Presentation Screen

I have included a few images here of the pseudo wall that I made as my part of tomorrow.

What I have done this week

This week so far I have sent relevant information to Sandra for the poster.
I measured up the height of coffee table and went into uni and found David who helped measure the monitor for where the holes for the frame and the web cam are needed. We decided that the height of the monitor on the coffee table was sufficient, however a couple of telephone books could be used for the extra height, but the cables of the monitor we measured would allow this added height the need to ensure stablity for the monitor took priority.

Before I cut the holes necessary for the photo frame, I need to make sure that Kathryn has not changed the positioning of the animation. I will take the photo frame and tape measure tomorrow to makes sure we both have a clear understanding of where the animation will be positioned and make sure David who will code will keep it in the same position, or find out exactly where it is going to be.

My shopping list included:
Foamcore
Photo Frame
Hot glue for hot glue gun
Blue tac
Double sided tape
Small easel for group name display

Decisions

We decided at our last group meeting to concentrate on our original breakdown of workload, and leave people to have that area covered.

The jobs for this final week are:
Sandra is doing the poster (and we are sending her relevant information to include, over and above what she has).
David is coding and adding the final animations.
Kathryn is finishing the finer points of the animation.
Petra is building the framework to display our presentation.

Update

This is an update on the progress, or lack of over the past weeks. There are limitations with our chosen technology and we have been trying to overcome these problems. Our initial trials allowed us to activate our Director projector using left mouse clicks which were interpreted by our interactive animation (scripted into the program). The technologies appeared to be interacting with each other.

David told us that the hotkeys on the underpinning technology was not being activated by Flash. As I did not understand this comment, I have spent time trying different scripts in Director as I do not know Flash. Hotkeys were added to the original trials for interactivity, these worked with manual key presses but would not be interpretted by Director as a hot key, the same result as Flash that David tried!! (At least now I understood Davids comments)

So at the end of the day we have limited functionality between the two programs:
-run program (allows us to activate our program)
-left mouse clicks (per motion detection with in a zone)

Functionality that could be superimposed, but not actually be working between the programs:
- Hotkey functionality (keyboard imput or sensor pads)
- Sound output (from motion detection program)

Ideas that were discussed:
-using 2 monitors (this could be intergrated, but the idea was discarded)