Pressure Project 2 – Personality Test – Min Liu

This project asked us to real a mystery using Isadora and Makey Makey. I wished that the building steps to the secret could have strong connections to the final mystery itself, so I thought of the personality test. Different people may have different feelings about the same sound due to their characters, and their answers reveal the personality mystery. I set up three questions and four personality types. Each question has two answer options. Testers put the alligator of the corresponding color into the bottle to choose an option. This can be a fun interaction way than just pressing the keys.

The most difficult part of this project was deciding the mathematical logic behind the personality test and setting it in Isadora. For now, I didn’t know how to feed data from one scene to another. I set a different key to each answer option. And I built a separate scene to deal with the logic. Actually, it is interesting but kind of strange to calculate a personality. I also tried to interpret different sounds with abstract elements like lines and dots. I am going to learn more about video effect actors and tools for transmitting data in Isodora. This is the Isadora patch for calculating personalities:

I was a proud of the final outcome. But I also met some issues in the test in class. First, the first scene about game instructions is too easy to be triggered by movement… so many testers missed this scene. Second, in one test, two alligators twisted together and trigger a scene unexpectedly, which disrupted the experience. So, it’s important to sort out circuits. This is the test video at home: