Ideas
I’m realizing that we have four weeks left to finish our project. During this week I kept trying to focus my project idea but I didn’t speak with more people.
I am really inspired by the Body Coding reference by Nancy Nowacek that I shared last week. Kinect2Gesture by Gene Kogan seems an easy to use tool. This would be a good opportunity to experience being a remixer.
I have been also thinking about games.
In the Body Coding documentation (but not in the repository) there is a movement dictionary for p5js. What could be done using it with the online editor that has automatic updating of the sketch window? How can it be used as part of a lesson plan in a course like ICM? What about making it a game? I have questions about the possible complexity of the gestural language, and how it could be taught.
Another path is to think in computation in a more general sense. Brainf*ck is a Turing-complete [esoteric] programming language that has only 8 instructions. It is impractical and difficult to use, but it is playful and can be thought as a puzzle, at the same time that it helps to understand the basics of computation. The gestural language would be easier to teach, and I can see a more direct way of making a puzzle/game out of this. I have the question of how it could be used as part of a lesson plan. Apparently the language has been used in some courses, but I think it can have a broader impact.
General plan
We have four weeks left:
- Interviews and definition of the project
- Development of first prototype(s)
- User testing and more interviews
- Development and documentation of final prototype for presentation