Class Admin
I’ve made a request that Tuesday’s work class be held in A10. Will email an update.
Looking Outword comments
dark skies as a source of crowd-sourced weather data, scrape data from https://darksky.net/forecast/40.4346,-79.8655/us12/en
Interfering with sensors goes back to “Dazzle Camouflag”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
Virag Varga’s research on devices that communicate with one another through skin: https://dl.acm.org/profile/99658719699
State machine transitions
Documenting a state machine: Omnigraffle (mac) vs. SmartDraw (win10) vs. ??? (linux) vs. whiteboard
A finite(explain) state machine needs states, transitions, and actions (transitions that do things)
Example: UI button that changes screen color has a state variable with the current color
state machines in video games, hierarchies of state machines
how do we define a transition from one state to another?
– segue: pan, wipe, blur
– alert:
– microwave ding when it’s finished heating
– countdown timer to start an event (from waiting -> running)
– elevator alerts
what can visual output replace? sound? motion?
babymonitor that translates sound to video
GFCI sound vs. click
replace sound warning with video flash
ubicoustics: http://www.gierad.com/projects/ubicoustics/
how can we replace sound from a state machine with visual queues?
what sounds are important in state machines and what sound are decorations?
keyclicks on/off phone
annoying car noises
car sounds effects
Reading/research links not discussed in class
Discuss tempo of sound
visualizing sound waves
https://vimeo.com/partitura
visualizing music:
Vibrant Data Visualizations of Famous Classical Music Scores Burst with Color
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQH9-hWxELNCv47z2O5nfg
Visualization of language
ASL: https://www.handspeak.com/
Braile: http://www.brailleauthority.org/formats/2011manual-web/index.html
Visual communication examples
Arrival — read “The Story of Your Life”
the movie version: https://www.space.com/35696-arrival-movie-alien-language-explained.html
99pi episodes 50 “Deafspace” (Gaulludet) and 126 “Walk This Way” (wayfinding)
When your senses get crossed, Synesthesia