Final Idea

Research Topic and Background

Our idea is about playing with the shadow. As we know the technology more advance, long time ago we only have a projector that only used for presenting something. But nowadays we have webcam and Xbox Kinect to presenting.

Our background for this project, make interactivity that using Xbox Kinect and projector. The idea is about experimenting the movement sensor with the shadow projector, so the Kinect capture the movement after that the projector projecting our movement into the screen. The projector not projecting our real picture, the projector transform our picture becomes a shadow, not a simple shadow of our body but become an iconic character shadow from each of our countries.

In the reference the shadow projecting the legendary Japanese character, because our reference is the no. 1 beer in Japan and they make that installation because they celebrate their anniversary Sapporo Beer. We make this installation also have a similar background with Sapporo Beer, because we have 5 members in our group, so we make 10 different iconic characters from our country.

I will give the link and show the image that related to our project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bnUn00tLNs

Problem Identification

Our problem for this project is the difficulties when we have to connect the Kinect with projector in one time, because the Kinect capture our movement after that the projector transform our picture become an iconic character shadow then projecting into the screen.

Aim and Objectives

Why we make this interactive installation? Because we want the audience can participate and experiment play with the shadow. As we know the requirement for this project “Be Experimental”, so we experiment with the projector and Kinect. We experimenting the movement sensor and the movement visualization on the screen.

Motivation

Our motivation is to make a brand new interactivity that the audience can see the visualization, so we motivate ourselves make a different interactivity even we know some group have done with this project, but we don’t give up, we still try our best to do this project.

Ideation and Concept