[Bradford] Wearable computing workshop, Saturday 27th April.

[Martyn Ranyard]

I would think that pretty much all the UK wearable tech people will be at
Makerfaire UK in Newcastle this weekend, that's a pretty bad clash.

That's where I'll be anyway.  Good luck though.
--
Martyn


On 24 April 2013 17:29, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:

> On 23 April 2013 21:09, Alice Kaerast <alice at kaerast.info> wrote:
> > There's a few wearable computing groups in Toronto doing some cool stuff,
> > and the universities there have some really exciting courses [0]
> >
> > They had an exhibition while I was there recently with some really cool
> > stuff [1]
> >
> > I particularly like the technologies which connect people, like Closeness
> > [2] - interactive jewellery which glows different colors according to
> your
> > distance from the paired device.  But you could go further with this.  In
> > the zine Designing The Future Of Sex [3], they suggest a bracelet with a
> > heart rate monitor, gsm modem and actuator to mirror each other's pulse -
> > which we can't be too far from being able to actually create.  Since the
> > zine is obviously NSFW, I'll paste an excerpt here:
> >
> > Obviously, at first a bracelet like this would be distracting.
> > Eventually, though, given enough time to get used to the stimulus, does
> > it fall into sensory integration? If so, what does that end up meaning—
> > can you tell when someone wakes up, what the rhythm of their day is,
> > just from a heartbeat? How does it cross over into in-person
> interactions?
> > There are some studies that have shown that even loud music can apply a
> > synchronizing effect to the heart’s rhythm—would this do that? What
> > happens when you have multiple partners, and receive multiple
> > heartbeats via different actuators
>
> No so much on the NSFW side, but Rain, who will be running the
> workshop, has made some pretty cool projects that are based around
> people and interaction. E.g.:
>
>   http://www.electromew.co.uk/projects/flutter.html
>
> > There are some other really interesting ideas in that zine, many of
> which we
> > could at least build the first generation of today.
> >
> > I'm at the Keighley Worth Valley Railway's diesel gala all this weekend,
> but
> > I wish you all be best with this workshop and look forward to hearing
> about
> > what creations you come up with.
>
> Ah, I'm sure the diesel gala will be a lot of fun too! Which reminds
> me that I haven't used any of my free travel on K&WVR and I really
> ought to before my membership is up for renewal in June.
>
> Saturday is really just an introduction to wearable tech so I doubt
> that there will be anything too advanced/complex getting made, but
> hopefully it will inspire people to explore the area in more detail
> after the workshop.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Back
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>
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