Week 10: Getting the word out and final touches For week 10, my role was contacting different Westphal organizations to get the word out to people to attend our performance. I contacted various different Discords and was able to get our graphics posted to the Drexel Westphal Instagram, which I think increased our turnout by…

Now that our final was coming up, we had to prepare to get the word out and also make sure everything runs smoothly with a dress rehearsal. We also got feedback in class that we should use the dress rehearsal as a way to user test and see how uncomfortable people get or if they…

This week in class we got feedback that we need to work on our visual effects and triggers to indicate to our users that their touches are causing discomfort and actually doing something. As a result, I was assigned to find relevant VFX and design implementation. Fog implementation Since our performance is meant to push…

I was unable to attend class this week due to some ongoing health concerns, but I was able to join the touch team to bring the touch aspect and motion aspect of the project together. To achieve this, we needed to determine a couple things: To test this, we did a basic simulation of how…

Brainstorming and setting goals As we came closer to the final, we wanted to get closer to a working prototype. This meant that we wanted to start experimenting with ways that a trigger (in our case, a touch) could start a visual animation or change. Thus, this week, I was put on the virtual stage…

For this week, our group took the feedback from the professor and integrated it into the newest iteration of our project idea. Our new idea would splits the audience into two spaces: the general viewing area (Hallway) and the performance stage (Room). In the hallway, there would be cheery music and displays a screen showing…

This week, I was assigned to the touch team alongside Preeti, Lauren, and Kaenan. Our goal for this week was to do more research what the best options were for us to make the touch aspect of our project functional. We already attained a capacitive touch sensor from Emil, but we wanted to condcut more…

A pivot in idea Unfortunately, this week I was feeling under the weather so I was unable to come to class. However, I was updated that our group had pivoted from our original idea, which was an interactive costume that responds to varying types of touch with matching moods of procedurally generated music and more…

Dividing into teams & idea generation This week, our main task in class was starting the project and splitting into groups. I chose to go into the more artistic/performance based group in hopes of designing the UI for any wearables. Our idea is very similar to the idea I submitted in the discussion board: https://cdm.link/2021/09/movements-to-music-as-instruments-of-things-goes-live-on-kickstarter-with-sensor-system/.…