44 research outputs found
#Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie
While many still consider interactive movies an unrealistic idea, current delivery platforms like Netflix, commercial VR, and the proliferation of wearable sensors mean that adaptive and responsive entertainment experiences are an immediate reality. Our prior work demonstrated a brain-responsive movie that showed different views of scenes depending on levels of attention and meditation produced by a commercialised home-entertainment brain sensor. Based on lessons learned, this demonstration exhibits the new interactions designed for our new brain-controlled movie, The MOMENT, being released in 2018
#Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction
This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and meditation, as recorded by a commercially available EEG device, affected which footage participants saw. As a performance-led piece of research in the wild, this experience, named #Scanners, was presented at a week long national exhibition in the UK. We examined the experiences of 35 viewers, and found that these forms of partially-involuntary control created engaging and enjoyable, but sometimes distracting, experiences. We translate our findings into a two-dimensional design space between the extent of voluntary control that a physiological measure can provide against the level of conscious awareness that the user has of that control. This highlights that novel design opportunities exist when deviating from these two-dimensions - when giving up conscious control and when abstracting the affect of control. Reflection on of how viewers negotiated this space during an experience reveals novel design tactics
#Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction
This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and meditation, as recorded by a commercially available EEG device, affected which footage participants saw. As a performance-led piece of research in the wild, this experience, named #Scanners, was presented at a week long national exhibition in the UK. We examined the experiences of 35 viewers, and found that these forms of partially-involuntary control created engaging and enjoyable, but sometimes distracting, experiences. We translate our findings into a two-dimensional design space between the extent of voluntary control that a physiological measure can provide against the level of conscious awareness that the user has of that control. This highlights that novel design opportunities exist when deviating from these two-dimensions - when giving up conscious control and when abstracting the affect of control. Reflection on of how viewers negotiated this space during an experience reveals novel design tactics
Infrared Instrumentation and Astronomy
Contains research objectives and summary of research on four research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-75-C-1346)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGR 22-009-526)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAS5-22828
Gravitation Research
Contains research objectives and summary of research.National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGR 22-009-526)Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-71-C-0300
Infrared Instrumentation and Astronomy
Contains research objectives and summary of research on five research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-76-C-1400)M.I.T. Sloan Fund for Basic ResearchNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAS5-23731)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGR 22-009-526
Infrared Instrumentation and Astronomy
Contains reports on one research project.Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-75-C-1346
350 Micron Dust Emission from High Redshift Objects
We report observations of a sample of high redshift sources (1.8<z<4.7),
mainly radio-quiet quasars, at 350 microns using the SHARC bolometer camera at
the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. Nine sources were detected (>4-sigma)
and upper limits were obtained for 11 with 350 micron flux density limits
(3-sigma) in the range 30-125mJy. Combining published results at other
far-infrared and millimeter wavelengths with the present data, we are able to
estimate the temperature of the dust, finding relatively low values, averaging
50K. From the spectral energy distribution, we derive dust masses of a few 10^8
M_sun and luminosities of 4-33x10^{12} L_sun (uncorrected for any
magnification) implying substantial star formation activity. Thus both the
temperature and dust masses are not very different from those of local
ultraluminous infrared galaxies. For this redshift range, the 350 micron
observations trace the 60-100 micron rest frame emission and are thus directly
comparable with IRAS studies of low redshift galaxies.Comment: 5 pages, 2 PS figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical
Journal Letter
Infrared Instrumentation and Astronomy
Contains reports on five research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-76-C-1400)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGR 22-009-526)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NSG-7328)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAS5-24096
Resolving IRAS 09111-1007 at 350 microns - a different path to ULIRG formation?
We have resolved the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG), IRAS 09111-1007,
with the new 350 micron-optimised Second Generation Submillimeter High Angular
Resolution Camera (SHARC II) and present the first submillimetre fluxes and
images for the system. IRAS 09111-1007 comprises two interacting luminous
infrared galaxies (LIRGs) with a projected nuclear separation of 39 kpc. The
Western galaxy is roughly four times more luminous in the submillimetre than
its Eastern counterpart. It is an extremely bright LIRG with an AGN. The
classification of the Eastern source is uncertain: it could be a Seyfert 2
galaxy or a LINER. We highlight IRAS 09111-1007 as a system that necessitates
further study: a double AGN ULIRG whose molecular gas content differs from
other widely separated pairs and whose ULIRG phase might not be explained by
current multiple merger and/or final stage ULIRG scenarios.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letter