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LilianAdmiraal

Colours and the emotions they provoke

When colour is used correctly, it can add a tremendous impact to your product or concept. When used incorrectly you can lose this impact and the user can interpret the meaning of the chosen colour wrongful.

Warm colours tend to ‘move toward you’ while cool colours tend to ‘move away from you’. So a designer can use warm colours for emphasis and cool colours to minimize emphasis. Brighter colours on the other hand can attract our eyes first, and if overused, can cause visual confusion. Overusing a bright colour as an accent reduces its effectiveness.

Regardless of what your left brain may tell you, colours symbolize and trigger emotions, memories and ideas or thoughts without you even realizing it. Color creates the user to responses, by stimulating emotions and communicating on levels other than reason and intellect. It can excite, impress, entertain and persuade, but colour can also create instant negative associations.

Emotional responses influence colour considerations and differences in colour value and intensity can evoke very different emotional reactions. Light red is associated with cheerfulness, but bright or dark red can induce irritability. Light yellow-green is associated with freshness and youth, but the darker shade olive is associated with drabness and decay. Light sky blue is associated with tranquility, but the deeper value indigo is associated with depression.

The emotion triggered by a colour depends on nationality, past experiences, and sometimes personal preferences. However, studies have shown that specific colours and combinations of colours can psychologically have an effect on the majority of people, insignificant of their culture or past.

The emotional meanings of these colours below here are basically the meanings of colours in the Western world. Of course the meaning of the colours can be different in every culture. The three primary colours are described broadly. The other meaning of colours you can find in the schedule below.

Red: Red is the first primary colour of the spectrum. It emotionally triggers the sense of power, impulsively, sexuality and increases one’s appetite, but it also can shout anger, forcefulness, impatience, intimidation, conquest, violence and revenge.

Yellow: Yellow is also one of the primary colours. Visually it is the most difficult for your eyes to focus on. It is actually brighter than white and stronger in its emotional impact. It also has a stimulating impact on your memory. It triggers the following emotions; intelligence, joy and organization. Its opposite effects when used in the wrong manner of with the wrong combination of other colours can create feelings of criticism, laziness, or cynicism.

Blue: Blue is the last primary colour of the three basic colours. It is the easiest colour for the eyes to focus on. It generates feelings of tranquility, love, acceptance, patience, understanding and cooperation. Its negative qualities used inappropriately are fear, coldness, passivity and depression. Blue is a favorite colour choice among all age groups.

Red
aggressive, strong, heavy, urgency, passion, heat, love, blood, excitement, strength, sex, speed, danger, action, anger, impulse and impatient
Yellow
caution, spring, warmth, sunshine, cheerful, happiness, cowardice, brightness and joy
Blue
comfort, loyalty, security, truth, dignity, power, coolness, melancholy, heaviness, trust, reliability, belonging, calming and peaceful
Orange
excitement, energy, playfulness, warmth, vibrant, positive, enthusiastic, steadfastness, courage, confidence, friendliness, cheerfulness, ignorance, inferiority, sluggishness and superiority
Green
nature, health, cheerfulness, environment, money, vegetation, cool, growth, abundance, jealousy, good luck, harmony, hope, freshness, soothing, sharing, responsiveness, envy, greed, constriction, guilt, jealousy and disorder
Purple
religion, wealth, royalty, sophistication, intelligence, royal, spirituality, dignity, nobility, passion and creativity
Pink
healthy, childlike, feminine, soft, sweet, nurture and security
Black
dramatic, classy, sophistication, elegant, seductive, mysterious, death, rebellion, strength, evil, serious, mournful and lifeless
Gray
business, cold and distinctive
White
simple, purity, lightness, emptiness, pure, virginal, clean, youthful, mild and innocent
Gold
prestige and expensive
Silver
prestige, cold and scientific
Brown
Nature, aged and eccentric

When you want to choose colors for your design, you have to remember a few rules for the mixing of colors. The human eye cannot focus on red and blue/green at the same time. Trying to read red type on a blue/green background or vice versa causes extreme eye fatigue. The user will not be receptive to your message if it hurts him to read it. Never, ever use blue/green type on a red background and even worse, is red type on a blue/green background.

Most colors go well together with members of the same "family". Warm colors of type, such as red, brown, orange and yellow, look better together in combination warm colored backgrounds. Cool colored type like blue, green, gray and white with cool colored backgrounds. When you use colour families generally, it makes it for the user a more appealing object/concept, especially for large amounts of information.

Contrast is fun and can be used effectively to accent information and draw attention to items. In general, keep the contrast low. Too much contrast makes your work difficult to digest, so avoid the extremes.

JanvanderAsdonk

Work done in week 11

working out a mapping session

I have been working on a mapping session. this session will work out all the concepts and compare the different attributes on different levels and see what we are aiming for.

Work done in week 10

Brainstorm techniques

technique: problem solving

- Define your problem (please note that the word "problem" is not necessarily negative - your problem could be "We need a new product for the Christmas season" or "How can we effectively use our departmental budget surplus for this year?"). Write out your problem concisely and make sure that everyone understands the problem and is in agreement with the way it is worded. There is no need to put a lot of restrictions on your problem at this time.

- Time limit: 25 minutes

- Everyone must shout out solutions to the problem while one person writes them out.

- Mapping session, selecting the requirements.

technique: provocation

Provocation is an important lateral thinking technique. Just like Random Input, it works by moving your thinking out of the established patterns that you use to solve problems.

As explained earlier, we think by recognizing patterns and reacting to them. These reactions come from our past experiences and logical extensions to those experiences. Often we do not think outside these patterns. While we may know the answer as part of a different type of problem, the structure of our brains makes it difficult for us to link this in.

Provocation is one of the tools we use to make links between these patterns.

We use it by making deliberately stupid statements (Provocations), in which something we take for granted about the situation is not true. Statements need to be stupid to shock our minds out of existing ways of thinking. Once we have made a provocative statement, we then suspend judgment and use that statement to generate ideas. Provocations give us original starting points for creative thinking.

As an example, we could make a statement that 'Houses should not have roofs'. Normally this would not be a good idea! However this leads one to think of houses with opening roofs, or houses with glass roofs. These would allow you to lie in bed and look up at the stars.

Once you have made the Provocation, you can use it in a number of different ways, by examining:

  • The consequences of the statement
  • What the benefits would be
  • What special circumstances would make it a sensible solution
  • The principles needed to support it and make it work
  • How it would work moment-to-moment
  • What would happen if a sequence of events was changed
  • Etc.

You can use this list as a checklist.

Research on Movie/Media

Since the development of the theater not much has changes. It still involves a big screen, multiple seats and a nice sound production. Current theaters are all using a huge screen with the latest technologies and omni-directional sound. Digital movies are making their entrance in the current theaters and overall quality is improving.

Other theater-like movie-based designs involve IMAX, simulation rides and 3D-movies. IMAX is just a very big theater with a bigger screen. The screen is built in such a way that it fills your entire viewing angle when looking at the middle of the screen. These movies are shot with special cameras and give you the feeling you are inside the movie. When these movies fly through caverns, swim through oceans, drop from a cliff; you feel part of that, and your brain partially thinks you are flying, swimming or falling. This emotional feeling is very strong, and it is only triggered by this big screen (and the added sound). Simulation rides offer the same emotional experience but enrich it by adding motion to the process. It is quite fun to see how simple motions can invoke the feeling of begin upside-down. 3D-movies exist for a long time now. But we are reaching dimensions. These days not only the movie characters come at you, also the conditions. New rides involve moving seats, crashing trees to the sides, falling water from above, small creatures running under your chair and many more interesting features.

The experience is quite nice, especially when you see the people’s reactions. The more they are linked to the real world, the better they experience the media. Although most 3D movies are not very realistic in effects and view, some new computer animations these days cannot be distinguished from the real, only by knowing that these things are not possible in our world. Most rides tickle and trick the brain, making you think that you are going very fast, but you are actually not. Those concepts are quite interesting, using these technologies to higher levels could completely change our virtual world. Think of holograms and holo-decks and The Matrix. Emotionally these experiences are very strong, and the possibilities are almost endless.

In the future the rides and movies will become more realistic and will interact more with the audience. The audience will become more aware of being inside the movie and will have their brains played with. We are all victims to these illusions, but at least it is fun.

Research on Games

These day’s games are reaching a level where they are going to tip. Normal games are as interactive as they always have been; the interaction exists only by the user giving input via mediums such as a mouse, keyboard or new add-ons such as steering wheels, joysticks, gamepads and guns. Extensions of these types of entertainment can be found in de arcades. Big machines where you actually step on a bike or sit in a car and ride the game, dance moves you have to perform at the speed of the dancer or music, a boxing simulation and many more. New innovations for the home environment have arrived; think of the EyeToy, where you are recorded by a camera which uses your movements as input for a game. The goal is to use your body movements to accomplish different goals such as hitting incoming balls with your arms as an imaginary bat. The latest in more interactive games in plot development, innovations holding powerful A.I. intelligence that reacts to the changes performed by the user. An example would be a reenactment of a historic battle, where the opponent changes its tactics to the tactic of the user. And what about The Sims, a very interesting game where you play a god-like figure that controls all the people in the house. These people responded with all kind of emotions, although preprogrammed, still interesting to care about others without actually suffering the consequences. We have seen the growth of the popular internet, people who play against other people. This challenge alludes less use for a central artificial intelligence as an opponent.

These day’s games are getting boring because most computers respond the same time, each time you play it. In the future there will be games that will never be the same, this way games stay interesting and a challenge to play. Smarter and smarter artificial intelligences are being developed and will eventual create opponents that could be used for all kind of challenges.

The experience is quite different when playing different games. You can get carried away and be actually mad when things go wrong, games are addictive and when not being able to finish certain parts a person could get agitated, and when you do: euphoric. With the coming of bigger screens and omni-directional sound the experience was enriched, you feel more a part of the game. The challenge is based on making most games as realistic as possible, in others words: make it be as much as our own world. The more the realism, the more you feel part of the experience.

In the future we will see more of the bigger versions which where, to certain limit, only available in arcades but will now become available for home-use. Think of entire rooms with walls as a screen, where you are actually inside the game. Think of games that not only limit its actions to a single screen and some speakers, but to more features that play with your senses. What about new mediapads that have more tools for better and advanced tactile experiences that brings new levels of entertainment into your life.

Game development is a very secret part of entertainment. Companies try to hide their innovations as long as possible because the competition is hard and the market is huge. Games have become a integral part of our lives; as entertainment, active and passive.

Research on Interaction

Interaction is all about communication. In this method of interaction between man and machine there are obviously two sides; the human side with all its emotions and experiences, and the computing side with all its hardware, circuits and many unexplored new “senses”. All aspects of Ambient Intelligence.

Let us first have a look at the human side. Our methods of communication are mostly linked to our senses (sight, touch, sound, taste and smell) and these are the aspects of a human body that obtain the most experience in entertainment. There is also the movement and coordination of our body that play a part in communication and experience. At the moment new media experiences are limited to the sensory stimulation of the eyes (via the visual aspect of a screen), the ears (via a sound system) and some touch (via the vibrations in a possible bass system or vibrating chair). The aim would be to enrich this experience and explore the stimulation of more senses to get a higher level of experience and entertainment, whether subtle or very obvious. Stated best, “Ambient Intelligence proposes a new world in which our interactions with products will become increasingly intuitive, using technologies that are sensitive to the way we communicate, the way we talk, feel, touch and use our body language. These technologies make new interactions possible by providing new sensorial points of contact between our environment and ourselves. In turn, these can allow us to increase our control and understanding of the material environment, and of our creative and productive interaction with it. We need to provide people with intelligent enablers that feed the senses and brain with entertainment and information. At the same time, we need to increase our freedom in many fields, enabling us to multitask, play, connect, care, explore, discover, manipulate, learn – to be whoever we want to be, to be human. Ambient Intelligence centers on meaningful experiences and is therefore devoted to generating experiences which are both physically and mentally in harmony, allowing a fluid, empowering interplay between mind, body and the surrounding natural or man-made environment.” - Emile Aarts & Stefano Marzano, The New Everyday, Views on Ambient Intelligence

The world around us is changing, but so are we. This ever changing world forces us to adapt to and learn from this environment at an astonishing speed. Why read a user manual when you can just press the button and see what happens? The latest generations are being fed by digital items and grow up with these innovations. There is no time to adjust to these new features, there is only time to accept and move on, and learn during this process. We have to face that when a product is finished and brought to the market it could already be outdated by others, losing its function to new features in this vast, changing digital world.

There are many things to consider when thinking of the hardware. A design should be adapted to the senses in order to enrich this experience. Some of the things a design should tackle:

- New skins The skin of a product is the contact point and thus the point where a rich tactile feeling must be obtained. A skin should be sensitive but also responsive, and what about things such as light and heat? Think about foldable displays and electronic ink.

- New materials New materials with new interesting properties could be quite useful, think of magnetic properties, memories features or materials that change shape, texture, hardness, size or any other aspect in order to change the environment and your emotional state.

- New horizons Interaction coming from the hardware itself, context awareness and other new technologies will enable objects to be more responsive to their situation, both physically and culturally. Objects will move into your world and back to their own.

- New responsiveness It will be important to have full interaction without any delay but also being able to adjust this link to your own liking. Systems that learn how to respond and adapt to the situation will be needed when using these self-sufficient systems.

- New perspectives We use new technologies to get new visions on things, think of infrared vision and enhanced hearing for the impaired. This can broaden our senses in new ways we never thought possible.

- New spaces When thinking of space try not to limit your thoughts to rooms and chambers but also think of the Internet, LAN, WLAN and other facilities. New spaces are being created everyday and introduced to us in a rapid pace.

- New presence What about being able to merge into a digital world? Projecting yourself into new locations – telepresence.

The challenge seems to be to bring the people’s sensorial experience and the technology closer together, to create this new way of interacting in a more natural end emotionally-based way. And do not forget about an all important item: choice, people need choice, interact or not, connect or disconnect. The more people feel part of the experience, the deeper the experience becomes. We have to rethink the nature of the human senses and the environment in relation to the new reality and create an environment that responds to the subjectivity of our moods, wishes and lifestyles.

Final Vision of DC222

It is all about experience. We wish to have a new experience simply because we do not want to copy something that already exists. The challenge is to create something new and interesting that will interest the people in experiencing this new media. The way we see it, this experience will be somewhat between a movie and a game. The movie has this emotional experience; you feel linked to the characters and slightly get into the story. Although a movie is quite passive in ways, there is still a small part of interaction due to the emotions you experience. The active side comes from games, they encompass a more active participation but limited to most people by the interactions methods, only using small tactile controls such as a mouse and keyboard. We will not use the terms ‘movie’ and ‘game’, but will only use the aspects of those parts in the development of our new experience. The goal is to design this experience that invokes emotion and the feeling that you are, at least a little, inside the story. This all coupled to a rich interaction that makes some influence to the story possible via a subtle and natural participation from the user. This involves using the senses of people to tackle these emotionally bound-experiences. Think of invoking emotions such as surprise and curiosity.

A supporting feature will be the effect the new media has on the environment of the user. So this is a two-way interaction experience. These days the experience is brought from “the outside”, the virtual world (single small screen and stereo sound) to inside the movie (from bigger screens and multi-directional sound to theaters and IMAX). We wish to seek new interesting methods for enriching this environmental change in order to expand the feeling of being inside the media and connecting the virtual world to the “real world”.

We want to focus on the people who use a home entertainment system with a widescreen TV and multi-directional sound. This is not bound by age, gender or social status. The people who use these systems are interested in its possibilities and will most likely like its features to their full extent. This means we will be bound to the possibilities of the living room of these people if we want it to integrate into their space for these kinds of entertainment possibilities. The motivation for this choice is that the emotional experience at home is not bound by any social constraints as in a movie theater. You are more likely to get emotionally attached to a story in your own home as you would in a large group of unfamiliar people, the experience is just different.

The final result should be something we are proud of and use as an example to others when we tell about the things we do at this faculty.

RutgerMenges

Work done in week 10

Brainstorm techniques

I'll prepare the following:

Warm up

This is a secret untill the brainstorm

The wildest idea technique

When you're generating ideas you've got all kinds of crazy ideas. The use of the wildes idea brainstorm technique is to get these ideas out. When you've got all your wild ideas out it's time to divergate. Each team member chooses what he thinks of as the wildest idea. Then everybody start thinking about what is good about this idea. These good points can be a starting point for practical and realistic ideas.

The reversals technique

The reverslas technique is quite simple. The only thing that you should do is to switch the "kernwoorden" in the problem definition. In example: Problem: How can I protect my children from the chrristmas tree. The "kernwoorden" are: I, children and christmas tree. When you switch the "kernwoorden" you'll get for instance: How can I protect the christmas tree from my children. This gives a total new view on the problem. New ideas arise.

In short the technique works as follows:

  1. Define the problem in one sentence
  2. Point out the "kernwoorden" in the problem definition
  3. Switch the "kernwoorden" in all possible ways
  4. Write down all the new problem definitions
  5. Find ideas for the new problem definitions. Forget the original problem while doing this.

MPEG 4
MPEG 4 is a fairly new video standard. This standard makes video steams suited for different devices. From cell phones to PDA’s to TV’s and to computers with a broadband internet connection. This is because the different parts of a video (sounds, moving pictures, still pictures) are objects within this standard. So that i.e. only the most important objects will be seen when streaming a movie on a cell phone. Another great advantage of MPEG 4 is that the different objects within a movie can be influenced by the user. This is particularly interesting for our project. Because the movie consists of objects that can be altered by the user an interactivity that goes further than play, pause and stop becomes possible.
SMIL
SMIL is something similar to MPEG 4. But where in MPEG 4 the different objects are always on the same device, they can be on different devices with SMIL. This is called distributed media.
  • SMIL has the potential to support distributed media, but as a standard, it only controls distributed media over several window containers on the same computer/device. -- JunHu 2005-03-09 10:14:00

StoryML
(As far as I can see) StoryML is based on SMIL. The storyML player is used i.e. on the NexTV project Jun Hu worked on. In StoryML there is an “Interactor Manager” that is able to communicate with the different interactors connected to the system (like a light and a robot). When a certain action is requires (for instance there should be red light in the room) the Interactor manager sends out a message to all interactors. The interactors, in turn, send a message back to the Interaction Manager with their capabilities (for instance talking, or change the clolor of the light). When a capability of a interactor matches the required action the Interactor manage transfers the tasks to the interactor. The interactor keeps “in touch” with the interactor manager with handshake messages that are sent on a regular basis. When a connection is lost the interaction manager can immediately find a new interactor, which can continue the task. So it’s possible to keep adding, or subtracting interactors from the system
  • StoryML is not based on SMIL, but rather a higher level of SMIL. It has certian advantages, but it also limits itself from controlling objects at the level that SMIL can do. We are going to invent a new markup language this time, based on SMIL, but somewhere between StoryML and SMIL. I am pleased that you start looking around different technologies and summerizing your understanding out of the research. -- JunHu 2005-03-09 10:14:00


Conclusion

Using software like StoryML we'll have a Mov'In that concists of different objects. These objects can be all sorts of things like a 3d object, a picture, an animation or another movie fragment. Interactivity is reached because all the objects can be altered by the user. The objects shouildn't necessary be on one device, but can be on different devices.

  • Yes, but using something like StoryML, instead of StoryML . -- JunHu 2005-03-09 10:23:10


Work done in week 9.

RESEARCH modern theatre

I’ve looked at modern styles of theatre in which the audience is (actively) involved. I will describe different currents within modern theatre below and mention what they could mean to our project.

Traditional theatre In traditional theatre or drama the audience and performers are separated by space. The performers know the outcome of the plot and the audience sits back and watches it happening. The “character” and nature of the character is revealed through dialog and lines. Further the script is usually linear. The story takes a fixed way from A to B.At the end of the evening everybody knows all the information about the plot and there are usually no loose ends.


You can see that traditional theatre and traditional film are much alike. This might indicate that we can use changes that are made in traditional theatre to make it modern theatre in our concept.


Interactive theatre Basically in interactive Drama each participant is both performer and audience.Roles can be assigned to participants, or participants make up their own character. (the character should fit in the plot). The only one who knows the “whole truth” is the director or scenario writer. The performers role play until the plot is resolved one way or another. Ever time the scenario is played there might be a different conclusion.


This is the most interaction you can get from an “audience” they actively play along. Implementing interactive theatre into Mov’in would require a lot of virtual intelligence and lots of movie streams, so that the movie reacts properly to the actions of the “audience”.


Environmental theatre En

Hyperdrama In hyperdrama the traditional linear script is ‘exploded” into branches. The action doesn’t take place on one stage, but in different spaces. Further action on the different “stages” takes place simultaneously. When you decide to keep watching to the main stage you will see the traditional plot as it is intended by the original playwright. To make the original plot more interesting the playwright usually decides to let some action off stage (after a romantic scene the man and his wife move of the stage, what will happen there…….).But since you can’t be offstage in a hyperdrama the hyperdramatist would write this action, so you can decide to follow the different actors as some kind of voyeur. At the end of the play you might or might not know the plot. This makes it interesting to keep on seeing the play until you’ve seen all sides of the play. (Voyeuring different actors each time the play is played.)

(hyperdrama is inspired on hypertext. The protocol that is used for internet browsing. Clicking on different liks will takeyou to different places).


This might be very interesting for our concept. There still can be a main plot just as in the traditional movie, but the “audience” can decide to see (parts) of the movie from a different kind of view. Second advantage of this hyperdrama is that it is highly addictive (when done properly). The big difference between the space in which hyperdrama is played and the living room is that the play and the location are tuned to each other, while the living room and the movie usually have nothing in common.


Interactive Drama (Interactive drama is not interactive theatre) In interactive drama the audience is a computer user. He is an actor as well and his actions can modify the story itself.

LaurieScholten

The living room

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The pictures above are some typical examples of how a living room is devided. You can see that the TV/entertainment system is placed near a wall and the furniture is placed in a half circle around it.

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To change the experience we also need to change how the environment of the living room makes you view the movie. By using the principle of different perspective viewing we can already make a change in the arrangement of the furniture of the living room.

JunHu

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