Heartbeat

Concept

The next three posts contain drawn two dimensional concept storyboards. This one is designed to simulate a heat beat. For this, I was inspired by the previous interaction that show the mouse controlling waves depending on speed and position on the screen. I thought it would be interesting to simulate an electrocardiograph with the mouse controlling ‘life’.  The faster the mouse is moved the faster the heart rate and its subsequent sound. If you were to ‘overload’ the heart by creating too many waves, it would become a flat line. I liked the emotional factor is expressing life and death through sound.

Unfortunately this idea was not well received. Ben thought lacked the abstractness and variability needed to be interesting. In retrospect, I now feel that it is an idea that has already been done to death.