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FamilyStories

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FamilyStories  The Three Different Computational Artifacts of FamilyStories Hi there! This is a video-based demonstration for our asynchronous audio storytelling devices called FamilyStories. FamilyStories includes three different computational artifacts that look into three main design factors considered for connecting families over different time zones.  The three artifacts are called Timeknot, Spark, and Kinetic. You can learn more about them in this video. FamilyStories Introduction Overview of the Circuit and Inner Design For FamilyStories we designed and created the circuitry and the exterior design through the iterative design process. We tried to keep the design simple and minimalistic so it will stimulate the creativity of our participants in using the system in the desired way. Here is a photo of the inner design of each device Inner Circuit Upper View Inner Circuit and the Main Microcontroller Recording a Story For connecting with your family
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NPR Project week 6 and 7

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In these two weeks we improved our program which we have listed some of  them in the prior blog. 1) The timer is fixed and now its 45 second and it will start to countdown when the user starts to draw 2) The ability to share your drawing on facebook is finally there  (like like like :D ) 3) The eraser is fixed and now each stroke can be erased by the user's decision and the rest of the strokes are safe from being deleted. 4) The head of the lines are now like half of a circle for a better looking result . 5) We also added an option for chosing the colors in each category since someone might like to have the colors in a way that its arranged by herself/himself. then after completing the above tasks we started writing the paper that we are hoping to submit it to a publication, So that was a summary of what was going on in these two weeks. I'll update the blog as soon as I can :D
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NPR project week 3,4,5

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A  major load was in our schedule in previous weeks we had reading break, midterms and etc. and little by little in timeslot that we could find or on weekends we tried to improve our program:  OK  so lets get started! Most of the work has been done from early days in July until the previous Monday. In this time period we worked on: Colouring for the user's drawing   We basically thought of dividing the shapes in the user's drawing into two categories: 1)Lines and curves   2) Polygons and closed boundaries The closed boundaries and almost closed boundaries are programmed to be filled with a random colour picked from variety of colours that are listed for each mood. The sharper and more vivid colours  from the book "guide to communicating with color" have been used for moods such as happy, energetic; softer colour has been used for moods such as romantic or sleepy, list of the categories used for each mood are listed below:                   
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NPR Project Week 2

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15-June-2012   to   22-June-2012 In this week we worked on the code for the simple framework, so that the user can draw and erase, also a simple window was designed for choosing the mood. We categorized our work in days to come as below: An algorithm which can identify closed regions for filling with colors. Choosing colors based on the mood of the user (we want to use Fuzzy theory for combining colors). Making contrast and brightness in each region of the user drawing. Studying related works for the three first steps.
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NPR project week 1

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8-June-2012  to  15-June-2012 In this week we have decided  the basic steps of our work. Some workloads were defined for indivual and some works such as coding and some branches  has been defined as group activities. After talking and discussing different criteria we finally agreed on some conventions which we presented in the class on Thursday. I'll update the blog for the next week  :)
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