Eyeball Control Pinball

Eyeball Control Pinball

Joseph Lyons

Profession
Designer, Maker
Project
Eyeball Control Pinball
Based in
Brighton
Platform Member
Other Today
Works at
Other Today Studio
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Eyeball Control Pinball

About the project

Eyebrow Controlled Pinball is an exploration into how we can incorporate facial recognition & landmarking technology into real life objects. It is an exploratory project that triesto reach into an unknown area of user-product interaction. Introducing this exploratory mindset to children at a young age encourages them to use their imagination when developing new ideas.

– ABOUT –

This section details what is taught through the making of this kit & the UN Sustainability Goals it addresses.

‘What could an under 12 learn from its use/play?’

EBC Pinball teaches and demonstrates through making the possibilities of computer & object interaction and hopes to inspire the younger generation to create interactive technology.
 
The product itself paired with a guided lesson from an educator/teacher aims to help children to develop this kind of person/object thinking, beginning their minds thinking about how they interact with objects and encouraging them to create ‘expressive new interactions with the world around them’.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

EBC Pinball aims to address two goals

4 – Quality Education
9 – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
 
It does this through providing an educational product that demonstrates an innovative use of technology.
 
The UN says “Innovation and technological progress are key to finding lasting solutions to both economic and environmental challenges”. This means trying to push the bounds of what technology is doing so to explore new pathways for economic development and environmental recovery.
 
Eyebrow Controlled Pinball was an exploration into how we can incorporate facial recognition & landmarking technology into real life objects. It was an exploratory project that tried to reach into an unknown area of user-product interaction. Introducing this exploratory mindset to children at a young age encourages them to use their imagination when developing new ideas.