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jQuery mb.thumbGrid Plugin

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mb.thumbGrid is a jQuery gallery plugin used to display a grid of thumbnails as a slideshow with fancy CSS3 transitions. When you click on a thumbnail, the high resolution image will be displayed in a responsive lightbox that allows you to navigation through images with arrow controls.

1. INCLUDE CSS AND JS FILES

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/thumbGrid.css"/> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="//mb.components.cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/jquery.mb.browser/latest/jquery.mb.browser.min.js"></script> <script src="//mb.components.cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/jquery.mb.CSSAnimate/latest/jquery.mb.CSSAnimate.min.js"></script> <script src="js/jquery.mb.thumbGrid.js"></script>

2. HTML

<div id="thumbGrid" data-thumbgrid="true" data-effect="scaleIn" data-delay="60" data-timing="800" data-pagination="6" data-galleryeffectnext="scaleIn" data-galleryeffectprev="scaleOut"> <img src="img/1.jpg" alt="img04" data-highres="http://38.media.tumblr.com/d23deac40b06633b79520a8552f40b94/tumblr_nb1uhrRrge1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit." /> <img src="img/2.jpg" alt="img02" data-highres="http://33.media.tumblr.com/d59fde7754e24629be674872632e7556/tumblr_nb1udanVmD1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis ornare vel eu leo." /> <img src="img/3.jpg" alt="img01" data-highres="http://33.media.tumblr.com/a9d77a1bb36010a7dc0fd69a41b027c7/tumblr_nb1uw0kE8K1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus." /> <img src="img/4.jpg" alt="img03" data-highres="http://33.media.tumblr.com/71be5cd5728e22354fc9dc389d5ab85b/tumblr_nb1uqjWny11st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit." /> <img src="img/5.jpg" alt="img01" data-highres="http://38.media.tumblr.com/b0599573cbde31e8f8ec2ce4f211bfc1/tumblr_naj3a897XB1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis ornare vel eu leo." /> <img src="img/6.jpg" alt="img04" data-highres="http://31.media.tumblr.com/d77e21ed167c2125627b210b48e23f81/tumblr_na0kw25OtD1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit." /> <img src="img/7.jpg" alt="img05" data-highres="http://33.media.tumblr.com/0de1b93512d7b2b6287c1e4b630212b6/tumblr_n8zlzedP0b1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus." /> <img src="img/8.jpg" alt="img06" data-highres="http://38.media.tumblr.com/2aec5b8337c3f2677080ea93f88a59aa/tumblr_n8zm1wVHz11st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum." /> <img src="img/9.jpg" alt="img05" data-highres="http://38.media.tumblr.com/ef74704fbfda8581ba130c573779f924/tumblr_n8gybzbUB61st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit." /> <img src="img/10.jpg" alt="img05" data-highres="http://33.media.tumblr.com/47d8817227b81bc6cae25e59dc3804d7/tumblr_n8gyvzQtkD1st5lhmo1_1280.jpg" data-caption="Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit." /> </div>

3. JAVASCRIPT

jQuery(function () jQuery("[data-thumbgrid]").thumbGrid(); );

4. EFFECTS

Use the effect

jQuery("#thumbGrid").data("effect", 'fade');

List of effects

video demo from Melody Quintana on Vimeo.

Midterm Project, SVA Interaction Design MFA

Melody Quintana and Sarah Henry

Many people find that bright light therapy helps to improve their symptoms of seasonal mood and sleep disorders. This kind of treatment requires daily time commitment and consistency. The responsive light box seeks to help therapy recipients integrate light box sessions more seamlessly into their lives.

Rather than manually time and track their daily therapy sessions, therapy recipients can receive automatically-timed sessions based on their own customized activity and sleep states. The light box shines full-spectrum white light during the day, and orange light at night to promote the production of natural melatonin to help people sleep better.

Background and goals

Currently when a person uses a light box, he needs to manage his own phototherapy treatment sessions every day. This entails carving out time to sit in front of the light box, figuring out how long the session should last, and remembering to do this the next day. Falling off a treatment schedule or ending treatment before winter is over can quickly bring back symptoms.

Here's what a typical light box looks like. The size, shape and incredible brightness call a great amount of attention to the device, creating the possibility of awkward tension if it's used in a social environment such as a person's office desk.

Our design goals were twofold:

1. Responsiveness 

A light box should learn about who it’s serving and cater to that person’s unique needs. Our goal was to build a light box that senses how much therapy someone needs based on his or her current levels of activity and sleep, and them automatically times each session appropriately. The activity and sleep data come from the recipient's Fitbit – a wristband they wear throughout the day that monitors their step count and sleep habits, among other things. 

To help with energizing during the day or calming at night, we also set out to make our light box time-aware. If it's being used during the day, it provides full-spectrum light and if it's being used at night it provides orange light, which studies have shown helps people sleep better than white light.

2. Attractiveness

Someone who needs light therapy shouldn't have to hide out at home for 30 minutes everyday; the sessions should fit in more seamlessly with their daily routine. To avoid feelings of embarrassment or discomfort, we set out to make our light box function dually as a tool for therapy and a delightful piece of artwork for an office desk. 

Sketches

When discussing how we might construct the piece, we entertained many different ideas. 

Ultimately, we decided to design the box around the experience of sitting at a computer, with the idea that therapy sessions can most efficiently be completed while the recipient checks email, does work or watches TV shows and movies. The box is triangular in shape to encourage the therapy recipient to set it catty-corner to his or her computer, with the light facing his or her eyes.

We also played with several ideas for how to make the box visually appealing. A couple of our original sketches are below. In the end we went with a pretty sweet laser-cut vinyl print over opaque acrylic for a soft, zenny feel.

Wiring

For an in-depth look at how we set up our wiring to work with an A/C outlet, Arduino and breadboard, check out my post on wiring the light box.

Code

To find out how we extracted data from the Fitbit API, sent it to Processing for analysis and then to Arduino, read my post on coding the light box.

Construction

This blog post explains how we built the software that runs a responsive light therapy box I built with Sarah Henry.  To summarize the general framework for our approach, we:

Created a Fitbit API account to access our test user's Fitbit data.

Ported the data over to a Google spreadsheet – we followed this very helpful tutorial to help get over this hurdle.

Created a Processing sketch that called the Google spreadsheet API to extract the subsets of data we needed. Jer Thorpe's tutorials on working with the Google Spreadsheets API and beginning with Processing and data viz were instrumental in this step.

Built out conditionals to break down the dataset and encoded each possible action with a character to tell Arduino what to do. 

Set up serial communication with Arduino, which could then switch on or off the lightbox for an amount of time based on the characters it read from Processing. Here we also added functions that control a small strip of 4 LEDs at the bottom of our lightbox. The LEDs provide a visual indicator of how long the session will last and progress in time. 

Admittedly, we're still programming novices so some of the code here can definitely be cleaned up, but it works as a proof-of-concept! Here's the code.

Processing

import processing.serial.*; Serial port;

int m = month(); int d = day()-1; int y = year (); int h = hour(); int activityScore; int sleepScore;

SimpleSpreadsheetManager sm; void setup() { size(100,100); background(255); //set up serial port //println(Serial.list()); //port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[8], 9600); port = new Serial(this, "/dev/cu.usbmodem1421", 9600); SimpleSpreadsheetManager sm = new SimpleSpreadsheetManager(); sm.init("fitbitData","[email protected]", "melodyandsarah"); sm.fetchSheetByKey("0AovW6Hn1k3yfdE03QlhUdzNvQnQ1R1c2cWlOUVAyYnc", 0);

//variables String yesterday = m + "/" + d + "/" + y; int sleepScore; int timeOfDay; boolean found_day = false;

//find the cell with yesterday's date for (int i=1; i<sm.getNumberOfRows(); i++){ if(sm.getCellValue(0,i).equals(yesterday)){ found_day = true; //get activity and sleep scores activityScore = int(sm.getCellValue(3,i)); println(activityScore); sleepScore = int(sm.getCellValue(12,i)); } }

if (!found_day) { println("ERROR FINDING DAY!!!"); }

//Convert scores to corresponding chars

}

void draw() { //serial communication for time of day if(h<= 18){ port.write('X'); println("X = Day"); } else{port.write('Y'); println("X = Evening"); } //ACTIVITY CONDITIONALS if(activityScore>=1000){ port.write('A'); println("A"); } if(activityScore<=999 && activityScore>=750){ port.write('B'); println("B"); } if(activityScore<=749 && activityScore>=500){ port.write('C'); println("C"); } if(activityScore<=449 && activityScore>=0){ port.write('D'); println("D"); } //SLEEP CONDITIONALS //Good sleep range: 7.5 - 9 hours if(sleepScore>=450 && sleepScore<=540){ port.write('E'); println("E"); } //Fair sleep range: 6.5 - 7.5 hours OR 9 - 10.5 hours if(sleepScore>=390 && sleepScore<=449){ port.write('F'); println("F"); } if(sleepScore>=541 && sleepScore<=630){ port.write('F'); println("F"); } //Not great sleep range: 5 - 6.5 hours OR 10.5 - 11.5 hours if(sleepScore>=300 && sleepScore<=389){ port.write('G'); println("G"); } if(sleepScore>=631 && sleepScore<=690){ port.write('G'); println("G"); } //Bad sleep range: under 5 hours OR over 11.5 hours if(sleepScore<=299){ port.write('H'); println("H"); } if(sleepScore>=691){ port.write('H'); println("H"); } }

Arduino

int led1 = 8; int led2 = 9; int led3 = 10; int led4 = 11; int blueBulb = 12; int orangeBulb = 3;

int incomingByte; int activity; int sleep; int time;

int delayS = 1000; int delayA = 5000; int delayB = 10000; int delayC = 15000; int delayD = 20000; int forever = 3600000;

void setup() { // initialize serial communication: Serial.begin(9600); delay(1000);

// initialize the bulbs as outputs: pinMode(blueBulb, OUTPUT); pinMode(orangeBulb, OUTPUT); }

void loop() { // see if there's incoming serial data: if (Serial.available() > 0) { //add a buffer: delay(100); // read the oldest byte in the serial buffer: incomingByte = Serial.read();

This blog post explains the physical construction of a responsive light therapy box I built with Sarah Henry. Here are the steps we took to create its zenny look and feel:

Planned, measured and cut the main pieces of out medium-density fiberboard (MDF) 

Mitered the joints to bevel them together for a smooth fit

Cut out the frame and the acryllic sheet with a laser printer

Attached the pieces together with wood glue

Secured the wiring to the bottom triangle, making sure that the bottoms of each relay did not make contact with anything conductive 

Sanded the acrylic sheet for a soft, muted feel

Traced a zenny vector image in Adobe Illustrator

Cut out the image out of vinyl with a laser printer

Applied the image to the acrylic sheet

Fit the acrylic sheet inside the frame window