getRelated was written in processing. It utilises the flickr api to create a ´flash poem´, simply enter a seed word and getRelated will do the rest.
flickr.tags.getRelated returns a list of tags ‘related’ to the given tag, based on clustered usage analysis. In the example video I have requested a 4 x4 grid and used a new seed word on each line, in this case earth fire wind and water.
The Human Hit Counter translates to web stats for the physical world. It offers detailed traffic information not based on page hits but the number of people you detect via Bluetooth. The result is a unique representation of space displayed in a way as to highlight possible habitus routes and habitus route intersections.
My project consists of a mobile phone application written in J2ME that logs Bluetooth users nearby and exports the data in an xml format. The second stage analysis, involves an application written in Processing. It reads the xml file created with the J2ME Application, and displays the data visually.
Beatesthesia is a highly customizable WYSIWYG music visualizer. It represents my most ambitious project to date. In the first week the site recieved over 10,000 hits thanks mainly due to this review popping up over at www.createdigitalmotion.com.
Beatesthesia is a new open-source, cross-platform VJing/music visualizer application programmed in Processing. It sports some interesting design decisions, including an audio-reactive user interface. Its an interesting idea, and is certainly pretty and definitely novel. At first glance, I didn’t like the blinking UI; it struck me as being far too distracting, but, after second thought, it’s a pretty decent way of conveying content and disambiguating a UI elements purpose. Well done. Check out the Vimeo video and home page to get a feel for its capabilities.
Beatesthesia strikes me as being more of a music visualizer than a fully featured VJ application, but it’s open source, which means it will grow as it pulls in a dedicated user base. Beatesthesia’s website also hosts shared projects, so you can explore other users visualizations. [Ed. For what it's worth, it looks like more than just a visualizer to me -- especially as you start to edit the ways in which it works and make more elements "performable" -- and if you don't like this specific implementation, you could certainly code your own in Processing! Anyone performing with this or building something similar, let us know. -PK]
The Skills Plus site was a freelance job completed for the University of Plymouth in 2007. The site had to sit within the existing UoP Intranet, as a result no dynamic code could be used.
This self assesment application was written in Flash and communicated with a Perl backend. Exhibited at the Ascilite 2007 conference.
‘There was, in my view, a rare gem in the paper by Jon Yorke and his colleagues, from the Educational Development and Learning Technologies Department at the University of Plymouth, who described a simple but apparently very effective technique for linking together learner managed e-learning resources and tutor feedback, constructed in such a way so as to minimise the time demands on academic colleagues whilst still providing critical aspects of formative assessment. This comes close to achieving the holy grail of e-learning –improved effectiveness and efficiency simultaneously, consuming only modest development resources. Keynote speaker’ Prof Terry Mayes
