Day 1- Project Proposal

Lasalle College Of The Arts (Faculty of Media Arts)

Project Proposal

Name: Tan Mui Lyn Nadia

Stud ID: 8989

Class: IA4A

Emotive Lamps

Lighting affects a person more than any other design detail in your home. The choice of lighting fixtures, light bulbs, and color of light makes a difference to one's emotional and physical comfort. Lighting is both an art and a science. Thus, I decided to create an emotional machine that produces emotions when in contact.

In this project, a lamp will be created. To switch it on, the user has to input his/her voice through a microphone. The machine will recognize and analyze the tone of the voice depending on the pitch/amplitude that is input into the system. The machine’s emotion will be its “unhappiness” by reacting to the tone of the voice input. For an example, a high amplitude sound may mean you are shouting at it, thus, it lights up a hot LED color in its process like the color Red.

It acts as a robot, but is programmed in a way that shows an unhappy emotion when being rude to.

Objective

The objective of my project is to allow people to recognise the emotions that can be triggered in machines in various ways. It is also to show how these emotions can be potrayed in lights as well as sound.