Tuesday, 3 April 2007

Going down

Yesterday I considered the option of having a projection of a lift. I thought that maybe I could take this one step further and actually project the screen onto the front of a lift, as demonstrated in some rough Photoshops below.

The first of these perhaps has potential for a printed media series. Could perhaps pin it up as a poster on the front of the lift in place of the projection but would sacrifice the user interaction element. Different messages would be activated on stepping on a pressure pad or via a motion detector sensor, perhaps at random or as the person gets closer to the lift. For example, the user sees the lift from a distance, which would at this point have no projection.

As they move closer people would notice the messages changing: "Hey, you're not thinking of using me are you?" or "Hello there," if the lift was feeling in a better mood. Maybe this could change throughout the day as more and more people use the lift. "Hey, stop walking all over me" or "stop treating me like a public service".

Further to this, maybe the projection would detect when the door opens and turn itself off. At times of inactivity maybe there could be 'screensavers' of the fish swimming about or those cheesy 'brick wall maze' ones from early Windows computers, complete with Lift Interactive scribbled on the walls or something (right).

1 comments:

Smeech said...

i like the idea that you cause people to think twice before using the lift, eg "use ths stairs". it would then change people's behaviour.

Not sure about the point of a 'screen saver' though. It detracts from the main thrust of this idea, and would seem a bit for the sake of it.

But the lift one is defintely possible, funny and could be developed. plau you can try it out at 68 hope st!