on JR West. Launched in November 2001.
The card is also increasingly being accepted as a form of electronic
money for purchases at stores and kiosks within train stations.
As of April 2007, over 20 million Suica cards were in circulation.

How it is like?


Mobile Suica
Mobile phone works as Suica!
Just enter the information about your credit card using
the site in your mobilephone network.


View Suica
Convination with your credit card.


JAL x Suica
Japan airline with Suica




Interface Design: the Angle of the scanner

To let scanner read Suica, it takes 0.2sec. It's not that much long time.
However, when the reader is placed as flat, people can not wait 0.2sec.
because they wants to swipe it.
However the reader has some angle, people can wait.
Because they touch the scanner with Suica rather than swipe.


Suica/JR East [link]
Suica Design Project (Japanese) [link]

T r a n s i t i o n n a v i g a t i o n

Public transportation navigation service on mobile phone.
In Japan people use mobile phone to find the best way of
moving between two places with public transport.
Just use mobile phone and connect to network(internet)
provided by mobile phone company, such as "Orange world".


How does it work in the site?
There is smalle difference between the service provider but
almost the same.


1. Enter the name of the station where you are and
where you want to go.



2.Enter time and days, and tell your priority of the criteria,
such as time>money>route or so.


3. Then the site shows you some route with order.
With information of time, money, transision time,
and wheater there. In addition, if there is delay,
it shows you that infomation.

As for process no1, there are other oppotunity to find
where you are and whare you are going.
(Depending on the career which you made a contract)


[A.] find where you are with GPS and show
what is the nearest station.



[B] From Memory; the station which you often use.


In addition to these basic service, it provide
other information (1.5 euro/month)
-which number of vehicle is good to change line 5.
-if you run, you can catch the one before.
etc...

[Source]
駅探　Ekitan [link]
ジョルダン　Jorudan[link]