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Final Proposal: Message Treasure

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:31:57 +0000

Title: MESSAGE TREASURE

Description: Send us a message of your location, you will have a chance to win a big prize.

Concept/Background: Information = Money , in a lottery model, user pay for small money to get a chance to win a bigger money. In this model, user paying their time to read a short message instead of paying for real money. More users participate into this ‘game’, bigger prize they can get. “Game Theory”. in one side, by spreading the new to get more people involved into the game, user will have a chance to win bigger Prize, in another side, more user join this game, each one will have smaller chance to win.

Scenarios: User can choose to go to the website, logging to the system(providing their cellphone number, installing Loki plug-in), choose to buy one ‘free ticket’, the system will send a Geo-Related advertisement to users’ cellphone. Or user can choose to send their locations to the system also. They can buy more tickets, there is no limits. The system will draw ‘Path’ online in real time with their last 4 digital number of their cellphone in order to let user track the ‘game’.

References: Loki, Lottery, Flash(Shared Objects), Database

Schedule: coming soon

Final Projects: Stairway to Heaven

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:56:26 +0000

The way from Midterm to Final:

1. rewrite the cube objects into a display lists

2. add another window to have another view of the stairs

3. add a coin with Obama is on the face, animated to falls down to the stairs slowly

4. add sensors to sense the distance of the user to zoom in & out of the view.

week 9 - ideas for final

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:11:06 +0000

1. Trade your time for food(one business plan of SMS Lottery). I think it’s better to narrow down the category of ads. Because for business owners, they want their money on ads could reach certain target people - their future customers. Even though, the main spirit of the idea is not changed. It will have a iphone application make people easier to sent short message and receive ads. when people send the message, their preference and location also send to the server, the server will select ads according to their location and preference. On the other side, the web page will show illustrate people’s participations in live. The award will be free dinners. More people joined the game, the final winners could bring more friends to the dinner together. The income from post ads on web page and send ads to cell phone as short messages.(ads from low and mid price restaurant).

2. IP Camera with funny voice in public. Combine a speaker with IP camera, people can talk to the person by writing message on the web page. People also can change the pitch and durition or echo of the voice.

Week 8 - SMS Lottery

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:29:37 +0000

sample weblink

Week 4 - video streaming/Presentation with Andrea and Joshua

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:26:11 +0000

Thanks for ITP Video Streaming Kits. It’s powerful and fun to try. Andrea and I came up an idea to use puppets to make a TV talk show in order to tell the summer trip which she and josh had. In order to make it fun, we tried low-resolution diversity background by put a giant LCD screen in front of our web camera. It’s not a very successful presentation because we didn’t have enough rehearsal. But it’s a really fun experience. Thanks Andrea and Josh…

Here is part of our script:

A: Welcome to tonight’s show. Tonight’s guests are Josh….. and Andrea. Welcome!
Josh I heard you grew up near Boston.

He used to be so cute.

Josh: Hi everyone. It’s great to be here.

A: Andrea, I heard your from Nova Scotia. Is this true?

Ang: Actually, no. I’m from Long Island.

A: Let’s talk about how you guys met each others. There were
rumors and pictures from TNO. Let’s have a look at it…

Ang: It was a perfect evening. I was walking slowly down the beach. The sun was setting. The breeze was blowing.

Josh: I saw the most beautiful girl in the world.

Alex: Ha. Ha. Ha. That looks very special. I heard you had a big trip. Tell us about it.

Andrea: Oh boy! I can’t wait to tell you about our glorious adventure!

Josh: Golly, me neither, Ang.

Andrea: Wow! America sure has some wonderful sights to see!

(truck images)

Alex: So did you guys fight alot?
Andrea: Did we ever! Josh kept making us stop for Double Gulps.

Andrea: Then we had to stop for him to pee.

Alex: Oh wow. Why don’t you tell us a little about the towns you stopped in along the way.

Andrea: Sure thing, Jerry. Well here we are at our first destination South Carolina. The gateway to the south.

Josh: It was truely beautiful.

Andrea: Next stop, Savannah…

Andrea: From there, we headed down to Disney. Its was so magical that we decided to put our differences aside.

Week 2 - Presentation of Holly and Tomas

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:19:10 +0000

In order to tell Holly’s wedding story(Congratulations Holly!), I joined their group to develop the story telling chat room. It’s a chat room based on JenChat, a simply javascript/php online chat. And it’s powerful also. you can put rich content there like embed a picture or anything. But there is only one problem, the php let the chat room to keep refresh every 5 seconds, so if one put a video there, it will automatically restart from the beginning every 5 second. It’s annoy. To avoid this, one solution is to put it on another panal, seperate it with the chat room.

Week3 - audio streaming

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:05:31 +0000

Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world! - NICECAST

I followed by Shawn’s steps of setting up audio streaming, by using ITP streaming server, it’s pretty easy to stream my iTune music onto the internet. Then I came up an idea of using voice over system in Mac, streaming the artifacial voice from the chat room. The java application would be a processing program read the chat room line by line and generate mac voice. Then use the nicecast to broadcast the voice out.

Go MIDI - Midterm

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:59:43 +0000

Go MIDI is an online website integrating MIDI(musical instrument digital interface) recorder, editor, streaming players, archiving library and network community, which will give users experience of midi production and sharing, in order to provide an environment to encourage both music professionals and amateurs to learn music.

For midterm, Go MIDI add features by sharing key notes to let user performance together. Built by Flash, Using Flash Media Server to sharing data. All the midi library is uploaded on the website. User go to the website, downloading the midi files, mouse press keys in the flash application, the flash give user feedback by animate the graphics and play the midi files; besides this, the application also send to the server key information to share the pressed keys information, so everyone can participate into the performance.

The hardcore in the flash application is to connect the server and using shared objects to share the midi information. The shared information now only key_number. For the future, it will have duration and pressure/force.

The future architecture of the project will be

client side: java read midi controller/keyboard, using Open sound control send it to Flash, Flash use XML socket to receive this signal and give user interactive interface. User can download music sheet, play and record it. The application will send users data onto the database.

server side: online database, midi streaming to let user participate into performance online.

The main purpose of “Go MIDI” is to help music enthusiast to evolve into an online community, exchange their learning experience. Its target age group will be teenager from 12 to 18 and adults, who like computer music and want to learn mostly by themselves, also who have a certain of time online per day.

IRC - talking about summer story

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:50:14 +0000

I met this guy “Rob”, who is the only guy reply to me when I bring up the question ” how’s everyone summer”. I went to “maths” room in Enet, I thought it’s a room have less dirty words response. When Rob met me, it takes a long time for him to reply me, I didn’t change rooms. I tried to find some conversation with him by looking his website. But it’s really hard at beginning. When I start my store, he seem very into it. Our chat lasts almost one hour. At the end, I told him it’s my homework, and promise him hidding his online name. We exchanged our real name at last. It’s FUN!

this is the beginning, sometime I even do not know what I talking about!

This is my summer story, Enjoy!

Shinerie - having a piece of future on your ear

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:53:50 +0000

Shinerie is a stunning earring, a geeky fashionistas dream. It embed a glowing led into a beautiful crystal, emitting soft natural lights.

Each shinerie is high-end made, shaped, and polished to ensure a unique and beautiful gem. The led will gradually change the strength of lights because each crystal also embed a photo cell sensing the lights in atmosphere. When you walk into a very dark room, the lights glows very strong; as you walk on the street during the daytime, it looks like a natural shining crystal. The small lights inside of crystal is also strong enough to block people’s eye to see the inside chip and battery.

Only 6mm Li-on battery has 3v, can power the led up to 6 hours. It also comes with a beautiful a solar cell powered dock, which can collect the power at anytime. When you charging you earring, the dock can also generate lights. You can use the dock as a candle also. Instead of ID mark, every crystal also have a RFID chip into it, which have a unique number inside.
Shinerie has a very large collections of shapes for different people. There are lots of different colors also. It looks much cooler in real life.