This is an open project. Most of you seem interested in different topics related to physical computing, and I don’t want to enforce any specific one on you. Take some time to think about what you would really want to work on. Think about something fun where you feel you will learn something exciting instead of banging your head on a wall trying to debug a project that bores you.

1. Think of a context and an environment where you would like to intervene. Where will you present your project? Who is it made for?
   
   
2. Think about the kind of relationship you wish to foster between your users and the artifact/installation. How can you use your project to destabilize the users and make them reflect on themselves, their environment and society?
   
   
3. Think about the notion of empowerment. Is your artifact really helping/challenging its users in any way or is it just another psychological prosthesis?
   
   
4. Think about something meaningful. What are you trying to tell us with your project?

TOPICS YOU MAY WANT TO EXPLORE

• Tangible User Interfaces – connecting people to the digital world through new physical objects.
  
  
• Responsive Environments – large-scale installations that react to user intervention.
  
  
• Wearable Electronics – reactive fabrics that challenge our relationship with the things we normally wear.
  
  
• Expressive Interfaces – new media for expression, physical instruments for performance.
  
  
• Distributed Sensor/Actuator Networks – swarms of simple networked modules that exhibit emergent behaviors.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

• Your project must have more than one level of interaction and must afford the intended modes of interaction.
  
  
• It must be meaningful to users beyond the element of surprise.
  
  
• It must be functional for the presentation.