MyScreen – A User Controlled Cause-and-Effect Display
Scott Jobling
Abstract
In
coordination with the wishes of the Nashua Center the
MyScreen Interactive Display is designed to be a fully
functional, highly usable, and highly-visually reactive
positive-reinforcement cause and effect device. The design
is founded on using the simplest possible input while
maintaining a range of possible outputs from the very basic
to the much more involved. To this end the MyScreen is an
LED-based display that is controlled by an analog
touch sensor via RF wireless and acts to balance a simple
interface with capable and useful software. The display is
approximately 2 feet square, with 100 individual points that
can each light in one of four colors. The remote is
approximately the size of a sheet of paper on the face, and
two inches thick. Sixteen programs are available and are
fully accessible through the design of the remote to anyone
with at little as a 2cm radius range of motion via hand,
wand, or other instrument. Ten of the sixteen programs are
designed to be single touch controlled which makes the
majority of the programs even more accessible. The
complexity of the software ranges from requiring a single
touch on approximately one minute intervals to requiring the
user to follow a randomly moving point on the screen
displaying certain colors based on how close his or her
attempts are.
