Interactive Kiosks

The photographs above are a few interactive kiosks I found around Nottingham. The Kiosks are very user friendly and serve their purpose very well which is to entertain the public. However, for my interactive kiosk I wouldn't want to make something like this because it has been done too many times before, I want to create something new and innovative that uses interactions in a different way.

Three Walls

Title Screen for Ping Pong Game

HTML taken too far

View From The Top Photography Exhibition

A Mind Frames project "People you know, Places you go"

The project in the View From the Top Gallery was funded by the Making Waves organisation that consists of people with a range of experiences of mental distress. Through the members and their experiences, the organisation aims to transform mental health services and develop new and innovative ways of supporting people through mental distress. Not only does the organisation provide service evaluation of mental health services but they also provide research, education and training.

The Mind Frames project is part of a research project exploring what interaction individuals have who live in residential settings have with their local communities. The participants were encouraged to look at different ways of portraying places and people, using photographs to tell a story. The participants used digial, film or even disposable cameras to portray their version of the story.



http://www.viewfromthetop.co.uk/
http://viewforthcomingevents.blogspot.com/
http://www.photovoice.org/
http://www.makingwaves.org/index.html

Ping Pong Game

So...the next task is to design and make a ping pong game using actionscript 3.0 in flash. I've made the bats (or paddles) move vertically up the screen using the following code.

function myEventResponse(myEventObject):void {
trace("keyboard event " + myEventObject.keyCode);
if (myEventObject.keyCode==38) {
bat_1.y = bat_1.y - 20;
}
if (myEventObject.keyCode==40) {
bat_1.y = bat_1.y + 20;
}
}
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, myEventResponse);

stop();




The next stages are to:

Create a "ball" that moves across the screen

Make the ball "bounce" of the three walls (top, bottom and side furthest from bat)

Make the "ball" bounce off the "bat"

Make the game end if the "ball" goes past the "bat"

Set up some means of determining a “score” e.g. time or number of bounces?


Some websites I will be looking at to help me will be:

http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/

http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/
Mouse-Events-Actionscript-3-in-Flash-cs3-Tutorial-89504.html

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

http://www.flashandmath.com/

Very good and extensive list of links:
http://www.franto.com/blog2/collected-links-to-actionscript-30-examples

Review of Interactive Elements on the Web

http://www.comcastic.com/
These puppets are amazing! On the site the user has to control the movements of the puppet with the keyboard. All I can think about is how good it will look with music to it. There is also the option to record your own voice over the top of the puppet. The text on the website explains that the user has to 'let the puppets entertain you'.

To make this pysically we would put an animated puppet on a large screen. We would then attactch sensors to each part of the body, so the puppet on the screen would move with the user.

Puppet from the website:


Our physical version of a person with sensors to move the puppet on screen:


www.miniusa.com/roofsudio/index.jsp
Two of the best games I have ever played on the internet...well in the past week. The jumping game is danerously addictive once you get the jumps right.

The racing game was quite hard to keep on track, although I did like the way it was made to look like google earth. The traffic lights are just as annoying as lights in real life.

To make this in a physical form it would be quite simple just to have a remote control car racing around a track. Although there is probably some alternative answer that will come to me.

http://www.perplexcity.com
Nice website, although after being on it I still have no idea what is going on.

www.nike.com/jumpman23
This made me feel sick.

www.geoterra.ecomagination.com/indexFlash.html
hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....quite ladida and brightly coloured.

www.interactivearchitechture.org
pysical and virtual road meet

File Formats

Vector .wme
Video for web .avi .wmf
Video for DVD iso
Audio for web .mp3
Audio .wma .wv .mp3
Text for Web .doc .pdf .txt .html
Text in Document .doc .pdf .txt
Flash File .swf .html
Photoshop Image .psd .jpeg .gif .tif
3D Image .c4d
Real Audio .ram .mp3
Webpage .html .xhtml .xml .mhtml

The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

This book is something I will always want to stay up and read. I'm only half way through at the moment. But I don't really want to finish it in any rush as it feeds my thoughts when in need of inspiration. The book is full of interesing facts, and quotations from famous philosophers and some of just ordinary people and the occasional picture or design. Fletcher begins with the beginning of time, the big bang and the begining of creation. You never know what you are going to read next. I read last night that apparently the polish elected the virgin mary as their prime minister before the First World War. Even if i don't believe much of the information to be valid I enjoy reading the book as it just makes you think about the world and our surroundings.