Interaction With People

To find our location for projecting our produced images onto, we need to first determine where the most amount of human traffic is. This will give us a greater opportunity to interact with them when displaying our projections upon our chosen surface.
We have been told that our drive-by projection window is between 16:00 - 18:00, so this will require visiting Union Street again to research into where the busiest area is, then finding our desired projection surface.
Existing projects have gone about recording data from people in different methods. Here is one example of how people's daily routines may be recorded and documented.

All images below were found at paperspace: design and used for research purposes helping me develop my own ideas of how I will begin to record peoples paths.

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1: This image shows the general movements of people by collating images to create one, and then all paths can be seen in one.
2: Image 2 begins then to get more specific by taking photos as time progresses making notes of the change in peoples paths, then beginning to define the different types of people that crossed the cameras sight. It also shows the plan view on the right hand side of the image showing exactly the cameras position and span the cameras capture span has.
3: The 3rd image now begins to focus more specifically on people only that passed, also documenting the types of people they were as previously done.
4: Finally the last image is a key that defines each person/people type by explaining each diagram of stick figures.

I find this method of logging peoples path very useful, but not the method I will be choosing when making my own recordings. I do however really think the plan view of the camera, and having a camera stationary taking photos over a period of time is a very effective way of capturing human traffic in a specific area. This will be considered when I begin to plan my pedestrian observations.

Another example found was not only the preferred paths people pursue, but the line of sight they make throughout their journey. The images below were taken from Chao Han's blog. Using peoples moving eyesight to record where and what they see in all directions.

These images show the kind of information that is extremely useful to my project. By recording the eyesight of people in the area, this will hopefully provide us with a specific building/surface to chose when considering where to project. If we can find a building/surface that we notice people look at regularly, our chances of interaction with passing people will become much greater.

we as a group now must pay another visit to Union Street with armed with a camera between the hours of 16:00 and 18:00 to determine where the most suitable place would be to park our black van and project our images upon.