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Elizabeth Ann Costa

Interaction Design

Body Tracking

An independent project where I used a PerceptionNeuron Suit to track my body movements while pulling weeds to collect motion data and experience gardening through a new perspective, ultimately resulting in a visual abstraction of my gardening experience. This was a new way of working for me that yielded new insights in the realm of motion capture, allowing me to collect data and giving me the ability go back and analyze said recorded motions to come up with my own insights and visualizations.
Project Website:
https://elizabethcosta.xyz/BodyTracking-1
Weed Pulling I began collecting my data by going out to my garden and pulling out a dozen weeds by hand. No additional assistance, just me wearing gloves and the perception neuron suit. On the right individual photos of each bundle of weeds I pulled, numbered to match location and color coded ‘red’ for ‘bad pull’ and ‘green’ for ‘good pull’.
Motion Simulation Shown here is each motion of each weed being pulled that was tracked by the perception neuron suit. I tracked the trail of my right hand that was pulling the weed to create a visualization of the motion and was able to see what an entire gardening experience looks like. I was also mindful of my position and location throughout the entire gardening experience as well. Using this data I was able to see what its like to be able to see my entire gardening experience at once.
Abstraction I was then able to pull just the motion trails I collected to create this abstracted visual representation of me pulling weeds in my garden.