Sunday, June 9, 2013

Individual contribution - Interactivity development

Confirmed interactivity for Vivid festival :

  The closer people standing in front of structure, the less LED will be lit up, the further , the more .

Hardware chosen : Arduino UNO
Image copied from : http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/ArduinoUno_r2_front450px.jpg


Sensor chosen : Ultrasonic ( Ping ) sensor
Image copied from :http://cloud2.lbox.me/images/384x384/201208/us-100-ultrasonic-sensor-module-with-temperature-compensation-range-for-arduino_ksxpjy1346397831272.jpg


What ping sensor does is it sets off signals toward any objects that are in its sensing range, when signal bounces back to sensor, it calculates the distance of the detected object and the sensor itself. In simple terms, ping sensor tests distances. 



Here is my own setup for Arduino with ping sensor and multiple LEDs:




Individual Contribution - Structure modelling & Script testing for interactivity

  Below are some images showing me working with other team members with modelling the structure at Redfern Studio and testing grasshopper code for interactivity on site.

Structure modelling at Redfern Studio with team members .

Structure modelling at Redfern Studio with team members .

Structure modelling at Redfern Studio with team members .

Structure modelling at Redfern Studio with team members .
Soldering electrical cables and taping them down for water proof .

Because all LED cables we had are black, they have to be spray painted into white to match the color of structure.


Spray painting LED strings to white in order to match the color of structure.

Testing grasshopper script for interactivity on site .

Photo shoot of grasshopper viewport on site .

Every posts above this are materials for individual contribution and assessment .

Every blog entries that are posted on 9 June are materials for individual contribution and assessment .

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Review on group presentation - Kinecting the boxes - Conflict

  This is the second group presenting about Conflict for this week . 
  They started with defining conflict and certain factors towards it . Couple of self-answer questions gave us a general understanding of what conflict means and how important it is to people. They've also given some options to resolve conflicts such as being open minded, focus on real issues but not on personality traits . The way two parties reacting to each other remains the same until a solution is provided. When conflict occurs within group, all need to sit down and talk to each other calmly without being angry or feeling despair. All members have to force themselves to come up with a general solution to their conflict as the best way of making sure their works are going well as planned . They've also mentioned of benefits and negatives of resolution conflict.
  For their oral presentation, I found that they had too much reading, content of oral speech is pretty much same as what they have written on presentation slides, and some of them have to raise their voice for a bit to ensure people sitting at the back could hear them clearly . 

Review on group presentation - DCLD- Conflict

In this week , we had two groups presenting issue of conflict.
For group DCLD, it's easy to tell that they are well prepared for their presentation, especially for presentation slides, well done. But unfortunately their oral presentation sounded similar to what that have written on screen, too much reading over presentation slides with low voice made it a little worse to audience . Good examples of talking about the conflict between Apple and Samsung, and it was even better to bring the definition of conflict in real with their own experience between their group members. This made us easier to understand what happened to them when data clashed on BIM and redoing tasks that were meant to be shared. Also, those images of resolution and critical path analysis provided were impressive as they are eye-catching still images. They also summarized by giving solutions of avoiding conflict within teams :

  •   Listening
  •   Open mindness
  •   Act immediately
  •   Get together and talk 1 by 1
  •   Think above other people's needs
Before the end of their presentation, they showed the list of references of images and examples that they have covered in their presentation slides, it would be better if they referenced as they go , not at the last second. But overall it was good effort, well done.