“15 seconds of fame” is an interactive installation which every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected person from the audience. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”. The installation detects human faces to crop them from the wide-angle picture of people who are standing in fron...

Our computing environment consists of hundreds of UNIX and NT-based computers. We have a coherent UNIX software installation model that scales comfortably to hundreds of machines. We have spent a great deal of time in the last year learning to understand the software installation and support mechanisms for a similarly large NT infrastructure. In this paper, we examine the underlying requirement...

“15 seconds of fame” is an interactive installation which every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected person from the audience. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”. The installation detects human faces to crop them from the wide-angle picture of people who are standing in fron...

INTRODUCTION While smoke alarm installation programs can help prevent residential fire injuries, the costs of running these programs are not well understood. METHOD We conducted a retrospective cost analysis of a smoke alarm installation program in 12 funded communities across four states. Costs included financial and economic resources needed for training, canvassing, installing, and followi...

This paper describes the processes involved in developing Pendula, an immersive installation and novel performance instrument, using three swings, gesture tracking, and an interactive audio/visual environment. A short overview of related work will be followed by the development and implementation process of Pendula as both an installation and performance instrument in a professional artistic co...

Auditory gestures are sound signals that represent spatially located information that can be stored or accessed by human gestural interaction in space. This document presents initial work to develop a model of auditory gesture for application in interactive installation environments, also applicable to spatial interaction with responsive spaces in buildings and public works. An interactive inst...

In fact, the problem of arranging one or more capacitor(s) to form a constant level of compensation in electrical power system is quite significant. The two major problems that the modern power systems are facing are voltage and angle stabilities. There are various approaches to overcome the problem of stability arising due to small signal oscillations in an interconnected power system. Install...