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Friday, October 29, 2010

Proposal 2 : MadShock

Title
MadShock


Background
We all know for a fact that everybody gets mad. That emotion of being out of control and feeling like you wanna punch everyone you come across is called 'anger'. Anger is triggered when we get hurt, or pissed off, when someone do or say something against our likings, when things don't go the way we planned, easier said a lot of things can tick us off. For me on my daily basis, heavy traffic does that but it's nothing good music can't overcome. Although how easily we become angered by certain things varies among each of us and how we express our anger are also different.

Problem Identification
Everybody hates getting scold at, or having someone being a jerk during one whole lecture for no reason. That's because anger can hurt the people around us. The issue here is not many of
these 'hot-tempered people' are aware of this fact. Pain and problems are part of our daily life, we need to live with it and solve our problems.

Aim & Objective
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To give an image how anger can hurt other people ( literally )
- To make hot-headed people repent and change for the better ( sounds funny but might be possible )
- To study how different people react to pain ( facts I found online proved that some people actually enjoy pain -_- most of the stories are found are sex-related so I won't link here >.< )


Motivation
I used to get mad easily before ( my girlfriend being my favorite victim >.< ) and I bet we all have met someone in our who always go insane over the smallest things ( for me it was my brother - one time, he used to punch us; his little brothers when we suck at a video game but he got married and is a better person now xD ). So yeah, I pretty much knows how it feels to be the jerk and the one being 'jerked' at xD I'm sure we all do. When you changed to be more matured and better, you realized some things you did back then are so stupid and pointless ( fun nonetheless haha ). So I'm hoping to move and open some eyes of those who are jus
t so blind by their pure sheer irritating madness, hurting people around them day by day.

Ideation and Concept
There will be two platforms, one for the touch sensing and the other for transmitting electric shock ( pain ). This installation functions as a display of how our anger can hurt other people.
When a person punches ( provide touch ) the touch sensor ( covered with fabric ), electric shock will be sent to the person on the other end. How high the voltage depends on how high the pressure received on the touch sensor.

Target Audience
Hot-tempered people and friends ( everyone but definitely not senior people, might get a heart attack through the shock >.< )

References


PainStation

proof that some people have fun with pain that someone decided to make a game using pain.
Oh and those people in Jackass. sick


Analog Fabric Joypad

in this instructable, the author used touch for a different purpose. still it detects pressure and surely its function can be directed to a different use.

Design Approach
Two platform programmed using Processing ( for touch sensing ) and Arduino ( for transmitting data + electric waves ).
- Might be visual, displays calmness screensaver-like image initially then change to chaotic when touch is detected
- Blue/green ( calm ), red ( mad )

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