Bed_data

For the Rest Of You final Mustafa Bagdatli and I will be continuing working on Bed_Data, which is a matrix of DIY-FSRs which detects pressure and location on a surface. This is currently installed on ITP’s “nap station.” The plan is to log users’ bed behavior to tell a story.

I asked myself: What are my bed stories and how is my bed making me happy?

The bed as a gestural interface.

Ideally we want to recognize body gestures to control visualizations for different bed behaviors. From sitting down to sleeping with your significant other, these body gestures need to be recognized before we go any further with this project.

How do we interact with a bed?

1. Sitting or laying? These are the basic gestures to recognize, and most common interactions with a bed. This is our first gesture recognition goal.

2. How are you sleeping? Sleep can be recognized by detecting different positions. What is a user’s most common sleeping position? How long does a user keep any position through out sleep? How can a user’s sleeping position define the user? Depending on the sleep stage, could the user have different sleeping positions according to that stage?

3. How well are you sleeping with your partner? Is it a better experience? Do users have good sleeping chemistry? Could this be a reflection of the relationship?

4. What about sexytime? As young adults this is obviously the most fun activity you can do on your bed. How much sex? For how long? What comes after sex? Do you cuddle much?

Twitter?

A few friends envisioned and encapsulated a scenario as a conversation around the bed:

Wife: “Hey honey, we haven’t made the bed tweet in a while”

Husband: “Well, I have been so stress at work that…..”

Bed intelligence

If a bed could talk, what would it say? Giving a bed consciousness through this FSR matrix makes me wonder how a bed sees the user? How can a bed give the user feedback? I think through logging data, bed_data can probably know you better than you know yourself, in bed. Are you on or off your bed? For how long? Are you getting enough sleep? What are you lacking? These are some questions that could be answered.

Bed_Games

1. The bed can be a controller (up, down, left, right, and button) for a video game scenario. Using left and right movements, which proved to be the more natural ones, there is enough control to do a simple game.

2. While you are having sex you could be inspired with a visualization that is playful and encouraging. Some say love moves the world, and with this in mind. How can love making move the world?

There are multiple activities a user does on a bed that can tell a story. From reading a book to having the time of your life. So we are asking ourselves how can we visualize this for user feedback.

Proposal

We first aim to detect a user’s bed behavior starting by recognizing patterns of sitting, laying down, sleeping, or having sex. By logging this data there could be a lot of insight on a user’s life, in bed. Our goal is to recognize bed gestures.

The bed as a controller. We are brainstorming of a first person game that simulates racing or traveling. We are still debating weather a bobsledding game or a space adventure. The interaction will be created by applying pressure to different areas of the bed that translate to a game controller.