sensing the pulse of gsd

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gsd studio terraces

gsd studio terraces

Sensing the pulse of gsd

site-specic biometric project

Context

GSD building is conceptualized as a palace

of design production. Opened studios stretched on

as well as their authors. Personal spaces became

publicly reachable; sometimes even consciously

exposed. GSD just like a living organism breathes

design activity. However, in overwhelming context of

studio terraces, students are sometimes overexposed.

Pressure of design assignments, readings and terms,

together with visual dispersion and overall dynamics

mark GSD as creative, but latently stressful place.

This project questions relation between

personal and collective life rhythm inside institution

like this, and possibilities of visualizing it and

proposed. First one is real-time sensing station which

should provide response to spatial conditions of thestudio terraces, and second one is actuation station

which should visualize personal as well as collective

heartbeat of GSD in real-time.

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biofeedback model - wikipedia

interactive screen - illustration

Tube Installation

Tube Installation is based on Biofeedback

method - the process of becoming aware of various

physiological functions using instruments that provide

information on the activity of those same systems,

with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will.

Processes that can be controlled include brainwaves,

muscle tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain

perception. Biofeedback may be used to improve

health or performance, and the physiological changes

often occur in conjunction with changes to thoughts,

emotions, and behavior.

Installation has two parts: interactive screen with

future ambient, and the room where sensing and

visualizing (biofeedback) process is taking place.

Before entering installation person have to

pick one or multiple points on RGB color palette

(interactive screen). This choice will be crucial formaking personalized ambience inside installation.

If person chose just one point (one particular color)

this color should gradually appear during the sensing

process inside the room (as the heart pulse gets

will be starting color atmosphere (highest heartbeat

rate), and other should be transit point to the last color

point which should determinate ending atmosphere

inside installation (when one reach lowest constant

heart pulse).

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tube installation - model

tube installation - photomontage

This way person can design its own real-time

color ambiences and data collected this way could be

used to statistically determinate most calm or most

nervous color, or the most popular color routes.

After person enters the installation, connects to

a sensor and take comfortable, static position, screen

on top of the installation (above the persons head)

will start to emit color according to persons choice

and transform installation into real-time responsive

architectural system. As heart pulse gets slower,

according to personalized color path. Since colortransformation is controlled with heart pulse, slowing

down becomes personalized and manipulated

journey through color spectrum.

Real-time visualization of heartbeat is bringing

to consciousness importance of controlling your own

breathing and pulse, especially in stressful situationsof dense productivity and social dynamics.


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heart installation - photomontage

gsd installation - model

Heart of the GSD

Heart of GSD is installation which should

actuate personal and collective heartbeats measured

in Tube installation.

This means that these two installations should

communicate through wireless network. Every

personal measurement in ambient room will be

transmitted and actuated in real-time on the Heart of

GSD installation using sound, movement and color.

Bigger part of installation will be meterological balloon

settled on the wooden base with installed subwoofer

inside. Pulse measured in BPM will be transformed in

pulse sound (heart beat bass sound) actuated throughSubwoofer beneath weather balloon. Because of

small weight of balloon, sound frequency of subwoofer

would not only serve as audio actuator but also as

physical pulsation actuator. This audio and physical

pulsation should be actuated simultaneously with the

projection also based on pulse (BPM). Therefore, in

order to design dislocated real-time beating humanheart, there should be code which will translate pulse

data expressed in BPM to the visual pulse (color

pulse), and audio pulse (bass).


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project functioning - model

First 30 seconds of each pulse measured in the

Tube installation will be memorized and application

code will count collective average pulse rhythm after

each pulse input (BPM). Average collective pulse,

actuated in the same manner as personal pulse, will

function as a screensaver, since it will be activejust when personal heartbeat measuring is not taking

place. On wooden base of Heartbeat installation

should be installed screen which would show mode of

actuation (personal / collective) and pulse rate (BPM).

By actuating heartbeat in real time, this

installation tends to visualize collective design activityand transform GSD building into living organism.


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urban stress visualizer - illustration

subway implementation - illustration

Urban scale

It would be interesting to see how this idea

would function in urban surrounding. In this sense

urban equipment could become sensing station

place where pulse sensors could be implemented.

It is important to map different pieces of urban or

transportation equipment which are frequently in

contact with human capillary tissue (benches or

handrails in subway). Different pulse results could be

measured according to different urban location, for

example in the bus station and the park, or among

two different parks. Pulse rate i.e. amount of stress

should be visualized on the map in real-time and this

data could have great value in determinating whichare the most stressful or the most peaceful parts of

the city. Also this could have big impact on future

design proposals especially in context of landscape

architecture, urban design and design for public

domain. If we introduce possibility of visualization

as a main attractor for collective pulse sensing, it

could be possible to redesign urban ambiences withtransforming light conditions or projections according

Therefore, by using almost the same code and

technology from GSD biometric project, stressful and

boring ride in a tram or a subway could become real-

time therapeutic session which can make people to

use public transportation more frequently, or it could

even have positive effects on negative occurrences in

public transport such as violence or pick-pocketing.




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corporative use - illustration

Commercialization

Commercialization of the project can go in both:

private and public direction.

Private direction would be transposition of

with its terrace based spatial logic is similar to a

similar emotional states among its users. In this case

measured using well known psychometrical and factor

relation of stress, pulse rate and conscious as well as

unconscious perception and use of particular color orambient. This also applies to public commercialization

which has good example in subway biometric project

proposed above.




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pulse sensor - hardware

Components and Budget

Actual components:

Processing stations (computers) x 2 600 $

Meteorological balloon 40 $*

Subwoofer 70 $*

LCD Touch screen 3,5 30 $*Color 128x128 LCD 15 $*

LCD screen 200 $

Arduino board x 2 60 $*

Pulse sensor 30$*

Wires 5$*

Additional electronically equipment (electricity

cables,) 20 $Additional physical equipment (construction

parts,) 50 $*

TOTAL: 1120 $ (all included)

*300 $ (using GSD equipment)

Virtual components:No virtual components in budget

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pulse room

color the name - installation

references

Pulse Room is an interactive installation

featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light

bulbs, 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of

three metres. The bulbs are uniformly distributed over

placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detectsthe heart rate of participants. When someone holds

the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and

exact rhythm of his or her heart.

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_room.

php

The idea for Color the Name project came from

a desire to give a truthful answer to a simple childish

question: Do you know which color that is?. Well

of course we do, for it is a simple question and one

does not have to be a genius to answer it. But do we

really pair the same color values with the same color

names? Does that mean that beige means exactly

the same color value for all of us? Is there a precise

border between crimson and purple? Which values

are considered to be blue and which are far too light or

greenish for that? How can we tell? Who can we ask?

h t t p : / /www.co l o r t hename.com/ i ndex .

php?lang=EN&about=1.


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URBAN CYBERNETIC PATENTUnderground Emotional Mapping (2011)

Patent for UndergroundEmotional Mapping

(0) Mapping the emotional

condition of subway passengers

using skin conductance sensors and

GPS.

(1) Inventors: Nikola Bojic

Correspondence Address:

36 Oxford St

Cambridge

02138, MA

Project is based on idea of mesuring

emotional state of subway passengers and

accordingly influencing on their emotional

state by changing light ambience.

Background of this project is bio-feedback,

psychological method used for stress

treatment. Since measurements are based on

skin conductance sensors installed inside

subway wagon and tracked by GPS, project

aims to transform usual subway map to

underground emotional map with a final idea

of designing smart phone app which should

make these geolocated-emotional data

publically accessible in real-time.

(3) ABSTRACT

(2) Keywords:biofeedback,

subway, stress, skin

conductance, sensor,

tracking, map, light

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URBAN CYBERNETIC PATENTUnderground Emotional Mapping (2011)

Project uses Galvanic Skin Conductance

sensors which provide information about

human emotional arousal. Sensors are

implemented inside handrails and sensing

field is expanded to all steel tactile

surfaces inside subway wagon. Also,

processing unit is installed in every wagon

with aim of counting average data of

collective emotional arousal. These

averages should be counted once per minutein order to provide up to date information.

Average data is attached to geo-location,

and they are both visualized on map in

different color gradients. During the ride

changes in emotion should be visualized in

real-time on color transformations and this

color transformation will be visible as

gradient on each subway line as wagon would

move. This new map of based on emotion

lines not on just subway lines will become

part of smart phone application which

should enable people to plan their routes

not just on principle of shortest path, buton principle of the most relaxing path.

Algorithms which balance length of ride and

length of relaxation should provide user

possibility of choice in planning their

routes.

(5) TECHNICAL CLAIMS

Project is based on Biofeedback - process

of becoming aware of various physiological

functions using instruments that provide

information on the activity of those same

systems, with a goal of being able to

manipulate them at will. Processes that can

be controlled include brainwaves, muscle

tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain

perception. Biofeedback may be used to

improve health or performance, and thephysiological changes often occur in

conjunction with changes to thoughts,

emotions, and behavior. Eventually, these

changes can be maintained without the use

of extra equipment.

By incorporating skin conductance sensors

in handrails inside subway wagon, it

becomes possible to apply biofeedback

method on the subway passengers. Using data

provided by sensors, it is possible to

determine level of emotional arousal

(especially stress) and accordingly make

changes in light conditions inside wagonwhich should have therapeutic effect on

passenger. Changes in light conditions

primarily imply transformations of light

color and intensity using existing

psychological knowledge on perception and

color effects on emotion. This project

could also have positive impact on violence

and criminal in subway.

Data produced by this type of sensing will

be geo-located using GPS, and therefore

make base for transforming common subway

map into underground emotional map. New map

produced in real-time has goal of providing

information about collective emotional

state on one particular subway station or

in one particular wagon, or on one

particular line. This knowledge could

influence not just emotion of passengers

but on a broader urban and social system

since it potentially can have effect on

decision making about riding in subway, or

entering in one particular station, as well

as on creating routes which are not just

pragmatic but also therapeutic and

enjoyable. Smart phone app should make thisnew map accessible and user-friendly to

general public. Emotional data provided

within this project could also be used for

infrastructure management and for further

design decisions related to underground and

its on-ground socio-spatial context.

(4) DESCRIPTION

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