22-04-2014, 12:30 PM
Digital Jewellery – The technical part
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ABSTRACT
In this paper we describe the technical part of the Digital
Jewellery project at the Institute for Geoinformatics
Münster, Germany. This project takes place during
summer term 2007. The two main parts are a video player
containing a bluetooth scanner running on our iDisplays
and several digital jewellery created by Jayne Wallace and
Patrick Olivier at the Culture Lab Newcastle of the
University of Newcastle. This text focuses on the software
part, not the digital jewellery part.
INTRODUCTION
During the last years, large displays have been getting
cheaper and cheaper. So more and more large displays are
placed into the environment. The Digital Jewellery project
tries to establish a more personal connection between
people and these displays. Normally, only impersonal
informations are shown on displays, like news, timetables
or commercials. But these displays could also be used for
showing some more of „you“. Our idea is to create some
digitial jewellery what will be recognized by displays and
show some personal information about you. In case you
think, personal information are only your name, your
address, your birthday, your mobile phone number, etc.,
you're wrong! How about showing some holiday photos or
movie clips? Or movies from your work or hobbies? Or a
movie clip you've just taken on your way to work? Maybe
it would be cool to show to your friends or colleagues or
just any person walking by the displays with you. We try
to find out how you and the environment will react to this.
General conditions
The evaluation of the whole project will take place during
august and September 2007. Because of the focus of this
paper on the technical part of the project, the result of the
evaluation will be available in another paper. The four
selected participants are a professor, an institute employee,
a PhD student and a Graduate student, so there is no
problem because of the evaluation period isn't located
directly in the summer term.
Digital Jewellery
The digital jewellery will contain a small bluetooth device.
What exactly isn't know yet because the devices are still
under development. The requirements are that the device
will operate continuously, without any external input and
will be “visible”. In this combination, “visible” means that
it will be visible to the bluetooth scanner, like any
bluetooth mouse or headset. Higher bluetooth devices can
be set to an invisible mode that will hide them from the
bluetooth scanner.
CONCLUSION
The bluetooth scanner and video player developed during
this project are able to play video clips independent from
any codecs based upon found bluetooth devices in full
screen mode on the iDisplay systems at the Institute for
Geoinformatics. During a short test period the software
runs 24h without any problems on the iDisplays.
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ABSTRACT
In this paper we describe the technical part of the Digital
Jewellery project at the Institute for Geoinformatics
Münster, Germany. This project takes place during
summer term 2007. The two main parts are a video player
containing a bluetooth scanner running on our iDisplays
and several digital jewellery created by Jayne Wallace and
Patrick Olivier at the Culture Lab Newcastle of the
University of Newcastle. This text focuses on the software
part, not the digital jewellery part.
INTRODUCTION
During the last years, large displays have been getting
cheaper and cheaper. So more and more large displays are
placed into the environment. The Digital Jewellery project
tries to establish a more personal connection between
people and these displays. Normally, only impersonal
informations are shown on displays, like news, timetables
or commercials. But these displays could also be used for
showing some more of „you“. Our idea is to create some
digitial jewellery what will be recognized by displays and
show some personal information about you. In case you
think, personal information are only your name, your
address, your birthday, your mobile phone number, etc.,
you're wrong! How about showing some holiday photos or
movie clips? Or movies from your work or hobbies? Or a
movie clip you've just taken on your way to work? Maybe
it would be cool to show to your friends or colleagues or
just any person walking by the displays with you. We try
to find out how you and the environment will react to this.
General conditions
The evaluation of the whole project will take place during
august and September 2007. Because of the focus of this
paper on the technical part of the project, the result of the
evaluation will be available in another paper. The four
selected participants are a professor, an institute employee,
a PhD student and a Graduate student, so there is no
problem because of the evaluation period isn't located
directly in the summer term.
Digital Jewellery
The digital jewellery will contain a small bluetooth device.
What exactly isn't know yet because the devices are still
under development. The requirements are that the device
will operate continuously, without any external input and
will be “visible”. In this combination, “visible” means that
it will be visible to the bluetooth scanner, like any
bluetooth mouse or headset. Higher bluetooth devices can
be set to an invisible mode that will hide them from the
bluetooth scanner.
CONCLUSION
The bluetooth scanner and video player developed during
this project are able to play video clips independent from
any codecs based upon found bluetooth devices in full
screen mode on the iDisplay systems at the Institute for
Geoinformatics. During a short test period the software
runs 24h without any problems on the iDisplays.