Explorations - White Paper

The Project “White Paper”

The project “White Paper” is a part of the analytical study through implementation and experimentation for my classroom project “graffi-V”

The project is about collaboratively doing graffiti art on a big display by giving voice inputs. Whatever a person speaks, is broken down into different parameters of sound, i.e. frequency, loudness etc, and all these parameters are mapped to the different properties of the text ( which is speech to text converted from whatever the person has spoken ) like colour, font, font size etc. It is a project about sociability where people come together to collaboratively do graffiti on a display screen.

As a part of this project and to understand people’s behavior, I stuck three large white sheets in 3 Computer Laboratories of the campus. And left it with them in their labs for 3 days and allowed them to write their mind on them.



The initial observations are:

For such a thing to take place, the instrument with which they write is a major factor which holds them from writing, i.e. if people don’t have a pen in their hand ( or in the vicinity ) they wont attempt to write even if they have something to write
Very few people take the initiative to be the first ones to write, i.e. the initialization should be done already for people to carry on the chain reaction.
Usual scribbles on the white paper are often answering the one who has written before them.

This makes me think, if graffi-V should be a “one at a time” input system.

I will write down other observations as the days will pass by

Scenario

This is section covers scenarios,you need to understand the concept, in order to understand the scenarios:

I will include scenarios both during ideation and after conceptualization.

Scenarios during ideation are:


This was an intial scenario where what you sing is visualized.





Then came the idea of drawing with sound.

Concept

Project Description

Graffi-V is experiential graffiti for creators and audience. A system enables the creators to create graffiti real time with whatever they are speaking.

Graffiti has been recognized as a powerful yet subtle form of expression. Collaborative Graffiti fulfills participants’ satisfaction on both desires for creation and social interaction. It lets them vent their emotions and also to leave a trail of memory behind.

The graffi-V creators will be able to create forms by merely speaking, and whatever they will be speaking will be displayed on the screen(text and form) according to the way they speak




Environmental Requirements:

• An otherwise silent place, where saying something "aloud" is "allowed"
  
• People
  

System Requirements:

• Microphone
  
• Display Screen
  
• Microsoft speech recognition engine
  

Implementation

• Cascaded style sheets
  
• xml
  
• Visual basic
  
• Flash 8 professional
  

Why Graffi-“V”

Graffi-V, V as Vocal,Visual and V as in We i.e. collaborative
It gives people a sense of connectedness with the environment.



Taking it forward..

It would be very nice if the audience would be able to hear how a particular line was spoken ..

if there is an inverse of this application which converts the patterns and text to voice,it would be great


Scenarios are covered in a later section.

Thought Process

This is a section about the thoughts and the process followed:

Frustration of coding
Intermediate state
Graffiti :a thought
Properties of sound
Voice Recognition
Speech recongition on my system
Action and Reaction

Research

Research- Human Factors in Speech
Research- Types of interfaces
Research - City Space
Graffiti as collaborative art
All about graffiti
Digital sound modelling
Experiments with some properties of sound
Robo responding to voice commands
Voice based Gaming
A Sound frequency dependent blender XP
Voice Input in Windows XP
Interactive Mirror
Wooden Mirror

Brainstorming

What with sound
Three to choose from
Brainstorming Again
Initial Brainstorming

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Research - City Space

A part of the paper about the movie "City Space" which was t a candid documentary exposing the conflicts and contradictions surrounding graffiti in Vancouver

Director: Craig Noble

It is tried to uncover a world where the line between art and vandalism is blurred.creative expression and social responsiblity meet head on in an articulate collage of fact and opinion as subculture and bureaucracy collide.

the paper is worth reading, it changes one's perspective towards art and vandalism..