Basics of the Project

We want to use the dome area to show off our project so the user can get the full experience in 4-D. We are going to super impose the video that controls the emotions onto the animation of blood cells flowing around the body, I think this will be an excellent effect as you can see what is going on in your body at the same time as your emotions being shown on the screen. 

This will be a scientific experiment as well to show how desensitised as a society we are, so even though the scary videos are popping up, the user might not be scared or shocked. But we can't determine how desensitised we all are with only one test subject, so there would have to be multiple test subjects, or different gender, race, age and ethnicity. So we could also determine what type of people has the least sensitivity when it comes to shocking material.

What will be attached to you- 

On one end you have a very sensitive piezo sensor which will be attached just below your heart, where it will be able to pick up your heart beat better. And on the other side you have a standard jack cable which will be plugged into a microphone port on your laptop or PC. This will transfer the sound of your heart through the laptop to the program me and Iain have modified that will change the animation due to your heartbeat as well as playing the sound of your heart through minim. 

Equipment -

• A piezo pickup
• A mic cable
• A jack cable
• A piece of foam (so it doesn't vibrate)

This is an example of where the pickup will sit on  your chest so it can pick up the heart beat. Natalie is using various clips from Youtube to provoke calmness, happiness, fear, shock and horror. Look to her blog for her part of the project. 

As I mentioned earlier we are going to see this as an experiment more than just a project, as we have no idea how people will react to this and we won't know the results until the end. This might be a success for one user, but a failure for another user. We will have to wait and see in the final experiment.