Week 8

Exercise:

This weeks exercise was to come up with come up with 5 physical interactions for controlling 3 applications. The interactions were supposed to map onto and/or into physical objects and actions.

Application 1, Email:

1. Send email function served by placing a slip of paper into an envelope
2. Forward email served by placing an envelope into a 'outgoing' box, with the intended recipient written onto it.
3. Open attachments by removing a slip of paper from an envelope.
4. Finger print scanner to log in to email
5. Delete email by placing envelope into trash bin.

Application 2, Twitter:

1. Start a new tweet by whistling a tweet sound
2. Like a tweet by giving a thumbs up to a webcam
3. write tweet by speaking out loud
4. send tweet by clapping hands
5. search hashtags by voice recognition

Application 3, Super Mario Bros:

1. Lean left/right to move left or right (hard lean to run)
2. Jump to make mario jump
3. crouch to make mario crouch/enter pipe
4. make throwing gesture to throw fire after getting fire flower powerup
5. voice recognition on "Its-a me, Mario" to start game