Video Sketch
Background
Taking pictures in a meeting or branstorming session is a common activity that I want to explore for this assignment. It is very interesting that those visual impressions that brought by photos could help us associating the notes that we’ve written down with the environment that we were in. And those pictures can serve not exclusively for a post-meeting organizing, but also as a tool for real-time discussion and modification during the meeting.
System Description
The insTag is a system that aims to help one intuitively capturing ideas and rapidly evolving them with others in a meeting situation. It has a hacked camera, that connects to the cloud. The camera contains also a printer, which will print only text of location and time of the shooting moment. Besides the camera, the system has a webcam, a projector and a whiteboard.
In a meeting scenario, one can use this camera to make digital pictures of any thing he or she finds interesting. A print with authentic time and location will be generated by the camera at the same time. The digital pictures are automatically linked with the prints, which allows one freely writing notes on. When the prints are pasted on the white board, the webcam recognizes each of them because of the uniqueness of time. The linked digital pictures will be then projected on the board for discussion. One can also make a layered modification of the picture’s content on the board. By wiping the print, the webcam will take a picture of the modification and link it with the respective print. The next time when the print is pasted again on the board, a history of the modification will be projected along as well.
In the end, we will have physical tags of the inspiring moments and discussions from a meeting. As physical objects, those tags are easy to organize and retrieve. And most important, the process of making and retrieving them is intuitive.