Team = Haeyoung + Kritika + Marc + Yan + Carolyn

Idea 1. Water Idea

• Perpetuates change
• Represents surface and underlying information
• Transforms information

Concepts

1. Put a matrix under the water surface and control them, then user can see it make waves or ripples.
2. Flexing water bag to see color changes (reflection, patterns)

Application Ideas

1. Project Management
2. Visualizing Impact Data

Idea 2. Shape Display

• Shape display portable and scalable
• Transforms information

Idea 3. Radical Dimension

• Shape display as tool to understand 4th spatial dimension.

Motivation

• Curiosity about the 4th spatial dimension= what does a 4D object/ world look like?…. How can we experience them in a more intuitive way?
• Take advantage of fundamental difference between 3D shape display and 2D pixel display= 1 more spatial dimension.

Understanding 4D

Application

• Education/ Experiencing 4th spatial dimension
• Mathematical training/ Graphic understanding
• High-dimensional data visualization

Platform

• Table shape display-inform
• Levitational shape dispaly- LEV
• Interactive 4D toy

Interface

1. Gestures to control the slices, projections and shadows

2. Eye location (3D) + Hand Gesture (1D) = 4D Viewpoint Location resulting 3D projection geometry change.

3. Tangible interaction – give force to make object rotate in 4D space

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As for the water one, you can either create a novel shape changing technique for water, or propose novel compelling applications (of-course having both is ideal!). There are amazing technology for creating computational ripples 1, 2. Imagining applications for these machine could be interesting. Thinking about reflection sounds interesting but hard. There are a lot of water related works, so do survey and find the niche! I did water-related one last year so I can also help

Portable Shape Display – I would focus on one compelling device/form factor and propose various interaction techniques and concrete applications.

4D – Can people really learn what 4D is with 3D shape changing interfaces? I would like to see it working but I imagine it would be just a random crazy physical animation as a result. Eye and hand gesture thing makes no sense for me. Using GUI seems easier to understand what’s going on.

It is my personal experience with babies are a bit frustrating because they are not able to express their feelings or needs. Every time I spend time with my nephews or nieces, in general babies, I do not know what they want or how they feel exactly, and most of time spending time to figure out what they want. However, most of  first time parents have similar experiences as well . From this experience, I had a concept that clothes, socks or bracelets which can detect babies’ emotion/ temperature/motions or position and analyze them and show the info as tangible way. In this way, parents or people like me can see the info and get sense of what they need or how they feel. It can detect emotions by establishing sensors that can detect heartbeats or body temperature, and change colors or texture of  clothes with auditory applications.

It also can be very useful for children who need to be disciplined at home or in class. A lot of researches show that children get hurt emotionally or humiliated while being scolded but do not express it. This can effect to form their relationship with parents and personality.

For example, a tennis player (any kind of sports) needs to practice or play. When a ball hits the wall, depending on the ball pressure, a spot on the wall will start to deform and be jammed. (Surface of wall or floor is deformed by pressure measured by pressure sensor.) Spots and shapes will be remained till a person resets the surface.

A player can reset the surface at anytime. In addition, a player can change a mode of surface and interact with it. By touching a certain spot, information including player’s gesture, pressure on balls, direction, speed of the time when a player throw the ball will be visualized. Or a person can download app to monitor his activity and information via portable devices.

I am Haeyoung Kim, Harvard Mdes Technology first year. I am interested in projects which take advantage of  the full range of human senses in order to create a dialogue between people, information, and space. As a designer, I will try to break outside of general digital(2D) methods of working in search of new, more tactile and experimental modes in this course.

I graduated from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and my background is art and Industrial Design. I have participated group works with engineers and business people as well. I have some experience of fabrication. (laser cutting, molding, casting, ceramic slip casting, wood and metal, milling etc) I am willing to learn something new and very excited about this class!

Please contact me if you have any question.

hkim1@gsd.harvard.edu

Expertise:

★★★☆ Fabrication & Craft
★★★★ Design
☆☆☆☆ Electronics
★☆☆☆ Programming
☆☆☆☆ Biology
☆☆☆☆ Chemistry