Project (PRID302)

Mediaura Visualisation

This project seeks to study the of the use of biofeedback as an alternative form of human-computer interface, but in particular as a method of enhancing a user’s sense of connection or embodiment in virtual activities. To explore this I have taken an existing virtual activity which could be described as a process that is isolated from the user (in the sense that interaction is essentially non-existent) and have used biofeedback to transform it into a biomorphic virtual environment where the user becomes a necessary component of it.

Technologies:

C++ and DirectX: An existing virtual environment, the music visualisation.

Biofeedback measurement: GSR, heart-rate and temperature.

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Journal Posts:

Latest Photos Upload

4th June, 2010

I had bit of a backlog of photos I took of a variety of places mostly around Dartmoor, which are now uploaded.

HTML and CSS Fluid Transparent Rounded Corner Boxes

2nd May, 2010

That’s quite a lot to demand of a title, and a box on a website as well it seems. In my work I have had a couple of designs lately that have required me to think up a good and solid way of having four rounded corners in a box that is one of a couple of things:

Totally fluid, as in it resizes in both axes in accordance with changing content size.
Each corner needs actual transparency to sit on gradient backgrounds.

So what to do about the boxes having exhausted quite an extensive Google search and not finding a method that really suited me? Make one up of course.

Rounded corner CSS and XHTML box example

Dartmoor Photos

23rd March, 2010

Moorland walks seem to inevitably result in camera shots where I take a few across a landscape and think “Yeh, I’ll merge these together when I get home” and quite often I eventually do. Here are a couple of the latest: