- Testing touch board
- General : I tested Bare conductive’s touch board. I put different 12 drum sounds into micro SD card chip inside the board, so that each 12 nodes of the board make assigned drum sounds. I plugged in headphone to the board, and I could hear loud and clear sound from the board.
- Finger with direct touch : Firstly I tried to touch directly with my finger to each node.
- Conductive materials : I tried two conductive materials – copper tape and conductive thread. They were all successful.
- Distant sense (proximity) : I tested if the touch board is reacting even if it is not actually touched. It was working, but the distance has to be closer than I expected. I adjusted the value of the proximity in the code, and the maximum distance value was about 5 cm.
- Volume of the sound : It was adjustable in the code.
- Look & Feel Prototype
- I build a physical prototype to show “Look & Feel” of the installation. It is going to be audio installation that hanging from the ceiling, so that audience can watch and feel the mood. The survivor’s room is upside down at the top, and that is the starting point of this installation. And when audience will touch some indicated shapes from middle-bottom part of this installation, they will able to hear the survivor’s testimony from headphone provided. I got several feedbacks on this prototype, and I am going to rethink about the geometric shapes in middle-bottom part. Originally I intended to give audience some positive atmosphere because this survivor’s story contains that how she became to achieve freedom and decided to influence other people through her experience. So I was thinking about some shapes of gems and diamonds, but in the state that audience does not know the whole story, it could make a distance from the top part – horrible room. So shape and materials will be changed in order to give more “fragile and helpless” notion of domestic abuse.
- I build a physical prototype to show “Look & Feel” of the installation. It is going to be audio installation that hanging from the ceiling, so that audience can watch and feel the mood. The survivor’s room is upside down at the top, and that is the starting point of this installation. And when audience will touch some indicated shapes from middle-bottom part of this installation, they will able to hear the survivor’s testimony from headphone provided. I got several feedbacks on this prototype, and I am going to rethink about the geometric shapes in middle-bottom part. Originally I intended to give audience some positive atmosphere because this survivor’s story contains that how she became to achieve freedom and decided to influence other people through her experience. So I was thinking about some shapes of gems and diamonds, but in the state that audience does not know the whole story, it could make a distance from the top part – horrible room. So shape and materials will be changed in order to give more “fragile and helpless” notion of domestic abuse.