EVALUATION SET UP. TINA GONSALVES
Monday morning at Lighthouse. Kim Byers is here from the human computer interaction center at UCL to start an initial evaluation. We have set up studio one as a testing lab. There is a projector – with the portraits projected large on the wall. There are some speakers for sound and also the camera which monitors the facial emotion expression which drives the interaction.
Its been hard to organise placement of camera with the screen so large. The bigger the screen, the more one needs to sit back from it. Meaning, where do you place the camera? We need the face to be rather close to the camera at the moment which makes the face hard to read. The face reader also likes lightness – not darkness. I have bought a very expensive set of infra-red lights – but this morning, I couldn’t really notice a difference.
Anyway, its all set up now, and the first of the evaluation sessions has begun. We placed a couch in the middle of the room. Then a chair in front of the couch that holds the camera. We tested the light, and so far , the camera seems to work.
Its strange the i don’t see much difference using the infra red.
