The Cube presentation

The Cube A music system to play your cloud-based play lists.

Concept designs and prototype by Anke Stohlmann and Richard Clarkson Smart Objects/Carla Diana, SVA February 25th, 2013

Project Objective We set out to improve the experience of media storage devices.

We investigated how users can access their cloud-based media without using their computer/mobile device and how users can personalize shared devices like computers and phones.

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Insights Storage • Users use less and less storage devices.

• Users store their media (music and images) in the cloud.

• Their personal media is accessible from any computer/device.

Past/Current Storage media devices plug into computers.

Music • Users have play lists at Pandora, Spotify, iTunes.

• They purchase music online.

• They don’t own their music, but listen to free music or pay a subscription fee.

Now/Future Computers access cloud-stored data via wifi.

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Concept The cube is a media system consisting of a speaker and a “remote”. The media system accesses a user’s cloud-based play lists and connects them to the user’s speakers.

The small cube (remote) is used to pick a play list. Each cube side correlates to a user’s play lists (or different users’ play lists) that the user(s) have set via their phone or computer. The cube’s sides can be linked to any cloud-based music server like iTunes, Pandora, Spotify, etc..

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Concept continued

Playlist A

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Playlist B

Playlist C

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Interactions

Set Up Computer/mobile device

The user sets the settings for the 5 sides of the cube, each correseponding to a user’s playlist.

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1 Side Trigger The user places the cube on a surface. When the side of the cube touches a surface, it sends a signal to the speaker.

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Set Up

Set Up

Set et Up your Cube sides

Set et Up your Cube sides

iTunes Pandora The Cube

Spotify Groove Shark Last FM Soundcloud

Cube Set et Up

Pandora Playlists Elle Goulding

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Pandora: Elle Goulding

Michael Jackson

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iTunes: Party Mix

Chat Baker

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Pandora: Down Tempo

Down Tempo

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Spotify: Pop

Lady Gaga

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iTunes: Jazz Mix

Bob Marley

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2 Speaker The speaker receives the data and interprets the signal, and requests from the music service the playlist corresponding to the data.

4 Speaker/Music The speaker streams selected playlist.

cloud-based music service

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3 Cloud-based music service The service receives the requests and streams requested music playlist.

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Information Flow

cloud-based music service

send to cloud-based music service

cloud

request playlist

send/stream playlist

set & adjust settings remotely

send data (cube side) choose playlist

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play playlist

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Process

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Final Prototype/Video

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