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Julia N. Petrich in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

Apr 6, 2016

4/5: Defining Inputs, Outputs, and Interactions

After exploring and brainstorming myriad ways users might interact with Octavia, we began to hone in on specific concept based on personas of the garden users.

catherine oldershaw in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

May 2, 2016

Creating a Prototype

When designing the physical computing components, we wanted to demonstrate that we could create working system using…

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Rhythm in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

May 18, 2016

Audio for the rotary phone

We started working towards reading the rotary phone input and playing the corresponding audio.

Julia N. Petrich in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

Apr 4, 2016

3/30: Developing a Scenario

We decided to move ahead with our idea to make Octavia a sort of nexus for communication in the garden. In this meeting, we honed in on one part of our scenario of use for our installation in the Octopus Garden. Imagining this communication as happening in two different mediums…

Jiaqi Wu in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

May 1, 2016

Website prototype process

We initially had a lot of thoughts about what we should include in this virtual platform since it has so many possibilities in its very own nature. After a few brainstorming sessions we finally settled down on the idea that the website would be an online repository of the messages…

Julia N. Petrich in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

Apr 1, 2016

3/23: Initial Brainstorming Session

For this project, we are considering ways to improve Octavia, the octopus art piece and central…

Helen Hong in Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

May 2, 2016

Octopus Garden Light Prototype

As a group, we decided on installing lights on Octavia’s leg as a feedback & affordance for people interact with the physical design components. Our general idea was to have people see lights going in & out to indicate the exchange/transport of interaction.

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Octopus Garden Prototyping Project

Working on a message transmission project as an installation within the Octopus Garden, a community garden in the Bloomfield/Garfield/Friendship area of Pittsburgh.

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