At the beginning of the session, we looked at different FMP projects. This was helpful because it showed how other students developed their ideas from a concept into a finished project. It also helped me understand how an experimental project can still have a clear structure, visual direction, and critical meaning behind it.
This week, we continued developing the next stage of our project by adding heatmaps to our MediaPipe setup. After successfully connecting the hand and body detection, we wanted to create a stronger visual representation of the subject’s movement and activity.
The heatmap allowed us to show where the subject was moving the most on screen. This added another layer to the project, because the body was no longer only being tracked through points and lines, but also through areas of intensity. The more movement happened in one area, the stronger the visual effect became
At the end of the session, we wrote a project statement to clarify the overall concept. This helped us define the purpose of the work more clearly. The project is not only about making an interactive visual system, but also about questioning how digital systems measure and simplify human behaviour. The system may be able to detect movement, but it cannot understand emotion, intention, or context.