der hess http://blog.derhess.de am medialen werkeln Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:07:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Designing Subspaces: Hermits in our digital Age http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/26/designing-subspaces-hermits-in-our-digital-age/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/26/designing-subspaces-hermits-in-our-digital-age/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:07:17 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1373
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    • ]]>     In my class PublicSpaces 2.0 from the space & design strategies department we discussed the connections between social media and public spaces. Also some design theory aspects were included into the discussion. In my case I introduced the lifestyle of hermits. Hermits create a kind of subspaces in urban or nature environments. These subspaces have got their own system and rules. Our current culture is characterized by fast technical developments and accelerated lifestyles. That includes travelling over big distances, moving often, huge information perception via social media services, etc.  In some life periods these circumstances are not healthy. They cause long-term stress symptoms, losing creativity and so on. In this case the lifestyle of hermits can give an inspiration for creating a subspace in our urban environment.  A subspace, which minimize these aspects of acceleration and creating an appropriate environment for each individual. In my presentation and in my paper I don't say that the solitary lifestyle of the hermits is optimal. A good environment has to provide also a stable social enviromnent with friends and partners. I am just using the hermit lifestyle for some design approaches and for getting inspired.

    View more presentations from Florian Weil.

    Furthermore, I describe in my paper how people become unconsciously and consciously an hermit. Becoming unconsciously a hermit could lead to some conflicts in our society. The key aspects of Reduction and Filtering in designing Intertactive Media play an important role for solving this issues. More detailed explanations of my thoughts are written down in my PDF paper.

    PDF PAPER: Hermits in our digital Age

    Links of my presentation

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/26/designing-subspaces-hermits-in-our-digital-age/feed/ 1     Mr. Doobs Harmony drawing APP ported to MAX / MSP http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/08/mr-doobs-harmony-drawing-app-ported-to-max-msp/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/08/mr-doobs-harmony-drawing-app-ported-to-max-msp/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:23:52 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1358

    For exploring the JavaScript API in MAX / MSP / Jitter I decided to port the Harmony Web Application by Mr. Doob. I really fall in love with the different brush styles. MAX / MSP / Jitter is pretty cool for doing audio visual stuff, and I think the different brush style might be nice for this. Fortunately, Mr. Doob published the source code and the code is nice, too! Therefore, it was not so difficult to understand the code.  During my porting process I had to consider four things:

    1. Object Oriented Programming and working with more JavaScript files don't work so easily in Max/MSP. For the reason of simplicity (and KISS), I decided to write everything in one JavaScript file.
    2. JSUI (JavaScrip UI) in Max/MSP does not support the normal drawing functions. I had to port the drawing functions to OPEN GL drawing functions. Which is also positive for the perfomance, I think...
    3. The coordinate system is different. I had to transform the Pixel values to the OpenGL coordinate system.
    4. MAX /MSP does not support the standard Interval function setInterval. The JavaScript Object Task is the substitute. In the end I think it is a cleaner solution

    After dealing with these minor obstacles, everything worked fine. I was quite surprised how good the JavaScript performed in Max/MSP. Furthermore, in combination with Jitter and other available Max/MSP Objects you can rock with JavaScript!

    For a better understanding, I created a short introduction video clip. It shows how to use the JSUI Canvas and how to use the programmable input channels. In my example zip file is included one Max patch, which works with colorTracking as an input channel. Choose your cam input, and afterwards click in the camera picture which color should be tracked. In the end it gives you an inspiration how different we can interact with the canvas.

    Mr. Doob was disappointed a little bit, how the people used his source code. So please keep in mind his blog post and share your code changes. I also publised my source code on google code.

    Download  Harmony for Max/MSP/JITTER

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/08/mr-doobs-harmony-drawing-app-ported-to-max-msp/feed/ 3     My most important Twitter Messages #6 http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/05/my-most-important-twitter-messages-6/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/05/my-most-important-twitter-messages-6/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:13:36 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1343
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    • ]]>     Twitter von der hess
    A small summary of my Twitter messages from March - June 2010:

    Allgemein (General)

    Generative Art:

    Info Design and Visualization

    UX and Interaction Design:

    Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

    Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

    Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

    Physical Computing

    Game Developing:

    Flash and Flex

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/07/05/my-most-important-twitter-messages-6/feed/ 0     Creative Coding Tools, which is the best? http://blog.derhess.de/2010/06/02/creative-coding-tools-which-is-the-best/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/06/02/creative-coding-tools-which-is-the-best/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:15:00 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1308
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    • ]]>     Now I am almost studying Interactive Art for one year. Me, as a Flash and Flex Developer, like coding with audio-visual and interaction-based content. But if I am honest, in the last time I did not use Flash in my projects at all. I had to deal with some other powerful creative coding tools. Some of these tools provide me, as an artist, much more freedom than the Flash plattform can ever provide. For example, creating a visual output for multi-displays applications, programming on hardware (arduino), some real-time video tracking (face detection) experiments, using special Open-GL Renderer for 3D graphics and so on. But I also ran into problems, which I would never have with using Flash. Especially, when I worked together with unexperienced programmer. For this reason, I will describe some of these creative coding tools with their inherent advantages and disadvantages. After this article you should have a good overview about the available tools in creative coding.

    Creative Coding Tools Overview

    Creative Coding Tools Overview

    Adobe Flash (text-based coding)

    Adobe delivers a very good IDE for creative coding. Many people complain about the IDE, but it is the best tool to start coding for media designer, artist etc. You have the whole familiar layer infrastructure from Photoshop, and you can easily import your Photoshop, Illustrator graphics. After importing the graphics and the artist can start coding directly on the graphics. To see the graphics visually and arrange them on the stage, and then coding seamlessly with them (connected via symbolname = variable name) minimizes the obstactles for newbies so much. The same is valid for working with interactive video and audio. I know the Flash IDE is not cheap, but it is definitely the money worth for getting a perfect start. After reaching the intermediate level, you can switch to Flash Builder Coding Editor. This editor is quite advanced and it is free for students and teacher.

    In a summary Flash is perfect for starting creative coding. For heavy graphic and media (video + audio files) projects it is perfect and delivers a unique workflow. Flash is also a very good solution for web-based project and the community is very big and active. So you can be sure to find a whole set of additional libraries and help. Because of the simplicity the Flash Plattform has got two disadvantages. The lack of perfomance compared to other technologies (C++, Java, Python) can be a problem for complex visual renderings and algorithms. The second disadvantage is the less freedom for physical computing based projects. An Alternative for Flash is Microsoft Silverlight

    Processing (text-based coding)

    Processing is a specific Java based framework for creative coding. Ben Fry and Casey Reas simplified the programming language Java, so it is easier for media artist diving into creative coding. In my opinion, it is not a good solution for starting creative coding with this tool, even it is for free! In my class and at my old university I often saw the same misunderstanding in the beginners eyes when they started with processing... This whole text-based coding without any reference to the graphics is still too abstract for beginners. That lead for unhappy artist. Then maybe they  started hating programming... That is not cool... Maybe the new IDE project Kaleido can solve this.

    The syntax of Processing is quite similar to ActionScript. So it is not so difficult for Flash Coder to switch to Processing and vice versa. Processing is able to use Open-GL. In this case it makes much more sense to use this tool for 3D Project than Flash. Even you can connect Java Libraries with your Processing projects. That enables completely new application possibilities. Speech recognition, video tracking, working with Bluetooth Networks are only a few examples. Also collaborative coding via SVN is quite easy in Processing and the active community is the best evidence for this.

    Max/MSP/Jitter (node-based coding)

    This tool is a node-based  programming tool for media artist. Every node has an input and a output. The artist can connect this nodes with cables, like it was used to do in the earlier times with the audio synthesizer. The node-based approach may be a good starting point for beginners. For experienced programmer (also for me) it can be very weird to programm in this environment. But if I am honest, Max/MSP/Jitter delivers a big repertoire of audio effect nodes, video effect nodes and User Interface elements. Also working with hardware is quite well supported in this environment. Connecting MIDI devices, special sound-cards and several displays (or projectors) to Max/MSP/Jitter is not a big problem. For this reason Max/MSP/Jitter is perfect for live audio-visual performances and media installations. A further advantage is the extensibility of Max/MSP/Jitter. Advanced programmers can use the included JAVA  API or JavaScript API for creating and extending new nodes (e.g. OpenCV in Max) and user interface elements. Only for web-based projects this tool is almost useless, and even working together with other artist seems not so easy. Alternatives for the commercial based product MAX/MSP/Jitter can be PureData (mainly for audio processing), VVVV (video and visuals) and EyesWeb Framework (video and stage-based installations).

    openFrameworks (text-based coding)

    With openFrameworks we enter the big world of C and C++. C and C++ is quite old and for this reason the language has got some ugly inherent characteristics. For advanced programmer the concept of pointers is quite easy to understand. In contrast intermediate programmers will get surely fucked up with the header file concept. Beginners are going to get lost in this big world... That sounds terrible, but it  is not so worse. C and C++ provides the biggest freedom an artist can ever get. For getting this freedom the artist has to put some effort into it.

    Afterwards the artist can code directly on hardware (e.g. Arduino). Also high-end performance optimizing of your application is possible here. Especially for heavy 3D -based projects you are supposed to use this platform. The team around openFrameworks created successfully an easy to use C++ Library for audio-visual coding. Their tutorial page gives an easy start and their classes makes it quite easy working with audio,video and drawing operations in C++. The openFramework approach is very similar to the Processing project in Java World. It exist an active community, who extend the openFramework toolkit successively. A disadvantage of openFrameworks could be the slow development process. If no suitable add-on is available for your project (for instance: network-based multi-user interaction) it can get very fast complex and time-consuming to solve this technical issue. An alternative for openFramework could be Cinder.

    The End

    The table above reveals that there is no real winner available. All the tools do a great job in their special domain. So Flash and Processing are very good tools for web-based projects, openFrameworks and Max/MSP/Jitter are better for media installations and complex animations. Beginners should check which tool is really easy to learn. An easy start and enjoying coding is very important in the beginning! Advanced Programmer and artist should distinguish between perfomance-based/hardware-based or graphic-based/media-file-based/web-based projects. For perfomance-based/hardware-based projects openFrameworks, Max/MSP/Jitter and maybe Processing is the best solution. For web-based and media-file/graphic-based projects Flash delivers a very good solution. In some cases (e.g. big Information Design projects) Processing is more suitable... So Happy Coding and visit CreativeApplications.Net to see what is possible!



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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/06/02/creative-coding-tools-which-is-the-best/feed/ 6     The Future of Rollerskating http://blog.derhess.de/2010/05/17/the-future-of-rollerskating/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/05/17/the-future-of-rollerskating/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 09:57:55 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1295 I am skating since 1996 and I still enjoy it very much. I never was this big talented skater, who did every handrail in the town or who did high technical tricks. I am able to skate transition, gaps and rails on the same level. So I was and I am still a good allround skater. But there was one thing, which distungished me from my other friends... I had a different perspective on spots. When we went out for exploring new spots, I was not interested on perfect handrails, I was more interested in using the urban (public space) architecture in a new way. I did not do the best trick on the new spots I found, but everytime I shared my trick ideas withmy friends on which they never thought before. After that sharing process they evolved my ideas and in the most cases they did better tricks than me. Sharing inspiration and toughts are the reason why I wrote this article.

    The last years I could see that the level of skating increased rapidly. I am happy to see this evolution, but there is one thing I am little bit worried about. There is a big movement of doing big stunts and high technical tricks (especially switch-ups). The most  clips are showing people, who do 720s or 900s or 360inspin Grinds and switch-ups. I really miss the creativity of using the transitions, the park obstacles or the architecture in general in a new way. In the end of the 1990s and in the beginning of 2000 it was a big movement to skate spots, which looks not really as a skate spot. Or at least doing tricks, which nobody expected... What makes me a little bit sad about seeing skating nowadays,  that the people (the skaters) are physical capable of doing this creative things, but their lost the enjoyment of being creative during skating. The most time they use the obstacles how they should use... I don't want to complain here, I just want to remind on the existing and freedom of creativity in our skating sport.

    The movment parkour can give some nice inspirations for handplant tricks and wall ride tricks. Especially the french and these russian guys are an incredible source of inspiration:

    Russian people:



    The next interesting movement is Tricking. It is a mix of gym,parkour and Mixed Martial Arts and could be interesting for fun box tricks?!

    In the end I am also very happy and proud that the whole skate community has got some extraordinary skater, like Chris Farmer and Mathieu Ledoux. These two skaters and some more are doing a great job to transfer rollerskating to the next level! Thx for the work!

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    • ]]>     I am glad to hear that my and Hennings artwork 100101 aka. "Binary Visualizer" is exhibited on the Incuratable Art exhibition at La Bellevilloise in Paris.  If you are in Paris from 7 to 16 April 2010, visit the exhibition and have fun with the Art Collider Project ;-)

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/04/08/my-artwork-at-the-incuratable-art-exhibition-in-paris/feed/ 0     Collaboration Tools for your projects http://blog.derhess.de/2010/03/09/collaboration-tools-for-your-projects/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/03/09/collaboration-tools-for-your-projects/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:40 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1259 In the last months I worked with people from abroad or with big physical distances. The first time I thought, yeah that is not a problem. Everybody has got an internet connection and that is all what we need. In my old company the Liip AG - who I worked for - their whole project management and file management systems were almost accessible over an internet connection. For this reason I could work from everywhere I want. I thought, that would not change in my future time, because the internet has solutions for everything. Yeah, I have to say that is true. But it was not easy to find the right tools and services for exchanging ideas, files, time schedules and other stuff for free. My projects are not so big that it makes sense to implement this infrastructures by my own. I found some free or at least some cheap services which you can use for working together with friends or other small projects.

    Idea Development and Sharing

    Creating and developing ideas with people, who are not physical available, is not very easy. Maintaining and extending are also two not very minor problems. In the last time I found a very good workflow for me and my friends. We do a telephone conference via skype and in the same time we use the service Mindmeister (Online Mindmapping Tool) and the tool Balsamiq MockUp. At the moment our solution works good and it is totally free with some limitations. A more professional solution for idea development and exchange may be the Service ProtoShare. Unfortunately, there is no real free pricing model available, therefore I never tested this service.

    Planning and Schedules Services

    Sometimes you and your project members have to make choices or just finding the best time for an appointment. The services Doodle and WhenIsGood solve this problem very easily. I like the service doodle very much, because you can use it without any registration and you can make different kind of choices (timebased or any other).

    Project Management Services

    To arrange meetings is not everything. In most and even in small projects you have a rough imagination of a time schedule. This time schedule should be accessible for every project member in technical and visual form. Additional to this time schedule every project has got some documentation papers and project member information. All this information should be managed by a project management tool. A couple of project managment services are available on the internet. I am using huddle at the moment and I am quite satisfied with it. It has one free pricing model and the features are good enough for small projects. The project management services Basecamp and activeCollab are looking more professional and delivers some useful extensions (e.g. a Mobile Client Software). Unfortunately, there is no free pricing model available, only a fix testing period.

    Coding and design file Hosting

    In my case, we did many visual coding projects. For this reason we are using Version Management for Coding and even a Version Managment for Adobe Photoshop files. Richard Davey wrote a small blog post about it. I think the very well known free services are Google Code, GitHub and SourceForge.net. Using the SVN service Beanstalk in relation with the PixelNovel (Adobe Photoshop Version Management service) is a very powerful and simple tool, I guess...

    (Short) temporal data storage

    Sometimes you have to exchange some data files. That could be a file transfer from your university computer to your home computer or sending huge files to other friends (or project members). For private purposes, the service Dropbox seems to be nice. For data, which should be only available for a short time and the data is not top secret for other people, I recommend to use the common upload file services (thx Hugo and Anca for the links):

    The End

    I hope you liked my short list of collaboration tools and services. If anything missing for you, check these two articles Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups and 10 Free SVN & Project Hosting Services, and a very good mindmap, or check my links for collaboration and project management. And of course, feel free to add a comment. :-)


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    • ]]>

    Twitter von der hess
    A small summary of my Twitter messages from Januar - February 2010:

    Allgemein (General)

    Generative Art:

    Info Design and Visualization

    UX and Interaction Design:

    Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

    Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

    Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

    Game Developing:

    Flash and Flex

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/03/04/my-most-important-twitter-messages-5/feed/ 0     Mein Fazit zum Medienfestival Transmediale in Berlin http://blog.derhess.de/2010/02/20/mein-fazit-zum-medienfestival-transmediale-in-berlin/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/02/20/mein-fazit-zum-medienfestival-transmediale-in-berlin/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:02:33 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1224
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    • ]]>     Transmedial Medienfestival Berlin 2010

    Vom 2. bis zum 7. Februar fand das Medienfestival Transmediale in Berlin statt.  Das Festival stand ganz unter dem Motto "Futurity Now", sprich was ist und wie gestalten wir unsere Zukunft. Gemäß aller Vorträge und Diskussionsrunden soll dabei das Internet und die kreative Klasse die wichtigsten Rollen für unsere Zukunft übernehmen. Vom meinem subjektiven Gefühl her stammten die meisten Besucher auch aus dieser sogenannten kreativen Klasse. An sich eine gute Sache, nur wandelte sich genau dieses Publikum in einigen Diskussionsrunden zu einer wahren Selbstbeweihräucherung, wie toll und kreativ und innovativ man doch sei. Besonders negativ ist mir die Diskussion am Ende  zum Thema  Creativity as an Economic Resource aufgefallen. Nun gut davon wollte ich mich mir freilich nicht die Stimmung vermiesen lassen und besuchte die Transmediale Ausstellung. Viele Kunstwerke gab es zwar nicht zu sehen, aber das war für mich schon O.K., denn das A Parallel Image, die Paparazzi Bots und der Artvertiser haben mich ziemlich überzeugt und waren sicherlich auch einer der Highlights der Austellung.

    Die restlichen Tage habe ich eigentlich dann nur noch verbracht irgendwelche Vorträge anzuhören. Leider waren diese vom Niveau her sehr unterschiedlich. Teilweise sehr gut und unterhaltsam (siehe Bruce Sterling und Richard Barbrook), aber es gab auch Vorträge, wo einfach nur ein Text vorgelesen wurde. Im nach hinein habe ich erfahren, dass sowas normal sei bei philosophischen Vorträgen. Nun gut, nur zu dumm wenn die Stimme sehr monoton wird und immer schneller... Naja bei diesen Vorträgen war meine Aufmerksamkeit nach mind. 10min total hinüber. So ging es mir ziemlich häufig bei den Vorträgen. Ich hatte es bisher noch nie, das sich die Themen so gut anhören, aber die Vorträge so träge und langweilig sind. Also an dieser Stelle weiß ich wirklich nicht was sich die Veranstalter gedacht haben. Man sollte sich schon überlegen wen mann vorne ans Mikro stellt... Hin und wieder gab es auch ein paar Filmscreenings, wo es das ein oder andere gute Videokunstwerk zusehen gab. Leider wurden auch manche Filme einfach ohne weitere Vorstellung und Nachbesprechung gezeigt, wie z.B. das Video über einen Kriegseinsatz mit sehr schlechten Ton und spanischen Untertiteln und am Ende hieß es: "Ja das Video haben wie gefunden und fanden es interessant, deswegen haben wir es heute hier gezeigt"  Das wirkte dann manchmal wie ne lieblose Zusammenstellung und ehrlich keine Ahnung was sich dabei der Kurator gedacht hat...

    Fazit: Eins, zwei Tage nach der Transmediale hat sich dann meine Meinung zum Festival ein wenig gesetzt. Leider muss ich sagen, dass mir von den Vorträgen nicht mehr viel im Gedächtnis war, eigentlich habe ich fast keinen einzigen Punkt für mich mitnehmen können. Aus dieser Sicht war die Transmediale eine fast große Enttäuschung für mich, da doch die Infrastruktur und der Veranstaltungsort schon ziemlich super war. Auch das Thema und die Überschriften der Programmpläne war viel versprechend. Aus meiner persönlichen Sicht wurde das Meiste nur sehr oberflächlich angerissen... Vielleicht lag es auch an den überwiegend fashion-victim orientierten Besuchern, die einfach n bissl was von dem Künstler Flair abhaben möchten. Ganz nach dem Prinzip: Ich kauf mir n Mac also hab ich Geschmack. Ich geh auf ein Medienfestival, also bin ich kreativ and cool!

    So wie es aussieht bin ich auch nicht ganz alleine mit meinem enttäuschten Bild über das Festival, siehe dradio.de Fazit.

    Sehr schade alles, aber zum Glück gabs auch noch Parallelveranstaltung zur Transmediale, wie z.B. vom betahaus und deren Workshop und Vortragsreihe zum Thema How are Social Media changing Design? Danke an dieser Stelle noch an Daniela für die Führung durchs betahaus und fürs Bier ;-)

    Am Ende gibt kann ich nur den Rat geben: Wer knapp bei Kasse ist und einen Austausch in Sachen Medienkunst möchte, dem sei das Ars Electronica Festival in Linz empfohlen (auch wenn das Hinkommen nicht so leicht ist).

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/02/20/mein-fazit-zum-medienfestival-transmediale-in-berlin/feed/ 0     SENSEWARE – How to Create the Experience’s Architecture http://blog.derhess.de/2010/02/09/senseware-how-to-create-the-experiences-architecture/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/02/09/senseware-how-to-create-the-experiences-architecture/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:19:14 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1202 Interface Culture

    During my master studies at the Interface Culture department of the University in Linz I visited the great lecture SENSEWARE - How to Create the Experience's Architecture by Hide Ogawa. In this lecture we learnt and discussed how we can integrate and reproduce emotions + experiences in our technical-based environment. Furthermore, we discussed the roles of the different interactive design  disciplines - e.g. Product Designer, Industrial Designer, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Experience Designer etc. - and how they work together in the domain of SenseWare products.

    For a better understanding how SenseWare is implemented in each culture, we had got the task to give a 5min overview of SenseWare in our country. In my presentation I mentioned mainly the religion background of SenseWare in Germany. Nowadays I think delivering experiences in Germany is mostly driven by media institutions. See my slides here:

    Senseware in the Germany Culture

    The second assignment of this lecture includes a presentation of current SenseWare examples. For me it was obvious to mention the great SenseWare work of Stefan Ulrich (Funktionide and Liquid Wall) and the well-known digital handshake experience Poken. The other students presented also very astonishing projects: Corpora in Si(gh)te, Sakura, Wishlist, Lady K Bag, Magic Wand, Juice Skin, Ambient Umbrella, Big Shadow and so on...

    Sense Ware Examples from Germany and Switzerland

    The final assignment of this lecture was creating a concept of an own development SenseWare. During this design process we should consider the japanese concept of Mitate! Mitate is in my opinion a very interesting concept, which could have a big influence in the design process of technical devices in our future.

    Anyway, my SenseWare concept tried to map the virtual abstract data and behaviour of social network profiles in real living objects. That sounds first very abstract and theoretical but I think my presentation slides shows my points very clear. So please have a critical look and I am looking forward about some feedback :-)

    Virtual Charisma Garden - A SenseWare Project

    At the end of the Hide Ogawa's lecture I was very happy about the new inspiration and approaches from a Japanese perspective. Even the fact that our group was very international oriented (ca. 15 people from ca. 12 different countries - Bulgaria, Australia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Iran, Turkey, Slovenia etc.) deliverd a huge inspiration for my mind. If you would like to add some more information of the topic of experience design and SenseWare, please feel free to leave a comment. Thx!


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