[Persuasive Design]Week 2 Nudges: Take the stairs

IDEA 1 Follow the LED and take stairs Inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWGgqDKugI

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I found this is interesting - the green light leading the princess to take stairs to the top of the tower. The human eye is naturally attracted to bright lights. The movement of lights can lead people to take stairs. So I think lights probably will be a good trigger. But I don't want to turn this taking stairs experience into some dark experience, like the one in Sleeping Beauty. I want to make it bright and playful. So I chose to use warm color. Here's my design.

I found the lights in the stairs are sound sensitive. When people come, the lights will become brighter. That will also attract people if it's behavior is more engaging.

Then I think that LED is kind of power consuming. One of the reasons we encourage people to take stairs is saving the earth. So it will be better if we only turn on LEDs when there are people near the elevator. We can install a simple infrared sensor to do that.

My design is still depending on people's motivation and ability. People will use the elevator if they are carrying heavy stuff, or they are injured, and don't have the ability to take stairs.

IDEA 2 Take the stairs: save energy and charge your phone.

I did some research. In general, the elevator will use 2.5 Wh Per floor (one direction, 3 meters). That is approximately 1/2 the amount of energy it takes to recharge a cellphone battery. So if we walk up to 4th floor, we can save 10 Wh, and we can use that electricity to recharge our cellphones.

So my design is putting a poster on the wall, and a cellphone charging station near the door. People can swipe their NYU card to charge their phone.

[Live Web]Week 1 Drawinions -- Interactive video

Interactive Selfie I couldn't find good videos about myself, so I used "minions" video.

http://drawinions.herokuapp.com, please use Safari to open the link.

Chrome and Firefox can't play the video for some reason.

Persuasion Design Week 1

An MAT(Fogg’s Motivation, Ability and Trigger model) analysis on PuppyLamp. What is PuppyLamp?

PuppyLamp is a digital interaction designed to work with a physical object. People can use the app to send color and text message to their friends and light up their friends’ Puppy Lamp. It is a new way to express feelings to your friends with colors, lights and environmental ambience.

Here's the physical object, and its mobile and web interface.

MTA Analysis

Motivation: It's a playful experience. People will feel to use it when they have extra time and want to connect to their friends. But it's not "painkiller", it's a "Vitamin" to life. So I would say the motivation is somewhere in the middle.

Ease of use: It's pretty easy to use once you set up the philips hue lamp connected to wifi. Then it only requires user to have the ability to turn on/off lamp switch, go to a website or open an app on their phones.

Trigger: I think it depends on users. Some people might feel it's unnecessary to enrich the texting interaction, which is already very good. Many people think it's nice to have this cute lamp at home, and got their friends' text with colorful lights sometime. This will work particularly for people who have long-distance relationships. Several people told me that they'd love to have one with their girl/boyfriends. One person even suggested that this can be used by people who have hearing difficulty to get text notifications.

Future step to improve motivation and trigger: It's not necessary to add some functions to try to make it a useful product. It's supposed to be a playful experience from the beginning. So I want to make this experience more engaging by redesigning the form of lamp. For now, it's a still puppy, I can make it more responsible to people's input. For example, it will send friends a "hi" when people pat the puppy's head.

Night Forest

The new documentation is here: http://1023.io/night-forest/

Data Art Conceptual Project: inexpensiveData

inexpensiveData is an app that visualizes what personal data will you give away when you get "free" service from an app or a website. For example, Facebook. On one hand, Facebook is a free website where we can hang out with our friends. We get an well designed, efficient, reliable service which allows us to connect, debate, and discuss with millions of people around the world, host and share content, look at other people's photos.

On the other hand, Facebook is a private company, with more than one billion users and also with shareholders demanding profits. Facebook pays for and owns the thousands of servers that host all our content. Then there's all the well-paid and well-qualified engineers, programmers, and software designers that keeps the whole thing going.

"If you’re not paying, you’re the product" and you pay for this with your data. Facebook’s business model depends on allowing companies to target adverts at us, based on the things we share. If we're going to use this "free" services, we need to give our data away.

inexpensiveData is aiming to make this trading more transparent. inexpensiveData seeks to help people gain an understanding of how their personal data being created and collected by these apps and websites.

Facebook/Instagram/Twitter; Google; Gmail; Chase/Venmo; Netflix/Chrome; Yelp/Foursquare; Uber/Lyft; Messages/WhatsApp.

1. people can see all the services

2. people can see all the data from Facebook

3. people can see the Friends data

Inspiration:

1. Your facebook data: https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254

Ads Clicked

Dates, times and titles of ads clicked (limited retention period).

New Facebook data analysis tool shows marketers what their customers are talking about.

Address

Your current address or any past addresses you had on your account.

Credit Cards

If you make purchases on Facebook (ex: in apps) and have given Facebook your credit card number.

Messages

Messages you’ve sent and received on Facebook. Note, if you've deleted a message it won't be included in your download as it has been deleted from your account.

2. Uber can and does track one-night stands.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141118192805/http://blog.uber.com/ridesofglory

A couple of years ago, there was an entry on the company's blog titled "Rides of Glory." The company examined its rider data, sorting it for anyone who took an Uber between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. on a Friday or Saturday night. Then it looked at how many of those same people took another ride about four to six hours later – from at or near the previous nights' drop-off point.

4 Axis Mill Project Proposal

I want to build something that has a contrast of white and black Delrin. http://www.shapeways.com/product/294G463U2/turner-s-cube

https://www.behance.net/gallery/7029821/Duality-Chess-Piece

https://www.etsy.com/listing/205453599/paintable-crates-barrels-gaming-terrain?ref=br_feed_5&br_feed_tlp=home-garden

4-Axis Mill

This week, we moved to 4 Axis Mill. I felt like going back to CNC again. As long as I draw the right shape, get the right setup, I can just sit there and wait for machine to do its job.

Metal Lathe

This week, we used metal lathe, which is very different from wood lathe. With wood lathe, we need to control the material manually. We can feel the material with our chisels. I guess I like wood lathe more. But on the other hand, metal lathe is easier to use, because we only need to spinning wheels. Also I like the final aluminum piece. Its surface is glossy and smooth.

Wood Lathe Part 2

This week, I used 4 jaw chuck to make a wooden apple.

One very useful tip that Gabriel told me is that the base for the 4 jaw chuck should be deeper and round perfectly, so the chuck can hold the material better.

I made a base on the material and then put it in the 4 jaw chuck, and I found the material is not perfectly centered anymore. So I have to round it again.

Understanding Networkings

firewall

Lathe

This week, we used lathe to make a foosball player. I made a Japanese girl. Next time, I will sand it more, so the surface will be smoother and goes better with the pigment. And I will make more changes on the body. Also, it needs time to get better on lathe. I should to check the material is locked perfect on the lathe constantly. I should pay more attention to make the smaller holes in the center of the body. Here's my progress.

I used tape to fixate material on the board, I'm not sure it's a right thing to do, but it helps to keep material from moving.

Drawing on Every Thing Final Proposal

 

From The Science of Mind, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1926]:

"Personality is the result of man's experience. It is the sum total of all that he has said, done, felt, thought, hoped for and believed in; it is the result of his reactions to the events of life as they come and go."

One person's life experiences (life stories) - the childhood he has, the parents he has, the places he has been, the people he spends time with, the emotional attachment he has - have a strong influence on his personality. Through their life stories, we can see who they are.

As time went by, every experience/story will end (childhood goes away, we left our parents, we won't stay at one place forever, so many people come into our life and leave). But every experience left something to us, some thoughts, some lessons, some happy or sad memories. Combining every experience together, we can see who we really are.

So I want to present this idea with real time drawing. I will draw one layer at one time. Each layer may make no sense, and will disappear gradually when I'm drawing it. In the end, I will combine all the layers together. I hope the final piece will have some cool effects or tell the story.

I don't have solid ideas about what to draw or how to put multiple layers together. I found some inspiration online.

https://www.pinterest.com/joannalmann/artwork-multiple-layered/

Hayao miyazaki.

Bildungsroman ( a story of human formation) a coming of age. we want to create a performance about how we grow.

CNC Puppy Lamp

This is a puppy lamp.

For its head, I built four joints and glued them together. At first I want to build the bind joint. But I forget to pocket the finger shape inside, I thought there are just rectangle shape pocket inside. I spent some time to figure out how the four joints can make a perfect square and also I can put the bottom square in it. So after I built the joint, they fit really well, and they are very tight after I glued them together.

And there is another joint connecting the head and its neck. For the body part, I used bolts and nuts to put legs and tail together. I used two bolts on each side. And I drilled a slightly smaller hole on the tail to keep the two bolts stay still inside. Otherwise, they won't be tight enough. Also I got the bulb, socket, and the wire. And I also get the chance to use my Othermill assignment.

This is my first complete fabrication work.  I'm very exited. I learned how to make different joints, and I'm getting more and more familiar with CNC machine each time.

Process

CNC Miter Joint with Butterfly Key

This joint uses a butterfly key to hold the two pieces together. The thickness of the key equals to the thickness of the material. I found that butterfly joint is very tight. Once clamp it together, it's hard to take it apart. One problem is that my material has different thicknesses at different area,  or because my material is not flat, even though I used nail to fixate it on the board. So some shapes were cut very well, but some shapes were not cut out completely. It took me much time to use a knife to pull the shape out of the wooden material. Next time, I will measure the material for several times, and add 0.001'' to the thickness.

Also because the butterfly key has sharp angle but the pocketed area has round corner, the joint doesn't fit very well. There's a thin gap between them, but it's very tight though.

CNC Project Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLScMy45mTs http://www.makecnc.com/the-fairytale-castle.php

http://blog.cncking.com/kids-medieval-castle-new-cnc-laser-project/

CNC Square Puzzle

I wanted to use CNC to make a square puzzle this week. My inspiration is the square puzzle from ShopRobot. The square puzzle has six parts.  Here's the design of every part.

The ideal plywood will be 1'' thick. But I can't find 1 inch plywood in a short time, so I used 0.685''- thick plywood. It can work, but the six parts can not fit perfectly.

In addition, I would tape the material down. Because when CNC almost finished cutting one part, the part was no longer attached to big plywood board and would be lifted by the spinning bit, which could cut the wood which shouldn't be cut. This thing happened to the following part.

The last thing is that I should pay more attention to snap collet into collet nut perfectly. And when I'm using wrenches, the bigger wrench should fit the collet fully before I tighten the bit. Besides these three things, I'm satisfied with the work. It feels so good to making serval parts that can fit into each other.

Traceroute

I "tracerouted" google.com, facebook.com, 1023.io, netflix.com, itp.nyu.edu, tv.sohu.com, and taobao.com in school and at my place. One thing that is worthy to mention is that except google and facebook, when I used terminal to traceroute, they all failed to find routes after 64 routes. But when I use this website to "proxy trace" traceroute(http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert), they all succeeded.

According to this image, Proxy Trace passed yougetsignal.com, but when I traceroute in my laptop terminal, traceroute didn't passyougetsignal.com.  So I suppose that yougetsignal.com may optimize the traceroute method.

When I trace route at school, the routes that show every time are NYU.EDU, yipes.com, 62.216.147.186, telia.net, 198.199.99.241, 107.170.234.253, 198.199.99.253.

(note: TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company has operations in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Asia and Spain, with a total of 182.1 million mobile customers (Q1, 2013).)

When I trace route at home, the network providers that show every time are comcast.net and telia.net.

(note: Comcast Corporation is an American mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world by revenue. It is the largest cable company and homeInternet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

The major tier 1 providers in my life is telia.net.

Note: tier 1 network. The most common definition of a tier 1 network is a network that can reach every other network on the Internet without purchasing IP transit or paying settlements. I found this image in wikipedia.

A tier 2 network is an Internet service provider who engages in the practice of peering with other networks, but who also purchases IP transit to reach some portion of the Internet.

(IP transit: Internet transit is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger Internet.)

(Peering: In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the users of each network. )

The term tier 3 is sometimes also used to describe networks who solely purchase IP transit from other networks (typically tier 2 networks) to reach the Internet.)

The OtherMill

The OtherMill is a is a desktop 3 axis (X, Y, Z) CNC machine. By using a software called OtherPlan, it can extend SVG 2D files into 3D shape. The OtherMill is vert portable, and it can handle many kinds of materials. This week, we were using aluminum to cutout and engrave some shapes. 1. Attaching End Mill

I accidentally brought 1/16 flat mill, which works more slowly but does a very fine job.

2. Homing and Finding Origin(x, y, z)

3. Attaching Material

4. Setting Material Size and Type

5. set up tools

6. import svg.file

7. start cutting

I think it will be good if the Otherplan interface can show the rest of working time. For now, users can only see the speed and other numbers. Although it has a time bar, but it will be even better if it has the precise time.

Understanding Networks reading response

  According to the example in the article "Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works", we can see the fact that the Internet is a system built on trust.

My note:

AS: the Internet is a collection of networks, known as "Autonomous Systems" (AS). Each network has a unique number to identify it known as AS number.

BGP: the networks are connected together by what is known as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is the glue of the Internet — announcing what IP addresses belong to each network and establishing the routes from one AS to another. An Internet "route" is exactly what it sounds like: a path from the IP address on one AS to an IP address on another AS.

BGP Trust model: BGP is largely a trust-based system. Networks trust each other to say which IP addresses and other networks are behind them. When you send a packet or make a request across the network, your ISP connects to its upstream providers or peers and finds the shortest path from your ISP to the destination network.

"Route leakage": the route has "leaked" past normal paths. Unfortunately, if a network starts to send out an announcement of a particular IP address or network behind it, when in fact it is not, if that network is trusted by its upstreams and peers then packets can end up misrouted.

Example: someone at Moratel likely "fat fingered" an Internet route. PCCW, who was Moratel's upstream provider, trusted the routes Moratel was sending to them. And, quickly, the bad routes spread.

Reading response - An Essay in Aesthetics

"Art is an expression and stimulus of our own imaginative lives. The imaginative life of a people life has very different levels at different times, and these levels do not always correspond with the general level of the morality of actual life." I agreed when author said that art is an expression of our imaginative lives, and everyone's imaginative life has different level and it doesn't correspond with actual life. I think that's why children's day-dreams and children's drawing are much more fascinating than adults'. In addition, learning art is a more horizontal thing, cause not like math or physics, you have to fully understand this in order to understand that. But in art, there's not such thing, we can't compare two piece of art. Every style is unique and worthy to be known.