Virtual Technology and Design 3rd Year Design Studio: Emotional Environments

[Brian Cleveley]

Recently my 3rd year design students completed a project in designing
virtual worlds to evoke a specific emotion - these would include:
"Uneasy not dread or angst", "Privacy not isolation", "Protection
(safe) not imprisonment" or "Happiness not Euphoria".

I would like to invite you to experience some of these worlds.
Feedback would be welcomed.

The link to the main webpage is:

http://www.caa.uidaho.edu/vtd/htm/virtualWorlds/VTD355_EmotionalEnvironments.html

Technologies used includes: 3DS Max, Unity and Jibe.

Best,
Brian Cleveley

Virtual Technology and Design, Program Coordinator
College of Art and Architecture, University of Idaho
208.310.1632, c...@uidaho.edu
www.caa.uidaho.edu/vtd
Second Life: Eyem Beck

[Steve G]

Hi Brian,

Interesting work, and I'll likely add it to the look and discuss list
of assignments for my students:)
As for feedback, I'm not sure what to say.
I get a general sense of mood in a blended installation space /
videogame kinda way in each.
As an art project it seems fun and a nice introduction to the media.
I'd be curious to know what architectural and artistic references
served as a primer for this?

Last year I did a related project in Exit Reality.
My students used poetry instead of moods, the goal was to show how
story drives the design of space
Plus how unconventional stories lead to unconventional spaces.
My students are game designers and having them understand the
relationship of story and space is pretty important.

The second goal was to look for new novel / useful interaction
methodologies exposed by the break from merely copying reality.

The project and work is here:
http://www.web3ddesign2010.org/sub_students.html
Have gotten approval to run this again in February in Unity / Jibe
(but I'm only slowly learning Unity, largely because I've also been
having to learn Unreal first)
(so any tips for starting students in Unity)

peace
Steve

On Nov 26, 7:08 pm, Brian Cleveley <cbcleve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently my 3rd year design students completed a project in designing
> virtual worlds to evoke a specific emotion - these would include:
> "Uneasy not dread or angst", "Privacy not isolation", "Protection
> (safe) not imprisonment" or "Happiness not Euphoria".
>
> I would like to invite you to experience some of these worlds.
> Feedback would be welcomed.
>
> The link to the main webpage is:
>

> http://www.caa.uidaho.edu/vtd/htm/virtualWorlds/VTD355_EmotionalEnvir...

[Kyle G]

Brian was there supposed to be some media or a Jibe login on that page?  I am very interested in seeing this work.

> Second Life: Eyem Beck

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[Kyle G]

I figured it out ;)

[Kyle G]

I have an event next week to show off such work would you or your students be available?  See the dates on www.reactiongrid.com click events and go to next week.  This is very cool stuff!

[Kevin Russell]

Great work, Brian. Really enjoyed the students work, however I only was able to see the first 3 multiuser worlds, the others loaded me into the avatar selection room, but the 'start' trigger didn't.

Definitely going to show this to other college and creative economy-economic development folks. 

Also Steve, would love to see the poetry projects, as the story/space connection goals you mention (especially unconventional) is so central to design.

I been thinking again how contextually seems critical to transmedia segmentation and sequencing for a project and these techniques could certainly enhance that, so thank you.

Kind regards,
Kevin

[Lindy Orwin]

Is it just me or do others forget to click to select an actual avatar in the dressing room and then wonder why it isn't working? I must be a slow learner. LOL

I wonder if in future editions of the Jibe basic set up, this could be made clearer that it is essential. 

Lindy

[Douglas Danforth]

I used to do that all the time. Now I remember that I used to forget so I don't forget any more :-).

Could be an issue for new students though. You can always change the splash screen to emphasize that point.

Doug

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[Kyle G]

We can work on a solution for this as I forget as well.

[Merrie S]

Yes add text to the screen with short instructions.

Merrie S.

 

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I used to do that all the time. Now I remember that I used to forget so I don't forget any more :-).

Could be an issue for new students though. You can always change the splash screen to emphasize that point.

Doug

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Lindy Orwin <lindyau...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it just me or do others forget to click to select an actual avatar in the dressing room and then wonder why it isn't working? I must be a slow learner. LOL

 

I wonder if in future editions of the Jibe basic set up, this could be made clearer that it is essential.

 

Lindy

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[Brian Cleveley]

Hi Steve,

Nice work with the "poem" inspired projects. Isn't it amazing what a
class can do in 5-6 weeks.

With respect to the architectural/art references - the project had
three parts. The first part is a one week research project in which
the students in investigated 8 design elements: ordering principles,
form & space, texture, pattern, color, aural, light/shade/shadow and
motion/time. The second part is a one week project to develop a
concept statement and present it as a one page PDF. The third part was
the 4 week project to design the space based upon their concept. Art
and architecture references (and movies and games and music.......)
really started to appear in the concept phase as their "emotional
response" to their personal concept statement. Many of the students
used games as a reference - from there we explored designers
(architecture, interiors, landscape, industrial) and directors.

The back-story to the project is to get a better sense on how a
designer would approach creating an environment that may be use in
Exposure Therapy - or more specific Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
(VRET).

Unity - this was their first attempt at Unity. All of the students had
exposure through Torque so the leap was not huge. I gave a couple of
presentations on Unity basics - import, textures, audio, triggering
animations etc. and gave them a file with samples. I think between
their knowledge of Max, Torque and even Second Life they felt
comfortable in using Unity.

Please let me know if I can be of help with your Unity learning - I
too am re-tooling a class for spring delivery in Unity. Always
learning!

Best,
Brian C.

[Brian Cleveley]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for experiencing our worlds and yes, please share with
others. If you need further information from me you can also contact
me at c...@uidaho.edu.

Also, I had a colleague with a similar access issue - which browser
are you using? We are wondering if there is a memory leak
somewhere.....

Best,
Brian C.

On Nov 28, 9:46 am, Kevin Russell <metawaveme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great work, Brian. Really enjoyed the students work, however I only was
> able to see the first 3 multiuser worlds, the others loaded me into the
> avatar selection room, but the 'start' trigger didn't.
> Definitely going to show this to other college and creative
> economy-economic development folks.
> Also Steve, would love to see the poetry projects, as the story/space
> connection goals you mention (especially unconventional) is so central to
> design.
> I been thinking again how contextually seems critical to transmedia
> segmentation and sequencing for a project and these techniques could
> certainly enhance that, so thank you.
>

> *Kind regards,
> Kevin
>
> *

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Kyle G <reactiong...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have an event next week to show off such work would you or your students

> > be available?  See the dates onwww.reactiongrid.comclick events and go

> > to next week.  This is very cool stuff!
>

> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Kyle G <reactiong...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I figured it out ;)
>

> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Kyle G <reactiong...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Brian was there supposed to be some media or a Jibe login on that page?
> >>>  I am very interested in seeing this work.
>

[Kyle G]

Brian my guess is less memory leak more UI issues.  The lower right (enter Jibe) button is sometimes occluded and sometimes even I forget to click an avatar t get logged in .  Kevin can you try again and report back?

[Gwenette WriterSinclair]

Aloha all,
I had same access issues. I DID click avatar choice - a few times:)  No Start button ever appeared.  And the last two worlds loaded and whooshed me directly into world, no login or avatar choice room at all.  Also only mouse view - is there a choice I was missing to include my avatar in my view?

I am Windows Vista 64bit using FireFox 7.0.1.  I have no other apps running.
Protection TrendMicro; no windows firewall.

GREAT WORK in the worlds I visited!
Gwenette

Gwenette Sinclair
Virtual World Developer Avatar: Gwenette Writer
1 Virtual World Development
Flickr: Gwenette Writer
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/1virtualworlddevelopment/

[Kyle G]

I think the issue is in the differences in how browsers handle the sizing of objects.  I would suggest adding some buffer spacing to the Unity plugin to see if that helps.

[Rick Anderson]

I agree. Good work.

In these builds to the avatars appear? Also, the "a", and "d" keys are
they assigned to rotate or strafe movement? I'm using the Unity3d beta
plugin and I'm not sure if it's my plugin.

--Rick

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[Steve G]

Hi Brian,

...Architecture > 8 design elements > VRET
ok I get the gist :)

References, so no SL or other bodies / documents on virtual spaces is
shared?
I had to do this very piecemeal with URLs and such from scattered
places and old friends.
It's a shame that there's no major organized resource for the type of
design we are doing.
The old site of web3dart.org is sort of gone - and only accessible
via http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

If if helps - here's some things I used (last time)

Scanned picts from:
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Between-People-Physical-Architecture/dp/3791339915
(most of the work is down ...and Doesinger, while a nice guy, has
little experience in the field and hasn't kept up)

My favorite text...from 1993
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberspace-Michael-L-Benedikt-Edited/dp/B004H3Z5RO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322775064&sr=1-1

Tutorials, "Unity - this was their first attempt at Unity. " same for
my students.
Most of the stuff I see is geared to games and pulling out things for
a non-game project is proving interesting.
I suspect you had the same issue... am having some luck now, but again
its pretty piecemeal.

Thanks for the offer of help... Once I get some ducks lined up for the
class, I'll get back to you (and folks here)
Steve

[Kyle G]

Does everybody see this same view with the enter button in the lower right?

[Gwenette WriterSinclair]

My view is almost the same.
The FOR EDU USE text covers my Enter Sim button . . .
basically button not readable.

[Gwenette WriterSinclair]

Update I looked again . . I see EDU text below button now.
Same as your pix in all Jibe worlds.
I am able to access all Jibe worlds now, as well as both Unity only worlds.

[Kyle G]

Great thanks Gwen!