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Introduction To Cyber Therapy | Kane Andrews | HMC Interactive | Drake Music | bibicAs part of the Media Sandbox project, HMC Interactive will develop cyber therapy based software to help benefit children with learning disorders which could be used in specialised sensory rooms. The software would stimulate the user by giving visual feedback to sounds (such as their own voice or an instrument) in an aesthetically pleasing form which they would not normally have in everyday life.
Research begins on tonal therapy.Using quantative data such as audiograms, music will be produced that would relate to the tones and frequency involved in the specific requirements of the user which would benefit their tonal therapy and progression. On top of the aural based stimulation, graphic visualisations would also appear in the sensory room which react to the noises and sounds given off, providing two beneficial types of feedback.
Media from the Half-Way Presentation | Dan Efergan | HMC | AardmanWe're very nearly there on deciding the final application of our half way experiments. We're currently edging (cautiously) towards producing two final products, although one will be very simple. The only thing holding us back from announcing our plans is signing off the use of particular Aardman properties.
While you wait, why not check out some of the footage from the presentation of the experiments.
Check out the Flickr pics (they're also available amongst the others in the Media Sandbox Pool.
Look at the size of my peripheral | Dan Efergan | HMC | AardmanOver the top webcam setup.
Problems and Joys with Processing | Dan Efergan | HMC | AardmanProcessing's been out a lot recently…
Unfortunately we can't seem to get the Face Tracking C++ stuff into Processing, even though someone else has been kind enough to create a Processing Library for us. I think it's just instability with the latest version (as running simple Library commands throws up Memory errors), but we're just not sure.
Not too much worry though, cause Mike's Iris tracking in a whole different way.
So although Processing has been a little frustrating for our work, we have managed to use it successfully for someone else's project all together:
Both the lab and the project has been creating a great sense of camaraderie between the groups involved. And although we (Aardman and HMC) haven't been able to hang around the lab during the day, there's been a few evenings (quite sadly) hanging about, generally geekin', and getting sucked into other people's projects.
One of the most thought provoking has been Simon and Simon's work on swarming behavior. Inspired by this we couldn't help but put together some Processing sketches testing out some of those theories. Check out the results below (the 3dd one needs updating, excuse the poor encoding until it's done).
