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Thursday, February 25, 2010

The 5 Senses in Interaction Design


Which of the 5 senses are exploited for building interfaces (touch, sight, hearing, smelling, tasting?) People use the 5 senses to understand the society, communicate with people and interactive with the world. I want to talk about the above issue by three parts:

Museum
In this film, all of the exhibits can become active at night, and such creativity attracts a lot of audience's attention. If the museum want to attract visitor's attention, it may be good to create more interactive exhibits, there exist a talking robot in Japan, it can communicate with people with some certain words. And at the end of the film, the director just make all of the exhibits become relatively true and active, such as the roar of the dinosaur skeletons, the cowboy fighting and so on.

We also can imagine that, before entering the museum, visitors will get a device, which is a similar GPS system device, according to the location of visitors, the machine will play the appropriate animation, text explanations and image data, and some of the particular occasion will also emit sounds or smell during your visiting, these creativity would highlight the special significance of this exhibition. 
(Museum Guide to Video) (Such as images of war, there is the smell of ammunition, sound of the fire and for the dinosaur models; there may be an original eco-sound of the Age of Dinosaurs, etc.)

Cinemas
Today's cinema has been a big difference as before, especially in the 3D and 4D theaters.
More than that, now the cinema has a new idea, see as the link below.Human Joysticks

Smelling of creativity
My graduation project is about the reminder; I would like to use some real and interesting sounds or voice to remind users it is time to do something, and later thought that if it can, then use a special smell may also play a role?

This idea can also be used in the construction of the website to connect the site and smell of some certain object. Such as one website which sale flower, when users enter the website, when click on different species of flowers; it will automatically emit a different smelling. According to this vision, perfume sites, recipes sites can also be used in such technologies
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

New idea for my final project

After yesterday's presentation, I just think about that my reminder (final project) may add one more function: except the real voice of human beings, how about the special smell to remind the user to do their schedule?

It may be difficult to accomplish. @_@