Tobi: Bathing the pedestrians at the curb is a good idea. Your image of the person stepping on the panels that light up suggests interactivity with the lighting the sidewalk is also great.
Andreas: We agree that the driver needs to be alerted as to where the pedestrians are in an oncoming intersection and perhaps we can integrate this idea in the design. Tracking the pedestrians on to the windshield is being explored in Flux's group so we are hesitant to go in that direction. We would like to retain the idea of tracking the pedestrians.
Jenni: Encasing the pedestrian in a bubble of light is great for increasing the visibility of the pedestrians, especially at night. The materiality that your concept suggests is really interesting. It would need some kind of embedded lighting that we could look into.
Lauren: The mapping of the pedestrian's zones vs the drivers zone gave us an interesting perspective of the intersection. It expands the territory of the pedestrians and shows it goes beyond the existing parameters. It also brings up the question whether the existing zones are good enough for the actual behavior of the pedestrians crossing. Lighting up these pedestrian zones is a good way to alert the drivers where pedestrians will cross.
Jenny: The idea of making the crosswalks interactive and changing according to what is going on in the intersection is good. The class felt it integrates everyone's idea so far and is cohesive with the other groups designs. We felt that this might be an good direction to go because it poses exploration into new lighting materials, such as imbedded fiber optics, translucsent concrete, and light defracting color pigments and resonance with light diffusing pigments. It also refers back to everybody's design proposals so far.
Lyn and the class were enthusiastic about the idea of interactive crosswalks. How do you guys feel about this? It incorporates alot of our ideas so far. If you do then we can start designing how this would work. Lauren and Jenny can go to the materials library and start thinking about how this could be applied.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Interactive Zebra Stripes
I am proposing Zebra Stripes that light up according to the behavior of the pedestrians. They alert the driver the intentions of the pedestrians and how they will cross in an intersection. When they are waiting to cross within the intersection, red zebra stripes will light, alerting the drivers that the pedestrians are in the intersection. The cross walks disappear when the "don't walk" sign appears and the pedestrians are unfacilitated to cross.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Lauren Concept 4
During Red Light the road somehow slows down car to intersection.
Promotes Safety: cars are less likely to run red lights
Disney - The Future of Driving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8jZtwRJnRs
fun video worth taking a look at.
fun video worth taking a look at.
ACTUAL Pedestrian Flow
Actual Pedestrian Flow - represented in red.
Please study this diagram. It is very important to the problem we are trying to solve.
Motion Tracking
In this concept I tried to develop some kind of pretelling system, which indicates a driver how many people are crossing an intersection when he is going to turn in there. It is neccessary to have some kind of detector and sender and there should be a way of making this situation feasable for the driver.
On the following screens you will see, how the detector might work and how this information could be told to the driver. Although we talked about, that we are trying to do something with the eviroment, for now I decided on a solution inside the car. I did so, because I think, outside a car is enough going on: There are other cars, pedestrians, bikes, signs, traffic lights and so on. So I wanted the signal to be realized very subconciously (ger: unterbewußt).
On the following screens you will see, how the detector might work and how this information could be told to the driver. Although we talked about, that we are trying to do something with the eviroment, for now I decided on a solution inside the car. I did so, because I think, outside a car is enough going on: There are other cars, pedestrians, bikes, signs, traffic lights and so on. So I wanted the signal to be realized very subconciously (ger: unterbewußt).
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Skype Conclusions (Oct 13)
two concepts each by Thursday evening.
Notes:
Notes:
- language and medium
- lighting up streets
- another way of lighting to deal with pedestrians
- anticipation/forewarn
- driver needs to know
Pedestrian Behavior Mapping
I took some photos time lapse photos of an intersection from up high to observe pedestrians behavior in crossing a street. These photos are layered on top of each other. The red dots mark where pedestrians wait to cross and the green marks pedestrians crossing the street. These photos were taken about 1-2 sec apart. You can see that the pedestrian waiting area spreads far beyond the curb in urban areas.
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