Final Project

Guidelines:

  • You can do a personal project or work as a pair with someone else.
  • This is an open project. I don’t wish to enforce any specific theme or approach on you. As long as the project relates to the field of Physical Interaction Design.
  • Think of a topic of physical interaction that you find interesting and fun to work with. You will be more productive if you enjoy what you are doing.
  • Think about the context and meaning of your work. What are you trying to tell others? Who is it made for? Where/how is it going to be presented?
  • Critical approach to technology is encouraged.
  • The software or hardware that you use to create your project does not matter. Use whatever you feel most comfortable with. The teaching and tutoring is mainly going to focus on Arduino and Pure Data.

Topics you might find interesting

  • Interactive Installations – interactive artworks that respond to the actions of the visitors.
  • Performance Instruments – musical/audiovisual instruments.
  • Tangible User Interfaces
  • Wearable Electronics & E-Textiles – combining electronics with textiles, clothes and accessories.

Project Proposal

You need to write a project proposal that describes what you want to do as your final project. Please try to answer the following questions:

  • What is your concept?
  • What is the interaction?
  • Who is it for?
  • What technology are you using? Hardware? Software?
  • Find 1-3 similar projects and briefly describe how your project relates to them. How is your project different?

Length: 1 A4 (you can have additional pages for images and sketches)

Presentation & Documentation

  • You get one extra credit if you present your project on the last day of the course.
  • You can also earn an extra credit by documenting your project.
  • Here’s what is required for documentation:
    1. Short description of your project
      • I’ll use this one for the course web page
      • One paragraph is enough
    2. Process and learning outcome
      • how did your idea change during the course (if at all)
      • what worked well in your design and implementation?
      • what didnʼt work, did you find problems that made you rethink your
        implementation or concept?
    3. Source files (code, patches, laser cutter design files etc.)
      • I would like to share these with future students of this course, please
        tell me if you for some reason don’t want your source files to be shared.
      • But: “the code is too ugly” is not a valid reason 😉