Final Project Proposal: Yang&Meng

Final Project Proposal: Yang&Meng

Heart Pulse

A sculpture that senses, express and transmits heart pulse

Project intent:

Our idea is to express people's emotion by using heart pulse. 

Hearts are powerful and personal. They are also symbols of our emotion in many different culture. Moreover, unlike other signs such as fingerprint or eye colors, heart is dynamic and changeable, which gives us so much imagination to create interactions with heart.  

"May be I cannot see you, but I can feel you heart."

A sculpture or a wall that can sense, express and transmit heart pulse to make people feel being connected with others.

     Inspiration:

     Pulse Drip:

www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_drip.php

Pulse Spiral:

www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_spiral.php

Design: 

1. interactive wall in urban area 

People may stand at different sides of the wall, but their heart pulses are communicating.

2. Interactive sculpture 

3. hearts beat game

We design to use sensor to visualize the power of human. People may use their heart power to PK. The interaction surface will show their power by the lightness of LED.

So, it works as a game. Two people may stand at the different side of the instrument. When they put their hands on the instrument. Their hearts' beating could make different patterns and PK with each other.

Value:

• Sharing and Communication: I cannot see the person behind the wall but I know there is a person sharing his heart pulse
• Feeling warm: Create a feeling of being connected by other people (for people living in urban area)
• Interaction : Study how visualized heart pulse can affect people's emotion or be used in communication

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·    Technology solution:

• LED
• Projector
• Foamed Plastics
• Pulse sensor
• IR sensor

Technology feasibility:

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_drip.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iWq-hRIkSc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAp1snPchT4