In the LOOP is an interactive space

where teens and tweens can play with,

manipulate and create audio and video

looping compositions.

Inspirations for In The LOOP

Contact Improv – “The Machine”

Sony Wonder Lab

Recording Studios

Minority Report

Kinect

Photo Booth

Scott Snibbe Installation

"Deep Walls"

Deezer

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Gamestar Mechanic

SFSKids

Audience

Families Middle Schoolers

Kids into Music

School

Groups

Artists

Theory (old white guy slide)

Usability design incorporating visibility, conceptual models, and feedback, informed by Donald Norman’s Design of Everyday Things.

Educational experience inspired by Papert’s constructionism and the learning-by-doing framework.

A social learning experience informed by Brown and Collins' theory of Situated Cognition, supported by an online community of practice.

Donald Norman

Seymour Papert

Allan Collins

In The LOOP flow

WebKiosk

Studio

Physical Floating Gallery

(local & global)community

global

friends

Experience Diagram

Where we envision In The LOOP

Museums

After School Programs

Where we envision In The LOOP

Music Schools

Cultural Centers

Where we envision In The LOOP

communal interactive vibrant spaces

No hoity-toity, stuffy spaces

In The LOOP space

SKETCH UP

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=spunkytwit#p/u/1/2cV2MufF7LE

Lobby

Floating Gallery

Kiosks/Physical Space Log-in

VIDEOoverview footage of the area (recording pods, display

screen, ending lobby displays)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYq8fFzzr7k

Countdown Clock

Inside the Recording Studio

VIDEOdescription of how we see the 3 screens inside recording

pods working for In the LOOP - before we got cut off :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IWQTg2JrWk

Gestural Interface

The Selector

Kinect selector

Creator

VIDEO Video of Des or Katya dancing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxp2xAXk0Ho

Manipulator

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=spunkytwit#p/u/0/f4iis0jVLGQ

Adding more loops

Smushing sound and video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11UNoGwVOA

Lobby after Looping

Export finished loop composition

Email it to yourself

Share it on Facebook

Send it to the Floating Gallery

Save it to your online personal library

Web Homepage

Web MINI LOOP App

Web Component: Personal Profile

Web Component:THE CHALLENGE

Gamestar Mechanic: Game Alley

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The Future of In The LOOP

In The LOOP is a living system that concentrates on the people, not the technology

Global: Institutions can be connected around the world, Floating Gallery can show compositions from whole world

And now, you’re

In The