Rodich Project Proposal

For my first project I would like to focus on creating an interface for controlling video/audio/light in a room which is focused on eye sensing, haptics and proprioception. Ideally, this interface allows the user to control the environment without being hyper aware of which actions control what. The idea of being un-aware of your control over the environment and actually controlling it are of course at odds, but the conceptual idea is to pull of a sense of digital magic trick whereas the actions corresponding to actions conducted by the individual user feel natural. Most importantly, I want to design an interface that is 'invisible' to the user, in that they do not understand and don't need to understand the action functionality of the interface setup. 

I suspect that eyesight tracking will involve a sophisticated dissection of data from a webcam feed which I plan to accomplish with tracking in Max. I plan to use a combination of sonar sensors, accelerometers, and infared sensors to track peoples motion around the room. This will likely have to be an array set up in a specific pattern to generate X,Y quardinates in the room in order to direct any sort of audio/video/light for the user to experience as a result of their interaction.