Category: 05

My first (and favorite ;-0) idea for my Soli project is a song generator for your loved ones. By reaching toward the Soli sensor at various angles and speeds, you create a melody that in turn generates a song, ideally with lyrics generated after analyzing the lyrics of lullabies and love songs. Complete with an animated dog who sings the songs and a few different modes (lullaby for children, party song for friends, romantic song for lovers, etc.), this app is sure to entertain.

My second idea is a visual party with friends. When you and your friends enter the same room in the party, you can collectively control the loveliest, most beautiful and intricate designs. Shared music and lights are enough to make you feel at ease with your friends.

My third, and admittedly least developed, idea is a group meal planner. When you enter the app you can select how long you have to cook in preparation for a lovely group meal with your friends. You can then select what you want to bring to the table, quite literally. The app then guides you through the cooking steps, offering instructions and timers.

I like this one the best. The user is “god”. They receive a world per swipe. If they tap, they unleash a plague onto their believers and increase piety. If their presence is detected, people stop and pray. Otherwise, they go about their business and build the world. If god swipes, they get another randomly generated set of believers moseying around

This game is zoo: the user is given a set of animals they can swipe through. They need to figure out which interaction which will yeild a positive reaction from the creature given. pat the dog, let the snake setting down (here a negative interaction works). Stay where the bear can see you, or it will attack, etc.

A relaxing game where the user is given a zen garden. They tap to add or remove random features. They swipe to get a new garden. And their presence activates wind, rain, natural forces.

Digital garden – visual + connect

Concept: generative garden scene with different views everyday made up of a selection of plants, stone roads, insects and flowers.

Interactions: stand in front of the phone (presence) to light up the scene, swipe to add wind/pollen particles to the garden, tap to take screenshot of the garden to send to twitter bot

 

Choir – visual + audio

Concept: create a short looping sound composition by assigning different types of sound samples to the animated characters. 

Interactions: swipe to add continuous sounds/swish/chord progressions, tap to add percussion/single notes/bell sounds…

(Additional interaction: selecting the exact character for the sound and choosing bpm?)

Something to start with:

How to compose a loop that does not sound too random but personalized enough for users to play around with?

Sound: additional library (p5 sound, tone.js?)

*Inspiration: Chrome music lab

 

Sandwich generator – visual + connect

Concept: a tower-builder type game that instead of tower you build a sandwich with pieces of ingredients falling from top of the screen. 

Interactions: Tap to catch the ingredients and swipe for switching out those you don’t want.

Ingredients would be an assortment of edible ingredients (e.g. cheese, lettuce, tomato…) and non-edible ingredients (e.g. wheels, lego blocks, batteries, laptops…) 

You will get a score based on how edible your final sandwich is!

Something to start with:

Scoring: automatically scored or get another person to score?

Connect with IFTTT: send sandwich screenshots to twitter bot?

Visual: 2D, physics simulation? (With additional library)

 

Soli Sketches

1. Something Visual: Candle Fire Simulation

I had an idea of creating a candle app, where the user can interact with a candle, something which is hard to access nowadays and something for kids to “play with fire” without actually playing with fire.

The candle will shift and sway like any fire would to the motion of the hand, where swiping your hand across the screen will distort the flame, potentially burning it out. If the candle burns out, or the flame gets smaller, one can lightly tap (soli sensor) and the flame will rekindle again. Tapping consistently will grow the flame, and putting both hands around it will nurture the flame, similar in doing so to start a fire or to protect a flame from burning out.

2. Something that Connects: Spam E-mail cleaner

This idea could be made possibly by one of the IFTTT Applets, which has features that can let yourself send an e-mail to yourself, which I think could substitute the act of moving an e-mail into spam. Ideally, I had an idea that one can mark e-mail from unwanted senders (Advertisements, in my case, Taco Bell) in just a swipe. I figured that this could be a very useful way of quickly getting rid of all the junk emails that exist in your inbox.

The feature also comes with a tap feature, where if you tap your hand above the soli sensor, or phone, it will mark every single e-mail on your page as “read” or “seen”. When having an e-mail open, such as an advertisement from your favorite Fast Food Restaurant which you don’t wanna see, a swipe to the left will ask to “Report Spam & Unsubscribe”, and a following tap will do the thing.

3. Something that relates to space: Rock Skipper

I had simple idea of creating a virtual Rock-Skipping app which allows you to skip rocks form 5 feet away, where the phone can be placed on the ground or on the desk. The angle which you throw the rock will depend on the location of the phone, where having the phone in a position where your throw, or movement in the arm would have the best results the more parallel the rock is to the ground.