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What is it?
A device to show the distance to another person in a funny way. You can wear it like a watch, or it can be included in clothing.
What is the goal:
To make people aware that they have to find the right distance in every relation, and that, if they come too close to another...then even the best friendships can come to a miserable end....give each person the space and the air she or he needs!
This is a very easy interactive device to make (because all the difficult parts are in the hardware - but ... you have to buy this hardware to make life easy...). The device indicates the right distance to another person, not too far away and not too close. It shows the right distance with an 8x8 representation of a heart. You have to find this heart! (Which might be a different distance for each person.)
Well that is the game!
by-wire and contrechoc.com presented this micro RGB-LED screen at the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam 2011.
In discussions with women about this idea, they told us that they know this distance intuitively
and they were offended to leave this "human distance sensing" to electronic devices!!!
But men, more insensitive to body language and small hints found it very useful.
You can easily change the icons and even the concept. You could change the sensor (an LDR would be great to add, making this device function at night and not in the bright sun!)
Playing around with an RGB led matrix, even a small one like this, 8x8 is very nice, and a totally different experience from a one color LED block.
The Arduino doesn't change the icons too fast, reflecting that humans take time to adapt, you can make it react faster in the software.
Our goal was to make this a bracelet for your arm or leg. Of course the Arduino has to be powered so you stay connected, or you have to use a battery pack.
A device to show the distance to another person in a funny way. You can wear it like a watch, or it can be included in clothing.
What is the goal:
To make people aware that they have to find the right distance in every relation, and that, if they come too close to another...then even the best friendships can come to a miserable end....give each person the space and the air she or he needs!
This is a very easy interactive device to make (because all the difficult parts are in the hardware - but ... you have to buy this hardware to make life easy...). The device indicates the right distance to another person, not too far away and not too close. It shows the right distance with an 8x8 representation of a heart. You have to find this heart! (Which might be a different distance for each person.)
Well that is the game!
by-wire and contrechoc.com presented this micro RGB-LED screen at the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam 2011.
In discussions with women about this idea, they told us that they know this distance intuitively
and they were offended to leave this "human distance sensing" to electronic devices!!!
But men, more insensitive to body language and small hints found it very useful.
You can easily change the icons and even the concept. You could change the sensor (an LDR would be great to add, making this device function at night and not in the bright sun!)
Playing around with an RGB led matrix, even a small one like this, 8x8 is very nice, and a totally different experience from a one color LED block.
The Arduino doesn't change the icons too fast, reflecting that humans take time to adapt, you can make it react faster in the software.
Our goal was to make this a bracelet for your arm or leg. Of course the Arduino has to be powered so you stay connected, or you have to use a battery pack.
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Needed components:
hardware:
Some sort of distance sensor: SRF02 (in this case I2C communication) 15 euro's
Arduino, 25 euro's
Color shield (www.iteadstudio.com) 15 dollar
RGB 8x8 ledblock (www.iteadstudio.com) 15 dollar
(USB connection)
some electric wires
software
the Arduino sketch
http://www.contrechoc.com/
the colorduino library
http://www
extra:
some textile to put the stack of hardware in
hardware:
Some sort of distance sensor: SRF02 (in this case I2C communication) 15 euro's
Arduino, 25 euro's
Color shield (www.iteadstudio.com) 15 dollar
RGB 8x8 ledblock (www.iteadstudio.com) 15 dollar
(USB connection)
some electric wires
software
the Arduino sketch
http://www.contrechoc.com/
the colorduino library
http://www
extra:
some textile to put the stack of hardware in
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Another extraordinary project, and even exposed it on Picnic!
Nice this comfort-zone-warning-system. But also something that could make people even less using their natural and authentic qualities for social behavior and fitting etiquette.
In this context indeed, the wedding butterfly is more positive, I guess. Lets try to make a next, most positive, expression tool the next time! Nice goal, isn't it?
Yours sincerely,
by-wire.neta