Month: April 2020

Mobile Lab: W12

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App Title: Memory Quilt / Lets go for a walk

Short description: Memory Quilt is an AR quilt project for my nephews. Created by mending a family quilt, it celebrates their family’s love for nature, time spent together, and how they might share those stories with one another. Embroidered leaves of neighborhood trees back in Tennessee found on the quilt become shifting repositories of memories, unlocked through a companion AR mobile app.

Update: For this week I focused on building a mockup of the “Add to Collection Mode” and tested through sketch remotely with my brother back in TN. Continuing to work on  the AR explore mode – thinking both about the interaction and balance of Screen/World space.

 

Usertesting

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User tester 1  

  • would like ability to write a small something about the memory, what makes the moment unique
  • date & location, an ability to geotag

 

User tester 2 

  • to have the main buttons closer to where the thumb naturally lies, at the bottom of screen
  • to have it stay as an option on each leaf page in stead of a single screen asking whether to take new picture or from camera roll

 

 

 

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User tester 3

  • ability to edit memory

 

 

 

Thesis References

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Anderson , C., Miller, B., Eitel, K., Veletsianos, G., Eitel, J., & Hougham, R. (2015). Exploring Techniques for Integrating Mobile Technology into Field-Based Environmental Education. Electronic Journal of Science Education , 19(6). Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1188304.pdf

Augmented Nature, 2019. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.annamadeleine.com/augmented-nature.

Brain, T. (2018). The Environment Is Not a System. A Peer-Reviewed Newspaper Journal About Research Values, 7(1), 152–165. Retrieved from https://aprja.net//article/view/116062

Barss, K. (2018). Outdoor Exploration Through Technology. Parks & Recreation , 53(9), 18–20. Retrieved from http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/docview/2117119076?accountid=12768

Delprino, A. F., Piva, C., Tommasi, G., Gelsomini, M., Izzo, N., & Matera, M. (2018). ABBOT: a smart toy motivating children to become outdoor explorers. ACM Digital Library – AVI ’18 Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces . Retrieved from https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3206512&preflayout=flat#

Empty Day. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://emptyday.today/home.html.

Fessenden, M. (2015, October 8). Thanks to Augmented Reality, These Coloring Books Come to Life. Retrieved from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/magic-disney-makes-coloring-book-characters-literally-pop-page-180956869/.

Gabrys, J. (2016). Re-Thingifying the Internet of Things.

Haptic Lab. (n.d.). Haptic Lab – Park Quilts. Retrieved from https://www.hapticlab.com/collections/parks.

Hougham, R. J., Nutter, M., & Graham, C. (2018). Bridging Natural and Digital Domains: Attitudes, Confidence, and Interest in Using Technology to Learn Outdoors. Journal of Experiential Education, 41(2), 154–169. doi: 10.1177/1053825917751203

House, B. (n.d.). Quotidian Record. Retrieved from https://brianhouse.net/works/quotidian_record/ .

Jessup, L. (2019). gARden cards – 2019 Reality Virtually Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab . Retrieved from https://www.lydiajessup.me/garden-cards/ .

Kelley, B. (2014, April 2). Anti-loneliness augmented quilt comforts children in hospital (Wired UK). Retrieved from https://mental-flowers.com/2014/04/02/anti-loneliness-augmented-quilt-comforts-children-in-hospital-wired-uk/ .

Kimmerer, R. W. (2014). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. milkweed editions. doi: https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass .

Mattern, S. (2018). Maintenance and Care. Places Journal, (2018). doi: 10.22269/181120 Retrieved from https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/ .

Morton, T. (2012). The ecological thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Morton, T. (2014). Hyperobjects: philosophy and ecology after the end of the world. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Nature-Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/2318794480/ .

Odell, J. (2019). How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy. Brooklyn, London: Melville House.

Painted Earth: The Planet as our canvas. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://studiomoniker.com/projects/painted-earth .

Rothman, J., & Niekrasz, J. (2015). Nature anatomy: the curious parts & pieces of the natural world. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing.

Schwartz, C. (2019, April 18). Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/books/attention-books-jenny-odell.html .

Simon, N. (2010). The participatory museum. California: Museum 2.0.

Simple Geometric Quilting: Modern, Minimalist Designs for Throws, Pillows, Wall Decor and More. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781624148033 .

Sculpture Cam. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sculpture.cam/ .

Seek by iNaturalist · iNaturalist. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app .

Solnit , R. (2001). Wanderlust. Penguin Books. doi: http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/wanderlust/ 

Weintraub, L. (2012). To life!: eco art in pursuit of a sustainable planet. Berkeley: University of California Press

Wonderscope – Wonderscope: an Augmented Reality Ios App For Kids. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://wonderscope.com/ .

 

Explore Quilt AR mode: Scene flow brainstorm

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  • The main question is how should an image appear that’s been tagged to the species?
  • hoping to start with the inspiration of this image, the act of picking up leaves from the ground to look at them closer
  • Might also be good to look at Adobe Aero

 

 

Some Influences 

www.danielstarrason.com

I’ve also been revisiting some projects that I feel influenced this one as well on a subconscious level.  An early Kimchi & Chips exploration as well as some really beautiful embroidered icelandic landscapes from the turn of the 20th century at the museum Safnasafnid in Aykeuri.

 

 

Explore Quilt Mode: building out custom behaviors 

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Image Anchor:  Embroidered Maple leaf  

  • falling leaves =  primitive shapes + physics enabled 
  • on tap behavior to pull up UI / tagged leaf  memory 

 

 

 

R&D – Quilt AR + Timeboxing

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Today Im testing out a method Sarah suggested to us in thesis of Timeboxing. With timeboxing you choose a certain time frame for the completion of a specific task, pencils down on that task no matter what when the time ends, no judgement on quality this round.

Since my mobile lab final is my thesis app/ar side, hoping to apply this technique to get me back to where i hope to be timeline wise. Need to do last weeks W9 & W10’s assignment. After office hours it sounds like focusing this week on the R&D will be most helpful.

Brainstorm

11:15pm – 12:15pm

Beginning this next hour+ with a brainstorming activity on the similarities, differences and important aspects for two main parts of project: quilts & trees:

Brainstorm on Trees 20 min

Brainstorm on Quilts 20 min

Brainstorm on how possible interactions / experience paths 20 min

 

 

Prototype with reality composer 

12:45pm – 1:45pm

Choose an interaction

What are technical limitations to consider? Or questions that come to mind?

 

 

Past brainstorms to look at as well:

  • From inspiration to ideas
  • thesis freewrite
  • ar lotus flower
  • user tests

 

Exploring quilt AR experience w Reality Composer

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After office hours with Mobile lab and Thesis have decided to explore my project’s AR side with Reality Composer / Reality Kit + SwiftUI.

Since travel is limited could test with family in TN also by emailing them the image targets and testing the app via Testflight. Could test UI aspects with Sketch +InVision, and have a link that leads to a clickable playtest version ❤

This week now that some of the quilt patchwork and embroidered targets are done, revisiting the interaction and experience. It can be easy to fall down the rabbit hole of learning a new tool or software. A common question in past office hours whether with Nien, Sarah, Marina, Rui or Ilana has been less about how to make it work technically but to focus more on conceptual side and storytelling.

For W10 I plan to focus on 1 tree interaction then moving to the others. Focusing first on the maple tree on Fairfax.

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Thesis Update + Mobile lab / 4.15.20

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Navigating Reality Composer

 

After office hours with Mobile lab and Thesis have decided to explore my project’s AR side with Reality Composer / Reality Kit + SwiftUI.

Since travel is limited could test with family in TN also by emailing them the image targets and testing the app via Testflight. Could test UI aspects with Sketch +InVision, and have a link that leads to a clickable playtest version ❤

This week now that some of the quilt patchwork and embroidered targets are done, revisiting the interaction and experience. It can be easy to fall down the rabbit hole of learning a new tool or software. A common question in past office hours whether with Nien, Sarah, Marina, Rui or Ilana has been less about how to make it work technically but to focus more on conceptual side and storytelling.

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Office Hours (Mobile Lab 4.14.20)

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  • Instead of Vuforia – How to combine an Ios image to texture plugin with Reality Composer?
  • How to test a veryyy simplified mvp with family w testflight?
    • printing out ar targets on their end
  • had been looking at this sample code as a beginning point
    • but realized it was already using UIimagepicker as main function, might be easier to build out on swift side vs vuforia?

 

 

ExploreQuiltMode

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Inspiration

augmented-reality-reading-app

 

Inspired by Wonderscope + Shanon Mattern’s Essay on Maintenance & Care

Thesis / building the top quilt

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To help me explore quilting have read through parts of Simple Geometric Quilting by Laura Preston of Vacilando Quilting Co.

Today was looking through the section ” Building a Quilt”. Looking for piecing tips to build out the pinwheel shape based on my great grandmother’s pinwheel. Will be using old sheets and pillowcases here in the apartment to create a cream & white pinwheel. In the user testing one of the favorite aspects was the filling in of color, to unlock color and images through the mobile device. That it helped tie the two together, creating a feeling of dependency between the two aspects vs two disparate things.

Piecing

  • considering the right & wrong side of the quilt
    • right side = top side of quilt
    • wrong side = backside of fabric
    • want stitches to be on back side
  • seam allowance
    • seam allowance for piecing  = 1/4″  (6mm)

 

Setting up sewing machine

last holiday i got a Janome Arctic Crystal beginner sewing machine,   with trying to stay home when we can to flatten the curve have set it up in our apartment. Newer to machine sewing I facetimed with my mom for a quick setup lesson. The instructions with the machine had forgotten to mention an essential step for winding a bobbin, and within minutes Bonnie was able to help set me up, with her camera view on her machine. It reminded me a little of an article from NYT about facetiming with family and friends in ways that are new for some of us.

 

 

Pinwheel Block History 

 

Misc References