Prototype Proposals
I am in the early stages of designing an installation that can track people's body tempo and relate to their personality.
A core consideration for this project is :
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different kinds of tempo from human body.
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the way that I can use to track people's tempo in their normal state.
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a understandable way for the public to make the connection from their tempo to their identity.
Specifically, I want to find out how can people's tempo defined themselves.
Statements:
At present I find out two kinds of tempo I might want to track from human body: walking rhythm and pulse.
So my initial prototypes are basically involved in these two kinds of tempo.
Prototypes:
The first one has two part. The first part is I prepare to put a path on the ground where sensors are hidden. And people are asked to put sensors on their soles. There is a gramophone on the desk that plays a song in a normal speed. When someone is walking on this path the gramophone will change the speed of this person's tempo.
After testing, I got two things to consider:
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Whether the song that played by gramophone will impact people's tempo?
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Since people already know they should put sensors on their soles, dose it make people over care about their walking?
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The third one is kind of like a music box which has pulse sensor on the surface, and if people touch the sensor it will track their pulse and find a music that match your pulse.
After testing, I got two things to consider:
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Whether people would regard their pulse as an identity?
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Whether it is too boring?
The forth one is also has a path that to track people's rhythm of walking, but at the end of the path there is a screen that can will find some photos that match someone's walking rhythm. And show it in a motion way.
After testing, I have somethings to consider:
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Connecting photos to someone's tempo is kind of ambiguous to identify people?
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Whether it is too boring?
Considering things above I just figure out another way that I just put a sound instead of gramophone, and when sensors track someone's walking tempo it will find a song to match his tempo.
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I am now just figure out two kinds of tempo from human body, but I am also want to use other tempo like typing tempo but I have no idea how to track it and how to use it. And how can I make people walking in their normal way, which means I want people do not mind their walking. I think this request will leave me a big challenge to track their normal walking tempo. I use different music to show personality. However can people know the certain music can be their identity? What if two different people have the same tempo?
Conclusion:
As we can see, each photo has its own rhythm especially the photo of architecture. Such rhythm can be relevance to people's walking rhythm.