Looking Outwards 09

Work Title: Skataviz

Artist: Emily Gobeille, creator of high-end interactive installations for children

https://www.design-io.com/projects/skataviz

Emily is an artist and designer who specializes in the disciplines of installations, motion graphics, and web design. She is enthusiastic about employing technology and art combined to tell stories and create playful moments for people. As a designer for a segmented group, Emily has to spend a lot of time studying that user group’s behavioral characteristics and preferences in order to make effective designs. The Skataviz is an experimental project by Design I/O that uses interactive elements of an iPhone/iPod to record the motion of a skateboard. The motion is then visualized in 3D presentation through a video. The designer applies features of the gyroscope and accelerometer sensors of the mobile device to construct data on rotation, velocity changes, angles, and the board’s movement. In this project, openFrameworks is the primary tool used for both sensor recording and desktop visualization.