Jingle Bell Rings After SinterKlaas
We were happy to get a professional photo for our team before the end of the project. Here we are! Team MAREQI is back with a high spirit!
This sprint is 1 week shorter than previous ones. We made the most of it and had a lot of fun.
Finnish Lunch Cooking
Our happy Finnish girl, Janina, conducted a Finnish lunch on 4 December for MediaLAB. By the way, Finland celebrated 100 years of independence on 6 December. We, creators from all over the world, celebrated this historical moment in advance by eating Finnish spinach pancake!
SinterKlaas Party
SinterKlaas left some gift boxes in MediaLAB before he went back to Spain. On 6 December, almost all MediaLAB members surrounded by each other reading our letters and opened gift boxes from SinterKlaas. Some got chocolate letters, and some received toys. The whole room was filled with laughters and happiness. What a wonderful evening!
Experiment
We set up a room with black curtains and aluminum foils in none/RGB lighting. The main goal of this experiment was to test change in the heart rate when the users were exposed to something fearful in a virtual environment. Subjects were told to watch a calming video in order to generate a resting heart rate as a baseline. Then, they were asked to play a game called Slender man which provided an individual gaming experience. Half of participants were exposed to RGB lights which changed colors based on user’s heart rate during the game while another half of participants were exposed to a dark room. Meanwhile, we recorded the users’ behavioral responses during the game.
Snow White Amsterdam
On Monday morning, 11 December 2017, the whole Amsterdam city was covered with white snow. In the afternoon, heavy storm with big snowflakes hit the whole city. Trains and flights got canceled due to orange alert warning. We could not continue our experiment on the day since we could not get any participants.
As a result of data analyzation in the end of the experiment, it showed that there was not much relation between heart rate range and scary level. We are now trying to figure out a make-sense computational model in other ways.
Christmas Party
We set up a lovely Christmas tree in our office and get a Christmas-feeling group photo with our coach Tamara in the end of 2017. In addition, HvA invited employees including us to a fancy Christmas party with yummy food, drinks, and loud music in a party hall where we drank and danced till late. Tamara showed her enthusiasm on dancing which was very impressive.
In 2017, We experienced up and down together in our project. Hope it can only make us stronger in 2018!
Cheers!