SPACE: GPS, SOUND, LIGHT AND TIME

Posted November 23, 2007 at 2:42 pm

For space yesterday I had a meeting with Chris Speed to discuss where I could take my ideas of emotion mapping next. The idea is to come up with an idea before the end of the term to present. This presentation is to include the ideas surrounding what I intend to do, so contextualising it all, some drawings or schematics demonstrating how it will work as well (if we have time) a prototype.

I found this meeting really useful as it has given me a good area of research to inform the project. What I took away from it involves using parameters from GPS, such as sync time or another aspect that is easy to hack out, to produce some sort of emotion changing device using sound or even coloured light to do so. The idea at the moment is one where some one would walk around with a device strapped up to a GPS receiver or device and depending on where they go and how fast they move about this will change the sound frequency or colour, giving a spacial artefact or sound mash up. Ok, sounds mad, but its clear in my head at the moment.

I was also thinking about how you always find holes in GPS signal. What I mean by this is when you go out of sync with the satellites and your sat nav stops giving you directions for example. I think it would be interesting to maybe play around with this as well as I’m pretty sure you get the same effect if you walk into buildings or under structures. Worth playing with.

So for the time being I’ll be looking at a few peoples work: