June 9, 2010


Mirror of Symptoms

Today almost 50 000 Norwegians suffers from Alzheimer’s, and within 20 years scientists believe this number will have doubled. Alzheimer is a brain disease witch develops gradually and causing permanent impairment to the brain. It occurs most often in old age, but it can also affect people in their 50s.

The Mirror of Symptoms visualize some of the many symptoms patients with Alzheimer’s can get. By manipulating videos of the users we want them to get a visual impression of how it is to have 

Alzheimer’s. 


May 29, 2010
The Code

The Code


Processing - it’s difficult!!

There has been many problems with processing-codes during this project. Thanks to Anthony Rowe we have put three different codes into one file, but we’re still missing the last code and some text frames. This will hopefully be done by this week, when Anthony comes back from England (fingers crossed). 


Pictures of preparations and prototypes 


Preparations and prototyping

After the tutoring with Fiona and Matt we started to work on the visual look we wanted our installation to have. We had to finish the processing codes and find a way to get the physical neurons to light with the possibilities to turn them on and off.


New consept

Our new concept is very similar to our original idea, but instead of using physical neurons as interactive switches to control the projected symptoms, they will only function as esthetic elements. However, they will have a light going on and off representing dying neurons (which is a direct link to the alzheimer’s disease).

So the learning outputs we are going to focus on are three symptoms:

1. Think and move slower

2. Confusion with time and place

3. Loss of memory 


10 signs of Alzheimer's


Workshop with Fiona Romeo and Matt Brown

In this workshop we learned about learning outcomes, learnings styles and attractors and labels. Each group also had a short tutoring session in front of class, which gave us all good directions on how to go on from here.

Tonje and I was told that our installation was to complex, and that we had to simplify it. Fiona recommended that we should focus only on one aspect – either what happens in the brain or some of the symptoms. Because scientist don’t exactly know what causes alzheimer’s and why braincells dies, she told us that it was better if we focused on the symptoms – and so we did


After some weeks we had to present our ideas to the people from The Norwegian museum of Science and Technology (images of the presentation above). Henrik Treimo, who are responsible for “Mind the gap” liked our idea, but we had to work on how to communicate the context between the braincells and the symptoms.