Approach 2—Eric W

Background:

Have you looked at a picture of yourself and thought I have changed a lot. What if you were able to see a day by day picture slideshow of what you looked like in the day. That is the thought behind my project to allow the user of this plugin to see how they have to change under their conditions. This will allow them to see what they looked like and maybe strike a memory of something that happened that day. This will also allow the user to reflect on themselves over this time and maybe they will see what they look like and want to make a change about what they see in this virtual mirror. This is completely a reflection tool for the user I had no intention of making this public unless the user wanted to export that video file of the pictures and share it with their friends.

Explanation:

How this will work is a user will download this on their computer. The software will automatically take a picture when the computer is used in the morning after a certain time. The user will set a time in the morning and night, when the user uses the computer after this times it will take 1 picture and store it in a file for that date on the user computer. Same thing will happen at night. The user will then specify how long they want this to go on for and after this whether this will be a week or 6 months the user is in complete control of these parameters of their photo. One thing I would like to also include in the download is the ability to scrub through the photos by date and see what you looked like during the cycle on a certain date. Each photo will have a time stamp for you so you know what part of the day that the photo was taken on. The goal is at the end of the cycle that the user will have a video file that compiled all of the photos and they are able to see any change in their appearance or their body language. Sometimes when a live person looks in the mirror they don’t actually see what is there so they have to look at a photo from the past to have it really sink in. Now, you might say why doesn’t a person just take the photo themselves. One thing this plugin will do is take the forgetfulness that humans have so they don’t forget one day to take the photos.

inspiration:

My inspiration is partly from jenny cam. It is a little different that she had herself live on the internet 24/7. But she was able to look back and see what she really look like and how she acted. Well, this project takes a page from that and puts it in a photo form.

Budget:

For this project one thing, I am going to need a good amount of time developing the plugin for the computer. I was able to test this on my own where I took the photos myself and I confirmed that you forget about it on some days and it takes away from the end results. So I really need to develop the plugin to be automatic when the computer turns on for the first time and take a picture at night when the user specifies.  I also have to dictate where to save the picture which I don’t think should be too difficult. I feel the most taxing of both time and money is the how long it will take to make the system completely automatic.

labor- $300