UUPGs

Last year, I had a chance to learn more about 639 unreached, unengaged people group- population over 100,000 at GKYM, Global Korean Young Adult Mission Festival.  I was shocked by the fact that more than 1 billion people live on less than a dollar a day. These children and families are all too familiar with poverty. It has robbed them of hope and threatens to steal their future.

Christian missionary activities often involve sending individuals and groups (called "missionaries"), to foreign countries and to places in their own homeland. This has frequently involved not only evangelization (in order to expand Christianity through the conversion of new members), but also humanitarian work, especially among the poor and disadvantaged. Missionaries have the authority to preach the Christian faith (and sometimes to administer sacraments), and provide humanitarian work to improve economic development, literacy, education, healthcare and orphanage. Christian doctrines (such as the "Doctrine of Love" professed by many missions) permit the provision of aid without requiring religious conversion. 

I had a chance to talk to one of the learders while I was attending the Missionary Festival.  He told me that media representations are a very good source to raise awareness about this issue among young people.  Ever since that, I was wondering as a interactive designer what kind of things can be contributed for the task to reach the 3,300 Unreached, Unengaged People Groups (UUPGs). 

This leads me to create this project that is relavant to Christian young adults community and can raise awareness about UUPGs and generate focusing on raising the next generation as a missional generation. 

Precedents

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http://finishingthetask.com/

This site provides all UUPGs statistics, however, the site lacks visulization and interactive mapping.

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http://oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade deployed the open source software platform to map the fallout of the deepwater horizon oil spill.

In this project, I want to use open source software platform for the information collected from finishingthetask.com, visualization and interacitve mapping to raise awareness that we can help these people as a missionary  among young Christians. 

I got all the statistic on these group of people from above site.

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iStoryTeller

Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. 

We are all born with the ability to tell stories, to pass on histories, religions, lessons, even recipes and medicines.  Il remember stories my parents told me long after television shows I watched or books I read. In telling stories to child I think parents or adults give them a bit of themselves, they could reveal their own imagination, own dreams. And that to a child is worth so much more than anything else.

The Magic of Story

Something magical happens between an adult and a child when a story is shared: an intimate space is created between the two where the child co-creates the story through her active listening, her reactions, her expressions. When reading a book the focus and attention is on something outside human interaction – both reader and listener are experiencing something other than each other. In storytelling there is eye contact and a bond created through shared imagination. Stories need not be complex, especially for younger children the simplest story can be told over and over.

Personal Stories

In days past, the wisdom, myth and history of a people would be passed down through stories. In much the same way children love to hear stories about their cherished adults as youngsters. Even the most ordinary event can become near lore in the ears, eyes and heart of a child. When I think for a moment about my own childhood, there are lots of  funny or silly or exciting things happened to me. The child will learn a great deal from re-living experience with stortellers.

Everything has a Story

When we look around, stories are everywhere just waiting to be found. There’s a plant in the room – where did it come from, how did it grow, is it native or did its parent plant come from a far away country, and what did it see in that far away place?

There’s a photograph in the room – what is it, a person? And what is the story, who is it, where was it taken, what was happening at the time? Or is it a place or a thing – what, where, when all are great questions for pulling stories from objects or spaces. If parents are in their child’s room creating stories around toys can be great fun.
Stories as Lessons

There is a great power in story. Events of the day can be made sense of in an evening story. Children love to hear stories about themselves or other children. Say for example the child had a difficult day. In the evening someone might tell a story about another child who had a very difficult day with all sorts of troubles and mishaps. The child will see a connection and feel that things happen to everyone and also supported and secure because they know all about such matters and are able to talk about. Likewise telling the child stories where parent and child resolve differences or have great adventures can be very warming and comforting.

The Child as Storyteller

According to researchers, children who’s parents or caregivers tell stories are more able to tell stories themselves, and are more expressive generally of their own feelings, needs and experiences. Stories strengthen imagination, awareness and self esteem as they often put the child in the position of co-creator. Encourage your child to tell their own stories, you will be surprised by what they have to share.

Design Concept

I always wanted to create some kind of interactive design for the education of children and in this project I think developing iPad app storyteller would be great to start with.

Visual DJing

Disc jockeys (DJs) select and play pre-recorded music for many different audiences. However, most professional DJs do much more than just playing music. They are also responsible for mixing tunes, forming beats and creating the right ambience for the audience with their music choice, whether playing in a club, at a private function or on the radio.

I thought it would be great if the DJs can create some kind of visual art while they are doing sound performance, since the visual art can also create ambience for the audiene. 

Precedents

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The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science--the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world. Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes. . .What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material--with him rhyming!" Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes.

American DJ Galaxian 3D

American DJ has taken the popular Galaxian effect to a whole new dimension of excitement! The exciting Galaxian 3D features green beams that rotate back and forth creating amazing aerial effects on a ceiling or projected onto a crowd.

DJ and lighting at Guitar center: Big lighting installments are moving like equializer by the sound create by DJ, which could be any users

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Prototype sketch

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sena.pdf (6.13 MB)
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My first goal is to have a simple images that detect the finger motion by the camera in my computer.

Current Hardware:
Camera in Macbook pro
Processing as a coding program

Current thoughts are to use a camera that is built in my macbook pro and processing as a coding program.

I have not figured out the "something"  big piece.

Visual Equalizer

As one of iPhone Users, I have always wondered why it doesn't have a graphic equalizer. It has some preset equalization curves, and the iPod has those same settings.

Available equalizer apps (do not have visual representation of the effects)

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Visual Equalizer Flash CMS Template

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An amazing Flash CMS design greatly works for musical groups and artists websites, Radio Station website, music portals, music download sites, as well as for design studios, advertising agencies, any organizations and companies, or just for personal pages creation. The Home page opens with a stunning visual equalizer sprightly moving in time with the pleasant music. The default color can be easily customized.

 

Click here to download:
iEQ.pdf (3.3 MB)
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I thought it would be good to create an application, which users can use equalizer presets to change iPone/iPod sound to suit a particular music genre and style.

[A visual equalizer with colored bars, a play / stop button for your users, to turn the music and the equalizer on and off]

Through Visual Equalizer, user can customize the quality of sound that can soothe their ears and brain.

Users can get information about how to set up/customize equalizer that is just right for them more intuitiely with delicate "graphic and animation."

Textin motion

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Fonts and their appilcation can help create mood and marry the words they carry to the temes the words are discussing.  An Arabic font for instance creates a very different fell to a typewriter-style such as Courier New.  Like Motion Graphics that achieve stunning results for good design, I think fonts that we use in texting message   doesn’t need to be static or fixed: it can float, jump, fly, dance around and transform in different forms. 

In this project, I want to create an application that can create a texting font that is freely move, so users can experience more fun and enjoy the visual impact.

 

 

iLuvmaDog

As one of owner of a dog, I always felt that owning a dog is not just a privilege-it's a responsibility.

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Among companion animals, dogs are unmatched in their devotion, loyalty and friendship to humankind. Anyone who has ever loved a dog can attest to its hundred-fold return. The excitement your dog shows when you come home, the wagging tail at the sound of the leash being taken from its hook, the delight in the tossing of a tennis ball, and the head nestled in your lap-those are only some of the rewards of being a dog owner.

My interest of caring a dog as an owner makes me to come up with idea to create an interactive design which can help dog owners raise happy, healthy dog.

Design Concept

. Interactive Design + Dog's Health (tips for raising) + Social network btw owners of dogs

=  iPhone application + Dog's Health tracker and record + Social Network for Dog Lovers

Precedents

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This app gives you useful tips to help your dogs when they are ill, and how to keep them away from trouble.


--- Add to your favorite tips
--- Search tips you need
--- SMS, share with your friends

Preventative Healthcare IPhone app

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Click here to download:
dog1.pdf (5.76 MB)
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Mood Flow

Good music has direct access to the emotions.  As such it's a fantastic tool for tweaking our moods. Many researchers investigated the ways people use music to control and improve their mood. Music can be entertaining, bring back memories, trigger strong feelings, distract, and comfort. Music creates moods because it betrays your brain and you can use this little trick in your favor. Apply music for your mood, in order to promote or change it.

 Entertainment - At the most fundamental level music provides stimulation. It lifts the mood before going out, it passes the time while doing the washing up, it accompanies travelling, reading and surfing the web. 

Revival - Music revitalises in the morning and calms in the evening. 

Strong sensation - Music can provide deep, thrilling emotional experiences, particularly while performing. 

Diversion - Music distracts the mind from unpleasant thoughts which can easily fill the silence. 

Discharge - Music matching deep moods can release emotions: purging and cleansing. 

Mental work - Music encourages daydreaming, sliding into old memories, exploring the past. 

Solace - Shared emotion, shared experience, a connection to someone lost

This project reflects my interest in music, interactive design and people's emotional state. My interest is to create a project that controls and improve mood with music, through a mobile app since I believe music can accomplish tweaking our moods.   

Precedents

Aupeo

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http://www.aupeo.com/

As you can probably guess by the screenshot, you can also play music you like by entering an artist you enjoy listening to. The stations are grouped by genre and are compiled by AUPEO!’s music experts. Within personal you can play your personal station, which is based on whatever you have previously listened to and requires that you sign up with AUPEO.

Stereo mood

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Stereomood works on many different levels. You can use the inconspicuous search bar at the top and select music for your mood or activity. From the resulting playlist you can either play single songs or the entire list.

Meemix

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MeeMix plays music you like. So it basically works like Last.fm or Pandora. You start a station by entering a song or artist, then you rate whatever MeeMix plays to you, and it will further refine its suggestions.

In addition to playing what you like, you can also push some sliders in the Mood Control on the bottom left to finetune the algorithm that picks the next song for you and plays music for your mood.

 

This project will create not only an audible, but also a visual experience. Getty Images will be combined a clever interface with fantastic background pictures and animations.

You can select one of eight presets, including inspire, excite, refresh, intensify, simplify, or stabilize. You can also manually push the sliders to define your mood in various terms on your iphone app.

A little drag is that Moodflow doesn’t play entire tunes, but only short snippets. However, you can add whatever you like to your Moodboard from your music that is stored on your iphone, save any combination of image/sound snippets, and play your board over and over again later.

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Click here to download:
moodflow.pdf (1.3 MB)
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I need to develop actual program for the next step.

Any comments, suggestions, complaints?