the body and the brain as controller

Talk to Digital Culture students ���@University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

15 April 2013���

erik champion

http://erikchampion.wordpress.com nzerik@gmail.com

Civilization comprises the laws that allow people to live close together, in a city, civitas. ���

���Culture is what is cultivated or allows one to

cultivate a setting, a local domain.

Osvald Spengler

virtual heritage

•  …the use of computer-based interactive technologies to record, preserve, or recreate artefacts, sites and actors of historic, artistic, religious, of cultural significance and to deliver the results openly to a global audience in such a way as to provide formative educational experiences through electronic manipulations of time and space."

•  Stone, Robert, and Takeo Ojika. 2000. Virtual heritage: what next? Multimedia, IEEE no. 7 (2):73-74. "

Virtual meetings no more interesting than real ones so why recreate mundality?

Non digital-interactivity sometimes better than the digital

Goodbye body

•  Spengler wrote “This machine technics will end with the Faustian civilization and one day will lie in fragments, forgotten -- our railways and steamships as dead as the Roman roads and the Chinese wall, our giant cities and skyscrapers in ruins like old Memphis and Babylon.”

scale is also important

the brain

•  space and memory are inextricably linked

• memory is more a jigsaw than filing cabinet

• memory decay can be challenged

•  games help multi-tasking

•  biofeedback can help evaluation

Humans See Tools Differently Than Other Primates

Caption: The flow of object information in a monkey brain (left) and a human brain. Credit: Sabine Kastner, Princeton University

•  Computers don’t have flashes of insight. But the human brain can..for gamifying RNA.

• One proposal they kicked around was to have snippets of RNA fight each other to the death, in the style of a Japanese combat game called Senshuken; another was to create a first-person experience in which players navigated the world as RNA molecules of their own design.

RNA Game (Wired magazine) “EteRNA”

use lego to discover?

http://publicvr.org/html/pro_oracle.html

media architecture biennale���http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/biennale-2012-workshops/���

or http://moritzbehrens.com/2013/mab12/ ���15 November 2012, Aarhus

prototyping for ownership Klaus Birk Roman Grasy"

sketchy sketches

Xbox Kinect+Projector+VVV ���and Crazy dancers..

dance projection

• imagine... •  public squares

•  flashmob dance mixes

•  crowdsourcing VJs

machinima tools

MOODLE-unity

kinect, jibe, drawing interfaces

peripheral projection

warped screen���peripheral fear

our peripheral vision is not colour, it reacts to movement

how to best utilize this?

biofeedback

biofeedback

Skyrim + body

Skyrim game can host virtual recreations (of Nordic stories or any other), the player can control the avatar, and issue voice commands recognised by the game). Inhabitants can be easily reprogrammed to share stories. Trading, praying, conversing healing etc are possible, not just violence.!

Oblivion Eric Fassbender PhD thesis project, scripted tour guide of lighthouse, Macquarie University!

mixed reality Second Life and VR tracker and googles see Georgia Tech Project!

2006 calligraphic interfaces

University of Queensland: project by year 3 multimedia students, Amy and Isaac, Team AI studios!

Journey to the West

touch screen taoism @Vsmm2012, MILAN

“new media…offers enormous possibilities for the enhancement and enrichment of heritage experience and interpretation” ���

Y. E. Kalay, T. Kvan, & J. Affleck, New Heritage: new media and cultural heritage.

New York: Routledge, 2008.

“Qin” literally refers to a unique seven-string Chinese music instrument “Guqin”, which was invented 3,000 years ago in ancient China."

http://chinablog.cc/2009/10/siyi-four-arts-of-the-chinese-scholar/"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvhKTFzQG8Y"https://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/sound-recordings/qin/index.html"

Daoism is an ancient Chinese combination of religion, philosophy, and folk beliefs, including ritual healing. Its different strands of belief date far back in history. Daoism is deeply entwined with Chinese culture and history."

http://chinablog.cc/2009/10/siyi-four-arts-of-the-chinese-scholar/"

•  to be a scholar or a master is to be an artist, measured by one’s grasp of the “Four Arts”.

•  The “Four Arts” are Music (“Qin”), the board game (“Qi”), calligraphy (“Shu”), and brush painting (“Hua”).

•  Helped “perceive the ultimate doctrine of the heavens”, “make themselves [be] enlightened”, “express their emotions/their understanding of the doctrine”, and “inspire others” so that their lives achieve peace and harmony. "Z. Dainian, Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2002."

youtube links •  Opening http://youtu.be/gFYG4zTn4Js

•  Game Hua http://youtu.be/DiGDezTM8hY

•  Game Qi1 http://youtu.be/jP9nfdUFDTU

•  Game Qi2 http://youtu.be/orCga2CQBjs

•  Game Qin http://youtu.be/iC2BGT5IbDE

•  Game Shu http://youtu.be/dv_TOnl_sbc

•  What are the Five Elements in the traditional Chinese culture?

•  What are the Five Basic Tones in the traditional Chinese music?

•  What are the traditional Chinese philosophical concepts revealed by Go?

•  Which one of the following features is one of the main features of Chinese character writing system? ] Cuneiform / [ ] Alphabet / [ ] Pictography / [ ] Phonology?

•  What are the tools for Chinese traditional painting?

•  Very difficult to recreate original action scenes and moments of discovery as game devices.

•  Chinese players, familiar with a distorted version of the original, not aware their cultural knowledge was not accurate, did not appreciate being told this.

•  Recreating linear narrative via game design is torturous.

•  OR: simulate the procedural knowledge of rituals and symbol-making via thematically-akin interaction..

•  what is needed: more comprehensive pre-test and post-test questionnaire.

•  The general questions are too vague.

•  Consider changing from rating games to ranking them.

•  Test extrapolated knowledge rather than memory of simple facts.

•  Examine how tacit knowledge can be learnt and evaluated.

•  Compare tests between touch-screen and non-touch screen games.

•  A more 3D interface: sculptures, HD projection on rice paper or liquid media, with 3D audio effects and ambient movies projection.

•  Ambient movies react to the player’s physiological changes -by biosensors.

•  Can interactive digital media convey and evaluate tacit knowledge?

crazy ideas

•  Dutch thriller App sends to your phone additional storyline information..

•  why not have biofeedback sent back to the movie..

fps...

•  when your character dies, why not have the death spasms relate to the heartbeat-GSR?

•  or only respawn when you calm down..

•  reactions relate to heartbeat

•  enemies attack peripherally sensing fear

RPGs-chameleon effect

•  when you start shaking you lose your character or change between ethnic profile

•  Cinematic camera views=biofeedback

•  you can only convince NPCs when calm

sew some characters •  http://lilypadarduino.org/

reflective games

Kuthodaw Paya: must walk around Buddhist description of universe-biggest book in the world-

but aesthetic experience being eroded

IF+3D model+body http://www.dreamingmethods.com/