Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group http://lab.rockwellgroup.com Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group Web Site. Tue, 25 May 2010 14:16:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en TSPS Hopscotch at Eyebeam http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/tsps-hopscotch-at-eyebeam.html http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/tsps-hopscotch-at-eyebeam.html#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 13:56:20 +0000 admin http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/?p=835

We created an augmented game of hopscotch at Eyebeam in New York to celebrate the launch of our TSPS software and the press announcement of our Plug-In-Play installation at the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

TSPS is an opensource Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces developed in openFrameworks. In this installation, we used it to track people from an overhead camera, and then transmit their locations to a LAB-created hopscotch app (the projected imagery). Read more and download the beta at openTSPS.com.

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Located at the center of the Marketplace, the cable system and ring are visible from all three concourses, creating a dynamic focal point. The Lab at Rockwell Group has begun a multi-phase process to create a dynamic system for displaying content on the ring. The ring itself consists of stainless steel cables supporting an information yoke, an egg-shaped aluminum ring with 43 40” LED screens positioned in series to form a ring. This is documentation of the first phase of custom software the lab has developed for the ring. We are developing the ring both visually and technically.







Visually we have created software to animate particles derived from JetBlue tailfin designs which flock and circle the ring, celebrating flight and movement. Technically we have created a series of controlling scripts to update the content as well as a flexible system to update the messaging and video content. We used a combination of Processing, custom After Effects Scripting, and Openframeworks to complete the project.







]]> http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/work/jetblue-ring.html/feed Food, Color, Design, and light… http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/food-color-design-and-light.html http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/food-color-design-and-light.html#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:04:37 +0000 admin http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/food-color-design-and-light.html Food, Color, Design, and light! http://www.tasteologie.org/cmykVideo.html We presented Cyan.#cmykcocktail #fieldtrip

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The Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces (TSPS) works by extending the energy of a person, through face, body and other assigned detection technology and revealing a visual interpretation of that person through software.

Download TSPS and example projects at openTSPS.com

TSPS was developed in Openframeworks for use in design, prototyping, and installed systems.


The basic structure is a server client model with the server sending OSC, TUIO, or TCP info to a client which could be in oF, Processing, Flash, PD, Max, etc. (anything that can listen to OSC). We plan on using this for retail, fine arts installations, rapid prototyping, educational workshops, and providing the source openly for use in production. It builds on the backs of giants and our hope is that we can contribute ways to make it easier for beginners to explore computer vision while also providing a framework for experts to build off of. Part of our goal is to provide quality over quantity of options in terms of the data sent out.


TSPS was started as a collaboration between the LAB at Rockwell Group and the LABS at IDEO. It began as an initiative between Dave Vondle (IDEO) and Joshua Walton (LAB at Rockwell Group) with many of the key components generated through the hard work of James Tichenor, Brett Renfer, and James George who in turn also used components from the openframeworks community, who in turn built upon many open source projects.

Special thanks to the teams that develop Openframeworks, OpenCV, and the many individuals who are all working on creating better computer vision systems.

]]> http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/work/toolkit-for-sensing-people-in-spaces.html/feed Check out our beta Toolkit for… http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-our-beta-toolkit-for.html http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-our-beta-toolkit-for.html#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:00:15 +0000 admin http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-our-beta-toolkit-for.html Check out our beta Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces http://www.opentsps.com/

]]> http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-our-beta-toolkit-for.html/feed Check out the Apple tablet Tuc… http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-the-apple-tablet-tuc.html http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-the-apple-tablet-tuc.html#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:26 +0000 admin http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-the-apple-tablet-tuc.html Check out the Apple tablet Tucker worked on.. http://bit.ly/dDqAiB #oldnewmedia

]]> http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/check-out-the-apple-tablet-tuc.html/feed The admissions process is open… http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/the-admissions-process-is-open.html http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/the-admissions-process-is-open.html#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:06:00 +0000 admin http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/the-admissions-process-is-open.html The admissions process is open for next year at CIID. http://ciid.dk/education/admissions/ You should go!

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The LAB created a series of projections for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s “Whitney Shows Off” event. Each of the projections were an interactive kaleidoscope driven by cameras throughout the space. Images of patrons were refracted into a generative, ever-changing kaleidoscopic pattern.

Upstairs, we transformed the reception desk into a large projection visible from the street. Downstairs, we created two different interactive kaleidoscopes. For the first, we made a small tube-shaped table that refracted objects placed upon it into the projected pattern. In the second location, we placed cameras in the space, turning the kaleidoscope inside out and transforming images of the guests into the kaleidoscope.

]]> http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/work/whitney-shows-off.html/feed At #CIID in Copenhagen. Such a… http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/at-ciid-in-copenhagen-such-a.html http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/at-ciid-in-copenhagen-such-a.html#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:52:45 +0000 admin http://lab.rockwellgroup.com/blog/at-ciid-in-copenhagen-such-a.html At #CIID in Copenhagen. Such a great place makes jetlag easier to manage. http://yfrog.com/9h973xj

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