Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
We’ve reached the mid point in the Digital Producers, Lab that we are running in Pervasive Media Studio in collaboration with National Theatre Wales. This morning we heard from John McGrath, Artistic Director of NTW and Dick Penny, Managing Director here at the Watershed.
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
Cat John showing the group some of the forms of offline commuications that the Watershed use.
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
A GPS activated digital harp created by the group.
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
Katherine Jewkes making sure we knew when each session's time was up
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
Took IdeoBird v 0.5 to Lincoln University to show as part of a two-hour lecture on Magic and Experience Design. Did some Ideomotor experiments with the audience then IdeoBird read the mind of a new handler.What is interesting is that the handler felt the IdeoBird get heavier when held of the chosen…
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
My Ideobird research is generating ideas for other magic effects. I’m going to occasionally describe some of these without describing the method I’m exploring. The question is, how would you devise a method for the effect?Everyday Things
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
So I've been invited to give a Creative Mornings Talk on Play - October 25, 8:30am - 10:00am at The Goldsmiths' Centre. London.IdeoBird is looking forward to it but isn't keen on getting up so early. "I'm not a bleeding rooster!" were her exact…
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
I spend some time this week asking people in the studio to hold out their four fingers and to think of one. I then attempted to detect which finger they were thinking of by sensing the ideomotor response. My hit rate is about 90%. I'm planning to construct a Fingometer which will aid the detection…
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
Common coding theory is a cognitive psychology theory describing how perceptual representations (e.g. of things we can see and hear) and motor representations (e.g. of hand actions) are linked. The theory claims that there is a shared representation (a common code) for both perception and action.
Posted on Thu 26 May 2016
IdeoBird will be making an appearence at Science Showoff.
