This blog provides a forum for students, instructors and others to share information and ideas about the Spring Thesis Program at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.
I think this is really cool, and it got many people to take the stairs instead of the escalator, but I wonder how long the affect will last until they get bored of it? Will they have to keep changing the sound? I'm curious. Is the problem that people are becoming obese? Maybe there should be more escalators with one "lane" so that people who really need it (disabled, elderly, etc) use it, and thus, the abled would become too impatient to take it... or would that create too much traffic?
I really like this too. Not so much for the purpose of consciousness raising about physical fitness, but because it is an engaging and amusing, apparently highly durable public interface that invite people to participate in an ad hoc group activity with strangers on the way to work. I want the whole environment to be a minefield of multi-sensory interactivity. I especially endorse activities that encourage whole body movement and musical or rhythmic action. There would be an interesting thesis project to create a product that permitted groups or individuals to build musical interfaces like the piano stair, but with other kinds of sounds, patterns, switch types, technology, installation details, materials, scale, etc. steven
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I watched the clip.I liked it very much. I also liked the world's deepest bin one. They are smart in a fun way. it was a good motivation. Thanks
I think this is really cool, and it got many people to take the stairs instead of the escalator, but I wonder how long the affect will last until they get bored of it? Will they have to keep changing the sound? I'm curious. Is the problem that people are becoming obese? Maybe there should be more escalators with one "lane" so that people who really need it (disabled, elderly, etc) use it, and thus, the abled would become too impatient to take it... or would that create too much traffic?
I really like this too. Not so much for the purpose of consciousness raising about physical fitness, but because it is an engaging and amusing, apparently highly durable public interface that invite people to participate in an ad hoc group activity with strangers on the way to work. I want the whole environment to be a minefield of multi-sensory interactivity. I especially endorse activities that encourage whole body movement and musical or rhythmic action. There would be an interesting thesis project to create a product that permitted groups or individuals to build musical interfaces like the piano stair, but with other kinds of sounds, patterns, switch types, technology, installation details, materials, scale, etc.
steven
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