Expression Explora towards Rangoli Colors: PROPOSAL

PROPOSAL ONE

Topic: Smoking
Target Audience: Teenager (13-17) Objective: To give awareness to the teenager on the effect of smoking.
Type of Application: An interactive application

Content:

· History of tobacco

· Effects of smoking

· Quitting smoking

· Lungs affection test

PROPOSAL TWO

Topic: Digital menu system
Target Audience: Public
Objective: Allow public to order food without human contact.
Type of Application: Touch Screen / Deli Touch pen/ camera

Research

Wireless digital menu system allows you to order food without human contact

I knew a couple of people who would love this idea - ordering food from a menu by using a wireless digital pen to scan barcodes, which then sends your order to the restaurant's kitchen without your having to speak with anyone. The Deli Touch pen by Taraoka is essentially a camera that reads barcodes embedded in the pictures on a menu and sends them to a printer in the kitchen where the order is filled.

Of course, without a robot, a human being would be necessary at some point to actually bring the food out to you, no? Then there's the pesky business of having to pay for the food, though I would think that could easily be automated too. If this idea catches on, think of the whole new industry that could develop to serve the socially phobic.

PROPOSAL THREE

Topic: Bright Lights
Theme: Christmas
Target Audience: Public
Objective: Large floor projections in a row on the footpath of the park created a magical atmosphere, and invited visitors to play with several interactive applications
Type of Application: Projection/ Flash/ Camera

Refference: http://www.field.io/project/bright-nights#/0

A variety of twelve games alternates with fluent transitions on the seven fields. The elements spin and twirl around, float away from the wave of your hand, form a circle around you, invite you for pingpong or a snowball fight.

PROPOSAL FOUR

Topic: Heart Attack

Aim & Objectives

· To attract people on using this application while people travelling using public transportation.

· To provide an interesting and attractive application with useful information to public in a short period in their daily travelling journey.

· To alert public on the cost of heart attack

· To give information on how to prevent.

Ideation & Concept

For my project, I want to create an interactive touch screen application that allows user to interact with it. This application provides the user information on causes of heart attack, how to prevent, information on healthy diet and proper exercise.

Background
Myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as a heart attack is the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die. This is most commonly due to occlusion (blockage) of a coronary artery following the rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids (fatty acids) and white blood cells (especially macrophages) in the wall of an artery. The resulting ischemia (restriction in blood supply) and oxygen shortage, if left untreated for a sufficient period of time, can cause damage or death (infarction) of heart muscle tissue (myocardium).

Classical symptoms of acute myocardial infarction include sudden chest pain (typically radiating to the left arm or left side of the neck), shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, sweating, and anxiety (often described as a sense of impending doom)[1]. Women may experience fewer typical symptoms than men, most commonly shortness of breath, weakness, a feeling of indigestion, and fatigue.[2] Approximately one quarter of all myocardial infarctions are "silent", without chest pain or other symptoms.

Prevention

While people cannot control their family history and genetics, they can minimize risk factors for heart disease:

    * quit smoking
    * manage high blood pressure,
    * manage cholesterol,
    * manage diabetes,
    * exercise regularly
    * take a baby aspirin a day.

These are all lifelong challenges to prevent heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease.
Even with the best of preventive care, heart attacks happen. Develop an emergency plan should chest pain occur and make certain you and your family know how to activate the Emergency Medical Services and 911.

SRI Question:

What are the life styles of people who get heart attack?

PROPOSAL FIVE

Topic :“Rangoli” @Kolam

Aim & Objectives

Ø Using the concept Rangoli colours and design to produce a nice digital format Ranggoli.

Ideation & Concept

For my project, I want to create an informative interactive application for small kids that let kids more familiar with colour and able to create creative design based on the original Ranggoli.

Research Question:

Why Rangoli designs are drawn during Diwali?

What is the importance of Deepavali Rangoli patterns?

What’s the benefit of Rangoli to humans?

What are the types of Rangoli?

What are the colours used?

What the meaning of the colour?

Background Research

Rangoli is the popular floor art of India. It is an auspicious art of decorating courtyards and prayer halls in India drawn mainly by women and girls. Some women use rice flour to draw a rangoli which is the traditional medium to be used while others use sandstone or limestone powder. The designs are then colored with various colored powdered dyes. Although this floor-art is known as Rangoli commonly in many parts of India, it is known as Kolam in Tamil Nadu, Muggulu in Andhra pradesh, Rangavalli in Karnataka, Poovidal or Pookalam in Kerala, Chowkpurana in Uttar Pradesh, Madana in Rajasthan, Aripana in Bihar and Alpana in Bengal.

The colorful kolam tradition dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization (2500 B.C). Kolams were often drawn with coarse rice flour since it served as a food source to nature's creatures like ants and crows. Rice flour is seen as an offering to Lakshmi, the goddess of rice and wealth. The goddess has the power to attract prosperity and to prevent poverty from entering the home. In this category you'll find all kinds of small and big kolam designs which are further categorized for various occasions.

People decorate the front entrance of their houses with colorful Rangoli designs. Rangoli is the art of drawing images and motifs using different color powders. The patterns are made with fingers using rice powder, crushed lime stone, or colored chalk. They may be topped with grains, pulses, beads, or flowers. Since the entire objective of making rangoli in diwali is to welcome Goddess Laxmi, small footprints coming into the home, representing the footprints of the Goddess. Rangolis can be of any size, from the size of a doormat, to the covering an entire room.

One important point is that the entire pattern must be an unbroken line, with no gaps to be left anywhere, for evil spirits are believed to enter through such gaps, if they find one. In an expert hand, the images created are elaborate and look as if they are painted.

They also light up their homes with colorful lights. The most common lights used are the string of outdoor lights - especially the bigger bulb - string of lights. They place these on their balconies as most of the people live in tall apartment complexes called - flats. You will also see Diwali Kandils in the balconies.

Diwali is a time to buy new clothes & also purchase gorgeous gold and silver jewelry.

In the small villages cattle are worshipped by farmers as they form the main source of their income. In the south of India cows are offered special Diwali sweets as they are regarded as the incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi and therefore they are adorned and worshipped on this day.

SRI Question:

Symbolic Rangoli Designs.

References