Interaction Design

The Concept of this App is based on searching the next bio farm in your region. It should include the most of the farmers, that have to register to the app to be available for customers. They also get a kind of packaging for their products and stickers with the right kind of food. So they put for example the chicken on their egg boxes. These stickers can be scanned by the customer after he has buyed his bio food. There should be seen an animation then, where the animal suddenly grins or the fruits or vegetables get a more organic form a bit. Then a text encourages the customer to buy more healthier food again. He also cann collect the „coins“ and get for example merchandising articles.

Try this Prototype on your mobile phone: https://invis.io/G37L2A5Y4#/165275241_Inbox

User Testing:

This should be developed further next semester...

The main page...

and when you want to find the farmers with bio meat...

I now decided that I will make an app that finds all farmers in your neighbourhood, that offer their bio meat for sale. That means that there is no extra bio label for that, but just the app and a website. The website/app is in general for finding farmers near to you, that offer bio meat and other food from animals. You can enter your postcode in a field and it shows you automatically the nearest ones. Then with a filter you can choose more exactly what you want. You can choose animals from farms, wild animals, eggs or milk. Fresh meat, sausages, salami, smoked meat,..

(As an alternative or extension there could be a second app that only includes bio products from plants or vegetables).

AR could still be involved in this project: when each farmer gets stickers with icons on it, that they put on their meat that is evacuated. The farmers get the stickers when they are part of this kind of this bio club. When they are part of this bio club they get in the app, so that the people can find them when they are searching bio meat. All members also get this stickers for their meat. There shall be an icon on it which animal it is and the sticker can be scanned by the app. Then the consumer can see a short video: thank you for buying this... and you are supporting species-appropriate husbandry... appreciate that meat... also look in our app about the nutrition level you have gained...

For my bio meat project i plan to create a dynamic identity. The logo shall consist of different animal heads. Like in the project of this...:

For combining my bio meat label with an augmented reality app I searched for similar projects:

https://vimeo.com/89242250

So my inspiration for my own packaging design project is consisting of this last posts and this one...

My research continued and I found lots of existing packaging designs for meat. Here are a few I like the most:

Here I liked, that you know at first sight what animal is in the packaging. I also like the brown paper, which makes the packaging look more natural.

Furthermore I found this...

Also with brown paper and additionally you know which part of the animal is being sold here.

I also liked this one...

...because its just visualizing the skin structure of the animal.

And last but not least...

For my Bio Meat Label i first did some research to find out which apps are already existing in this context and what these are able to do. Bio123 The first app I found was Bio123. http://www.bio123.de/unsere-apps-fuer-iphone-und-android This app shows you bio supermarkets and other shops near to you.  Furthermore it is searching for food on sale and also gives new information about the topic and tipps. It has detailed information about the merchants and also shows the location on a map.

fTrace With this App you can read the code on a packaging and get information about the meat. Here you are getting data about the date when the animal was slaughtered, the date when it was putted in the packaging, the location where it was produced and the location where the animals came from. The name of the farmer cannot be stated because of data privacy.

Foodtracker This app uses the EWG fleet number that every product of meat or milk has to show on its packaging. So this app searches then the factory, firm, etc.

About the text on: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-gltch-app-is-trivializing-the-art-of-digital-glitch?trk_source=recommended

GLTCH is a new app for iPhone. With this app you can change your gifs on your phone in glitchy images. And all this with just one finger tap.The author of this text criticizes this app as “too easy to use” so that the users might think that glitch art is so easy. In fact glitchy images are not that easy to create. You can dive into that topic even more and experiment a lot. Its actually not just a filter you can put on your image. But the methods and motivation of glitch art are often not understood. 

About the PDF on: http://www.linkartcenter.eu/public/editions/AAVV_Holy_Fire_Link_Editions_2011.pdf

“Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age” is also an online exhibition as “Born Digital”. In this PDF are also shown different artists or design studios that are presenting their works.

Boredomresearch

Boredomresearch is a digital design studio founded by Paul Smith and Vicky Isley. Most of the works are dealing with Computer Animation and Computer Art. They are also often rebuilding nature with digital effects. So they show how the natural systems work, but let their works be influenced by game dynamics, social systems and building environments.

“Ornamental Bug Garden”

This is a work by Boredomresearch. In this work there is a whole ecosystem trying to be recreated. The artists therefore use algorithms that are made by us.

Look at photos about the work “Ornamental bug Garden” on: https://www.flickr.com/photos/boredomresearch/sets/72157627084472448/show/?rb=1

One interpretation of the work is on their website:

http://www.boredomresearch.net/obg.html

Thoughts about the text on: http://www.linkartcenter.eu/public/editions/Curt_Cloninger_One_Per_Year_2014_ebook.pdf

Curt Cloninger is an author who has written a lot about topics dealing with new media and internet art, installation and performance art, experimental graphic design, popular music, network culture, and continental philosophy. 

Something about the text on:

http://www.linkartcenter.eu/public/editions/Linkartcenter_BORN%20DIGITAL_catalogue_2014_singlepage.pdf

Born Digital is a benefit auction and an online exhibition. Furthermore the online auction house (Paddle8) partners with non-profit organizations to present their benefit auctions online.

In this online PDF Rosa Menkman is also an artist, that is provided by Born Digital. Her works “Vernacular of File Formats 2010-2011” and “The Collapse of PAL” are part of the exhibition. 

The “Vernacular of File Formats” is a series of self portraits with a glitchy style. They look corrupted and a bit horrifying. The artist implements an error into the images. She distorted the image files, but choosing another compression language.

In “The Collapse of PAL”, the Angel of History thinks about the PAL signal. It recognizes that this kind of signal is dying out. But it is also described that it still exists because there is always a trace of it in the new media. It is an historical form that newer technologies use to build upon it. So the new DVB signal that now is used instead of PAL is also inherent to PAL. 

Summary of the text on: http://loriemerson.net/2014/10/01/glitch-aesthetics/

First of all the word ‘Glitch’ is explained. The meaning changed with the time. For me, the visual aspects are more interesting. So in the 1960s the word was used to describe any kind of interference in a television picture. I imagine the typical tv error display.

In the 1990s it also was used to describe a style of electronic music. This glitchy audio style was a reaction against clean, noise-free sound that was popular int hat time. But the term is not only used by musicians, but has also spread to gamers, artists, and designers. Now, glitch aesthetics are formed out of experimentation. It is tried to provoke computer errors to get the look. The term viral aesthetics is also used, because it looks like a virus has taken the computer.

The Blogger described the artistic epoche Dada also as glitchy.  It is described that the confused array of words also look like an error. For me i have still a digital imagination when i hear “glitchy images”.

However, the provoked or unprovoked glitch, that actually shows an error in the computer system, makes it visible, that all consists out of data. Those pictures, we have send to audacity and back, for instance, were first displaying reality, but then through destroying the code, we came out of the illusion and realize that this real looking image is not more than code in a computer. 

Summary of the video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBV14-3LT-g&feature=youtu.be

Simplifying Code with Processing by Daniel Shiffman

In Processing you don’t have to know everything about coding. Furthermore you are learning by doing and experimenting. So it’s not only for programmers but also for designers who want to create something visual by using an algorithm and giving something a digital look. Processing can be used to put visuals on a display or furthermore video walls, but also to create a code for a 3D printer. Also data visualizations, done with processing, are popular. 

And the best is: Processing is open sourced.

Professional Coding with Cinder with Keith Butters

Cinder is a library of Code, written in C++. This is also a type of programming that is good for designers and creative people. Its used for small scaled project as well as for big scaled ones. Nike, for instance, realized a project with Cinder.

Cinder is also open sourced.

Open Frameworks Community & RGBD Toolkit with Jonathan Minard and James George

Open Frameworks also uses libraries. It was developed out of a video background and so is ideal for projects that use the kinect combining it with a traditional DSLR camera for creating impressive visual illusions. A new kind of cinema has been created that uses three dimensions. The visualizations can represent us, living in digital world. Our bodies can be recreated as avatars, that have a digital look.

A reflexion about the video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBV14-3LT-g&feature=youtu.be

Creative Coding gives a cool variety to analogue experimenting but also extends your pool of ideas in a completely other way. It’s quite impressive what an algorithm is able to look. Especially when some artists are trying to recreate our world as real as possible, there are cool effects that could be done via processing for example. Processing is also be used for programming a 3D printer, for instance.  This world of printing also makes a lot of things accessible. There even were more experiments, that were trying out to print clothing out of plastic and came to cool results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdRswasftfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s94mIhCyt4

All those clothing has an own look, visualizing algorithm and data i think.

This also makes visible that computers not only change media but our whole way of life and even our thoughts. We save problems in a different way than we did fifty years ago.  Also Lev Manovich deals with this kind of topic. In his book “The Language of New Media” he sets five principles, that new media defines in contrast to older media. 

1. Numerical Representation (all is existing out of code)

2. Modularity (new media have a fractal structure)

3. Automation (operations to create media can be made automatically, for example photoshop filters)

4. Variability (all can be produced, depending on its demand)