Presence project

After helping out Stig Skjelvik on his Dobpler™ project, I really wanted to work on something analouge and sensorbased up against an answer to Peter Cook´s article on how low the actual activity level at AHO is. I mean, come on, it´s the place I´m spending five years studiyng my future at... We all agreed on coming up with and present our individual ideas over the weekend. This resulted in 3 main directions. The one We ended up with tracks the activity level and uses these data to generate trees over a period of two weeks. During this period the graphichal result changes colours, from red to yellow. As the project started out we tried to get a hold of the data produced by the access-card system at school. The fist response on this from AHO´s managment was positive, then turned out to be quite negative. So we ended up with two actual and active IR-sensors at the main entrance, functioning as a counter for the processingfile wich produces the trees in the sensors surroundings. To this we added four dummy sensors, witch are placed around at the ground floor in central doorways. These sensors where given a personality by how they look, and by speaking an abstract phrase when someone passes. The fact that these sensors are placed out of sight from the actual visual result gives the users the impression that they are in fact hooked up to the system.
The result can be viewed here.