So after hearing the opening talk by Lee, I have had a couple early ideas for this project. Mainly from the first term and some others using some of the aspects from the 1st part of this term.
The first of the ideas has come from one of my group mates. After the initial Stonehouse work, me and Louis Wood both seemed to latch onto the history of the location. Louis especially liked the whole mystery surrounding the performance by the world famous escape artist Harry Houdini. So he came up with an idea, where we would use an Arduino board to monitor the movement of the public in a certain area, then as a member of the public approached a certain area an animation of Harry Houdini would play. This idea is quite cool mainly because I like the idea of scaring members of the public.
The second of the ideas is one of my own this time. I thought I could carry on with the work of my 1st part, where I was monitoring and recording reactions to the site. I thought I could then project the heartbeat of people as they moved around the area. I’m not totally sure as to how I could produce this or where I would project, however I think I might look into this a bit more yet.
The third and final idea is an idea from the final member of our group, Luke. His idea is to use the movement routes of the public in our site, then project them back down onto the ground behind them. This would then give the effect of the public actually leaving a trail behind them. Once a number of people have walked through the area, there would be multiple trails and hopefully something interesting drawn on the ground.
I think all 3 of these ideas could be worked further and will post again when I know more about what were going to do. Time for a team meeting I believe!
