Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Day Four - Digital Producers Lab

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Cat John showing the group some of the forms of offline commuications that the Watershed use.

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Lincoln Green

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…

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Everyday Things

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

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Creative Mornings Talk on Play October 25

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…

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The Fingometer

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…

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Uncommon Coding Theory and the Phenomenological Bump

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.

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Science Showoff 21st Nov

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

IdeoBird will be making an appearence at Science Showoff.

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OuijaBird Sings

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

The first protopype of OuijaBird was built this week...OuijaBird - the canary in the mind.An ethereal and elusive creature, you will know her by her song. She detects your Ideomotor Quotient (ImQ), reads your personality, and tells your fortune.OuijaBird can be contacted by one person but she will…