Our Spatial Media final was called Body Beats. I decided to try my hand at making my first music installation. My design intentions were for a piece that encouraged casual interaction without a complex learning curve. There had to be clear immediate visual and audio feedback for gestures so that the user easily grasped the interaction. Also, I wanted the audio to sound nice regardless of user input, ie. they could stand anywhere in the space.

Photo Documentation from Meredith

The coffee table media center is an interactive table that supports the needs of the TV viewer. It combines functionality of a remote control, digital video recorder, television guide and fan media guide. The multi-modal interface of an interactive screen enables all television related information to be combined into one place. The coffee table can display a digital television guide, which can be scrolled by swiping hand gestures. Each television show can be dragged into the DVR bar also with hand gestures. The DVR guide can also be displayed by swiping out the DVR bar. This allows viewers to have a larger and more intuitive view of TV shows as objects on a table. Additionally if the viewer isnt doing this, contextual media can be displayed as a TV show is playing. Back stories, character backgrounds and fan forums can be displayed relevant to the show being watched.

File: testApp.cpp

#include "testApp.h"

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void testApp::setup(){
    myVideoGrabber.initGrabber(320,240);
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void testApp::update(){
    myVideoGrabber.grabFrame();

    unsigned char * pixels = myVideoGrabber.getPixels();

    if(mouseX

#ifndef _TEST_APP
#define _TEST_APP

#include "ofMain.h"
#include "ofAddons.h"

class testApp : public ofSimpleApp{

public:
	void setup();
	void update();
	void draw();

	void keyPressed(int key);
	void keyReleased(int key);
	void mouseMoved(int x, int y );
	void mouseDragged(int x, int y, int button);
	void mousePressed(int x, int y, int button);
	void mouseReleased();

    ofVideoGrabber myVideoGrabber;

    unsigned char red, green, blue;
};

#endif