So basically I have control of an interface is not suitable for the Kinect, but the Kinect is good for measuring movement of an actual body. From this I came up with some ideas to help me figure out what the Kinect is good for. Some of the ideas were:
- Flexibility/stretching help, this could be used for rehabilitation from injuries. It could try attempt to help the person correctly perform the task and also compile progress reports
- Sign language to text, to help people communicate
- Interactive learning for younger kids, this would be an attempt to make learning more fun and involving and hopefully allows to better learn their material
- Interactive art, using the Kinect to show interactive art on a screen responding to the persons behaviour
- Developmental Coordination Disorder treatment, this would help children with the problem
- Determine how drunk someone is by their body, could be used as pub security
After these ideas I came I decided to go back to my original idea of music, but with some differences. It will evolve more around fun and movement. So continuing this idea, I have been made an small program that gets the users voice and determines the pitch by using autocorrelation I also use RMS of the signal to determine if the user is actually making a sound. I have also further been developing with the Kinect starting to a small program to detect if the hand will be open or closed. I have decided that the final implantation of my program will not have a user interface, more just some graphic representation of the movements or the music.
A good video to show something similar to what I have thought about doing is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPcoM7BIDZ4&feature=player_embedded. This shows the user controlling the filters and other aspects of the pre-made music. I am considering having the music fully composed by the user, as this will use the back end I have already completed.
