{"id":41,"date":"2012-10-03T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-10-03T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:22:57","slug":"physical-computing-hits-and-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/physical-computing-hits-and-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Computing hits and misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/176\/\">Physical Computing\u2019s Greatest Hits (and misses)<\/a>\u00a0-Tom Igoe<\/h1>\n<p>I loved looking through this list of different types of physical computing projects. Some were very inspiring (mechanical pixels, fields of grass), and others I&#8217;ve seen many many times. what I really like about both the mechanical pixels and fields of grass are the scale and response given to a user. Seeing so many objects working together in harmony is mesmerizing and hypnotic. I think these ideas are great for art pieces or interactive displays, but I think the usefulness degrades when I try to think of &#8220;practical&#8221; uses (whatever that means).<\/p>\n<p>One trend I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot recently is the use of the Kinect in projects. I think its fascinating to use our bodies as a controller and interact with digital objects on a screen (or other objects). There seems to be a market for it as well since there are other competitors making similar products (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asus.com\/Multimedia\/Motion_Sensor\/Xtion_PRO\/\">Asus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/leapmotion.com\/\">Leap Motion<\/a> are both interesting examples). I don&#8217;t think these are the epitome of human\/computer interaction, however. I think the problem is in the feedback. I&#8217;ve played some games on with the kinect on the xbox. One game, for example, you block dodgeballs with your arms legs and torso. But where&#8217;s the feedback? How do I know I blocked one? I don&#8217;t feel anything on my arm or leg, or anything anywhere. I think that&#8217;s an opportunity for improvement. There should be resistance and feedback built into the system in order to achieve a more life-like feeling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical Computing\u2019s Greatest Hits (and misses)\u00a0-Tom Igoe I loved looking through this list of different types of physical computing projects. Some were very inspiring (mechanical pixels, fields of grass), and others I&#8217;ve seen many many times. what I really like about both the mechanical pixels and fields of grass are the scale and response given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itp","category-physcomp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}