Final project proposal

Guys, It's time to go home

: A reminder song from sensors for ITPers to maintain work and life balance

Inspiration

The following videos are the songs played at the department's closing time with the closing notice. Around 8 PM this song always played and it still gives me a lot of different memories from hearing the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e4kNdcHuhE&ab_channel=백로

Goodbye - Mary Hopkin (안녕 - 메리 홉킨) 1969 ,한글자막

Background

Working day and night as an ITP student, I thought it would be interesting to have a song played at a certain time. It can give students a very small reminder to wrap things up and go home for work and life balance. Also maybe the song becomes an iconic thing that we can remind after graduating from ITP. (ITP does not have a song, so why not make it?)

Different ITPer's interaction data will play a big part in composing the song, creating a different but familiar piece each day. With multiple sensors, I will form an orchestra.

From morning to 11 PM, each sensor data will be recorded every hour. At 12 AM, the music will be played based on the recorded data mapped to the musical cords.

The project aims to 1) get sensor data from the floor, 2) log them internally during the day, 3) map them to musical notes, 4) compose them to music using ML, and 5) finally play at 12 AM. If I proceed with this idea, it will tie this up with the Time class.

The project aims to see people's activity in the eyes of machines (sensors) and interpret it in a listenable language.

1. Get sensor data from the floor

Sensors on the floor

Information from Tom:

There are 5 light sensors on the floor picking up the light value (NE, NW, SE, SW corners, and last at Tom's desk). They are positioned to pick up the light from the windows and log Lux and color temperature value every one second.

The data was quite different from what I expected. From the above dataset, we can read the information on environmental data, not the information on people's activity on the floor.

As my intention is to log human activity in the different corners of the ITP floor. I might need sensors that read the following activity.

Light value to see how bright the area is.
Decibel sensor to see how crowded the area is (or other sensors like or camera to check how many people are there).
Distance sensor

So I'd need to install those sensors and log them as MQTT data logger examples OR use an already existing light sensor to make a musical story.