When I say you say

For DWD I’m following up with a bartender tagging project that came out of ITP30′s 1×1 (one project, one day). The concept was a collaborative effort between alumni (stella kim, kristin o’friel) and current student ruxy staicut. The idea is to tag your bar experience and inform a group of friends.

tags table

users table

Link to code:

• signup
• login
• index

Next Steps: have sign up page add new users, develop better table structure so user can share links and be able to access different tags. e.g. $2 pbr special….needs to connect to “when” and “where.”

I worked with Ozge K. on this project.

“So Why speed date? Speed stream date!”

Concept: We wanted to recreate a speed dating experience through online video streaming. Our audience are busy and adventurous individuals that would like to meet new interests based on looks. For the midterm we wanted to create the first stage of the big picture. The first stage is a loop of streams of the participants, which switch every five seconds. We wanted to recreate the first impressions hook that can take you further into our dating journey. Our project was able to display streams from everyone in the class, and have them cycle through randomly until you wanted to stay and talk with that person.

Project Link: SpeedDater (use: User1-User6 as log in for now)

Research: WooMe.com

Tech Involved: JavaScript, PHP, Flash Media Server, Flex.

Next Steps: We had trouble linking each person synchronously. A notification of who has selected you can solve this problem.

Here Ozge and I testing the project with different html pages for the broadcast and player.

I found out I’m a pretty boring date. You shouldn’t be able to speed date yourself.

Jill and I chatting.

Thoughts: The speed dating concept is fun, but I was more interested in the interaction of having random people to talk to for 5 seconds. I once saw a speed date event happening at Royal Tea in LA. I found the whole thing ridiculous and though, what if you only had 5 seconds to impress someone? The nano version if you will of speed dating. Super speed dating…yea ridiculous, but what would you do with a strange if you had 5 seconds?

Now we are sending data to an N95 via blutooth. I was able to use Dan’s code to just simply get the sensor values to have a complete mobile set up. Having said that, I need to use this set up to be able to detect ambient meta and juxtapose (light, temperature, noise) with my brain frequency (electrodes).

This experiment is aimed to complement my midterm “sleepData” (collaboration with Moostafa). I want to be able to collect ambient meta of your sleeping environment.

The video below shows sensor value being transmitted into the n95 sd card with a mobile processing sketch.

Bluetooth data to n95 from diego rioja on Vimeo.

I’m also curious to use this and collect data from consciousness, to see how distracted I am by noise, lighting conditions, and temperature. Hopefully this experiment can help me understand my own sensors and how can they affect my concentration. The use of an accelerometer  to tell which way I’m looking at is being though.

Michael Kelberman and I are working on BKPK, which is a system that will encourage neighbors to collaborate in a friendly and safe parking environment.

BKPK = social parking

Currently we have twitter and Facebook Causes as @BKLNBK #BKPK

bklnpk@gmail.com

Our first goal is to create an SMS based service with IMIFIED that can enable users with any mobile phone to use our service. Presentation link below, please comment.

The blueSmirf is a bluetooth component which can transmit serial data to a bluetooth enabled device. I used my computer to test this out before going into a mobile device.

I’m also using a 9v with a 5v regulator to make this circuit completely wireless (the regulator was incorporated after i burnt my accelerometer).

Dan worked with me and fixed the transmission problem i was having. Lesson learned: check baud rate of transmission. The blueSmirf gold has a default baud rate of 115200. The quick fix was to change this on the arduino side. If you want to always connect to the smirf with the standard 9600 then you’ll have to program the smirf through Zterm using $$$ to start the CMD line. Make sure you reset the smirf to get results. Here is a list of commands to change this setting. Check page 4.2 Change commands. ex. U, 9600, E (sets baud rate to 9600, parity to even).

Realization: I’ve figured to ditch the accelerometer wearable idea to a set of sensors that can measure consciousness while you sleep. Having a photocell, a microphone, thermal sensor, and egg connected to the Arduino can give me a better sense of the effects of your surroundings on brain waves.

Questions: How much light and noise is needed to wake me up or alter sleep? Could there be a correlation between your sleeping environment and your dreams?

I’m working with Ozge Kirimlioglu on a live speed dating service project. “So why just date? speed date”

Using:

• Flash As
• JavaScript
• Ajax

We’ll create a conference style stream to connect two people with similar interest. The idea is to give them a speed dating experience on the computer by creating a micro relationship with different limitations.

System:

• Sign in
• People Browse (from a pool, add to queue)
• Date!

The goal of the system is to go on a real date after you’ve found someone you are interested in.

Stages:

• First impressions (no audio, just video) 5-seconds
• Get to know (add props, with audio) 30-seconds
• Get to know more (unlimited chat)

At anytime you have the option to switch to another date back to the first stage.

Rating system: You can rate your dates!

Research:

how speed-dating works

woome

I’m using  ITP’s flash media server to create a player and broadcaster style stream of foosball matches here at the floor.

I used the Flex SDK compiler (via terminal) to create swf files.

So last night I attached a USB webcam to my MacPro and Streamed a few foosball matches.

I added a chat so people could comment on the game that was happening.

Michael Kelberman and I are working on BK PK, which is a system that will encourage neighbors to collaborate and create a safe parking environment.

Statement:
Social Parking as counter measure, prevention of parking tickets to lessen burden on drivers.

Audience:
Car owners in the neighborhood.

Problem:

• scarcity of parking
• looking for parking can be a waste of time
• waste of gas
• unsafe parking
• parking maid lack of human understanding
• double offenses.

Goals:
coordinating a community to create a friendlier parking experience that can:

• save money, time, gas
• safety
• inform

Strategy:

Concept, Brand, Inform, Test

• Inform our community via twitter, facebook, blogs, emails.
• Working Prototype
• Link neighbors with information
• User Testing

Software:

• IMfied
• SmartPhone Apps.

System:

Your Community:

• Swap spaces
• Send tips and reminders
• Message board

DOT database + Google maps Mash-up (to be renamed)

• List all types parking in the area
• Route to desired parking
• Connect back to Community
• Rate
• Comment

Here Sara B, Filippo V, and I worked on a group stream chat. Three screens on a page + chat. We created a performance piece with individual perspectives that pushed us to be creative. Having three streams stacked vertically or horizontally together lends the option to play. I like how we, the presenters, were stimulated by the juxtaposition of the screens, which led to create different forms of ourselves.

Here is my version

Justin.tv now can give you tv shows such as southpark for you to watch whenever you can and chat on the side. Television is dead for me, I really dislike this hot medium. Once shows are streamed online with chat. It’s not television anymore, it’s something else that has potential to interact.

I’m getting into Qik recently. It gives me the choice of broadcasting what I want from where I want. Mobile streaming is more dynamic than life-casting from you laptop.

Eclipse: Setting it up is quite difficult. Specially to read serial data.

• Project properties: bring in processing’s core + serial library jars (serial and RXTXcomm jars)
• RXTXcomm jar connects to librxtxSerial.jnilib which is a file you have reference.
• librxtxSerial.jnilib needs to be referenced from RXTX’s properties native library.
• Remember to update your FTDI drivers

I placed an accelerometer on my chest, using duck-tape to secure the breadboard, on Sunday night (oct, 4) and logged some of my movements.

Something must have happened in the morning that made me turn. Maybe the sun was trying to wake me up. Dangerous self defense mechanism.

I was curious to see how I slept. This basic data visualization gave me good ideas.

Next steps will be to send data to computer via blutooth with electrodes + accelerometer. Wiring electrodes to my brain to see the frequency of sleep with the acclrmtr combo could give me a better sense of see sleeping positions give better frequencies.