IDEA DEVELOPMENT

Mind map

mind map of feelings and emotions

mind map of Art,Science,Urbanism and Ecology

Audio Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oR8ZCmQpI&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFqHyCoypfM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52RP9mGwF1A 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfLs3UnoW6s&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGsDB5n0RF8&feature=related 

Precedence Studies

List of endangered Plants in Malaysia

 Pitcher Plants

A pitcher plant usually consists of a shallow root system and a creeping or climbing stem, often several meters long, and usually 1 cm or less in diameter (may be thicker in a few species, e.g., N. bicalcarata ). From the stem arises leaf-like expanded leaf stalks, similar to certain Citrus species, ending in a tendril, which in some species aids in climbing. The end of the tendril forms the pitcher, considered to be the true leaf. The pitcher starts as a small bud and gradually expands to form a round or tube-shaped trap.

The trap contains a fluid which is secreted by the plant, and may be watery or syrupy, and is used to drown the prey. The lower part of the trap contains glands which absorb the nutrients released from the decaying prey. Along the upper inside part of the trap is a slick waxy coating which makes the escape of its prey nearly impossible. Surrounding the entrance to the trap is a structure called the peristome (or ‘lip’) which is slippery and often quite colourful, attracting the prey but offering an unsure footing. Above the peristome is a lid (the operculum); in many species this keeps rain from diluting the fluid within the pitcher. The pitcher may contain nectar glands which attract the prey.

Refflesia

Facts About Rafflesia

* Rafflesia is the largest individual flower. Titan arum bears the largest inflorescence.

* Rafflesia is a parasite which attaches itself to a host plant, Tetrastigma vine, which grows only in undisturbed rainforests, to obtain water and nutrients.

* The genus Rafflesia is named after adventurer and founder of the British colony of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.

* Rafflesia is the official state flower of Sabah in Malaysia, as well as for the Surat Thani Province, Thailand.

* Rafflesia manillana, the smallest species in the genus Rafflesia is also has 20 cm diameter flowers.

* Rafflesia flowers are unisexual.

* Forest mammals and tree shrews feed on Rafflesia fruit which is 15cm in diameter, filled with smooth flesh and thousands of tiny hard coated seeds.

* It is believed that rafflesia is related to poinsettias, violets, passionflowers, and other members of the order Malpighiales.

* The rotten smell of the flower is due to the reddish
tentacle-like, branched ramentae, inside the corolla of petals.

* Rafflesia is an endangered or threatened genus.

* Rafflesia arnoldii does not have chlorophyll, as all the green plants have and so it cannot undergo photosynthesis.

Venus Flytrap

The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant’s leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves comes into contact with one or more of the hairs twice in succession, the trap closes. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against the spurious expending of energy toward trapping other, non-living things which may not reward the plant with similar nutrition.

Slipper Orchirds

Paphiopedilum niveum (Slipper orchid) is a terrestrial orchid peculiar to the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia.The greatest variety of wild orchids are in the hills and mountains. Taman Negara and Cameron Highlands in Pahang are two of the better-known localities for observing orchids but real orchid admirers should visit Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. Orchids account for a quarter of all flowering plants on the mountain, totalling a staggering 1,200 species.

IDEA DEVELOPMENT




Since I have changed my subject matter from trees into plants. Here are some sketches on plants

                                                                            Sketch 1

                                                                           Sketch 2

STORYBOARD

 1.The first picture shows the set up of the installation

2.The second shows a user with the installation

3. The third piture shows the ser trying to touch the plants in the installation

4.The forth picture is showing that the user hears some audio’s when he touches the plants.

 SOFTWARES AND HARDWARES

Zone trigger

The Zone Trigger software series is all about enabling anyone to incorporate motion or sound detection in their custom projects. The Zone Trigger softwares can be downloaded and installed in a few seconds. It’s so simple to use that you can set up a custom system within a matter of minutes. On detecting motion, Zone Trigger can do almost anything: play sounds, run programs or commands, take control of other software, send email and files over the internet. Plus it has many extra features such as an HTTP server and archive services.

Speaker

A loudspeaker (or "speaker") is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful. The most common form of loudspeaker uses a paper cone supporting a voice coil electromagnet acting on a permanent magnet, but many other types exist. Where accurate reproduction of sound is required, multiple loudspeakers may be used, each reproducing a part of the audible frequency range. Miniature loudspeakers are found in devices such as radio and TV receivers, and many forms of music players. Larger loudspeaker systems are used for music, sound reinforcement in theatres and concerts, and in public address systems.

Webcam

A webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi. Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. This common use as a video camera for the World Wide Web gave the webcam its name. Other popular uses include security surveillance and computer vision and there is also uses on sites like video broadcasting service and for recording social videos . Webcams are known for their low manufacturing cost and flexibility, making them the lowest cost form of videotelephony. They have also become a source of security and privacy issues, as some built-in webcams can be remotely activated via spyware.

FLOOR PLAN

There will some plants hanging, two speaker and three webcams  in the set up.

Research ( Critics 2 )

Basic emotions

List of emotions

Here is a deeper list of emotions as described in Parrot (2001), where emotions were categorised into a short tree structure.

Primary emotion	Secondary emotion	Tertiary emotions
Love	Affection	Adoration, affection, love, fondness, liking, attraction, caring, tenderness, compassion, sentimentality
	Lust	Arousal, desire, lust, passion, infatuation
	Longing	Longing
Joy	Cheerfulness	Amusement, bliss, cheerfulness, gaiety, glee, jolliness, joviality, joy, delight, enjoyment, gladness, happiness, jubilation, elation, satisfaction, ecstasy, euphoria
	Zest	Enthusiasm, zeal, zest, excitement, thrill, exhilaration
	Contentment	Contentment, pleasure
	Pride	Pride, triumph
	Optimism	Eagerness, hope, optimism
	Enthrallment	Enthrallment, rapture
	Relief	Relief
Surprise	Surprise	Amazement, surprise, astonishment
Anger	Irritation	Aggravation, irritation, agitation, annoyance, grouchiness, grumpiness
	Exasperation	Exasperation, frustration
	Rage	Anger, rage, outrage, fury, wrath, hostility, ferocity, bitterness, hate, loathing, scorn, spite, vengefulness, dislike, resentment
	Disgust	Disgust, revulsion, contempt
	Envy	Envy, jealousy
	Torment	Torment
Sadness	Suffering	Agony, suffering, hurt, anguish
	Sadness	Depression, despair, hopelessness, gloom, glumness, sadness, unhappiness, grief, sorrow, woe, misery, melancholy
	Disappointment	Dismay, disappointment, displeasure
	Shame	Guilt, shame, regret, remorse
	Neglect	Alienation, isolation, neglect, loneliness, rejection, homesickness, defeat, dejection, insecurity, embarrassment, humiliation, insult
	Sympathy	Pity, sympathy
Fear	Horror	Alarm, shock, fear, fright, horror, terror, panic, hysteria, mortification
	Nervousness	Anxiety, nervousness, tenseness, uneasiness, apprehension, worry, distress, dread

 

Children's Emotion (face expressions)


Starting at a very young age, children feel all types of emotions. They know sadness, happiness, fear, anger, and many other feelings. Emotions tell us how we feel about different situations. They push us into action and give us the energy to stop negative experiences and gain more positive experiences. Even though children feel these emotions, they don’t always understand them. And they may not know what to do with them when they feel them.


How Children Feel
Over time, children in single-parent families will feel all types of emotions. At first they will feel shocked and puzzled when they realize there is going to be a change in their family. Some children feel these emotions when they realize that they live with one parent while other children live with two parents. Children in shock may cry for no clear reason or they may withdraw from family or friends. Or they may try to think things out or ask lots of questions. In any case, children need help to understand that it is all right to talk about how they feel. And be sure to tell them what is happening.Many children also feel anger, fear, guilt, shame, and relief. They may be angry at their parents for changing their family life. Remember that when one parent moves out of the home or dies, children may fear that the other parent will also leave or die. In the case of divorce or death, children may feel that they caused the break-up of the family. They may feel that nothing would have happened if they had acted differently. Remind children that they didn’t cause the death or divorce. Some children may also be ashamed or embarrassed about their families. They may try to hide what is happening. Help them realize that there are a lot of single-parent families and that they can be proud of their family. Often, some relief is mixed with all of these negative feelings. Some children will actually feel better in those early months after a divorce or a death as life settles into a routine and children focus their attention on other things.

Facial expressions and reactions 

 Children may not understand that their faces and inside feelings are clues to their emotions. Children may need some help to understand how these face and body clues tell what they are feeling.To help children connect their feelings with their body clues, try this game. Ask the children to think of different times when they felt happy, sad, afraid, or angry. Then pretend they are in those situations. Have them try to describe how they feel on the inside and how their faces feel. Feelings of happiness usually mean smiles, laughter, and lightness. Frowns, crying, and heavy feelings are for sadness. Fear is connected to tension, wanting to hide, and a tight feeling in the face. Anger can make you feel like you’re going to explode and causes a snarling look on the face.


Understanding complex feelings 

Emotions such as guilt and shame may be very confusing to children. They may blame themselves for the divorce or the death of a parent. Explain to the children exactly what is happening in their family, and this can help them deal with these emotions. Remind children that it wasn’t their fault. A good discussion about the death or divorce will help children understand the real causes.
Some children are ashamed or embarrassed about living in a single-parent family. Encourage them to look at good things about the family. Remind them of the joy and love and laughter that you still share. Talk with children about positive single-parent families in real life or in books or on TV.


Showing our own emotions 

 Another way to help children understand and deal with their emotions is to let them see how parents cope with theirs. When parents feel sad, ashamed, guilty, or happy, they can talk about how they feel. This lets the child know that it’s okay to have these feelings too. And it shows your children useful ways to deal with them. You might say that you’re feeling sad about things today and then suggest doing something fun that might make you all feel better. By seeing how you respond to these feelings, your children can learn what to do in the same situation.


Thinking about feelings 

 Emotions are not automatic. Different people will feel differently about things. Our emotions are also formed by what we think about different situations. When children are feeling badly about something, encourage them to try to look at it in a different way. The comic showed one child saying not to look only at the bad things, but to see if there were good things as well. There’s a good lesson there.
Especially in the case of shame and guilt, help children to see if these emotions are reasonable. If a child feels like he or she is to blame, ask some very direct questions: “How did you cause this?” Help the child see that guilt doesn’t make sense. By helping children explore their own thinking, they may realize that their thoughts aren’t clear or don’t make sense. By understanding more clearly, children may realize that blaming themselves or being ashamed doesn’t make sense. This may help get rid of these kinds of feelings.


Summary
Children experience a wide range of emotions, from happiness and excitement to anger and disgust. When children are happy, their caregivers encourage their expression of happiness and often join in to share this emotion with them. Yet when they are angry, afraid or disgusted, often children are encouraged to suppress or change their emotions. This is particularly true of the emotion of fear. While parents and caregivers currently employ a variety of strategies to respond to fear in young children, some of these methods may be positioning children in ways that increase their fears or invalidate their feelings of fear altogether. Well-intentioned parents and caregivers may be unaware of the effect that messages such as 'there's nothing to be afraid of' or 'don't worry, you're safe with me', could have on children.




Children's Face Expressions

Trees And Their Emotions (Expressions)

The age of a tree cut close to the ground can be found by counting annual rings from the middle of the stump

to the bark. If the stump is fairly high, add several years to allow for tree growth from ground level to the stump height. To find the age or rate of growth of a tree without cutting it, foresters use a thin hollow auger (increment borer). It is drilled into the tree to its pith, and the rings on the extracted cylindrical core show the age.When favorably situated, trees in young, even aged forests (in which all trees are about the same age) grow fast in height, as if striving to avoid being overshadowed and suppressed. They normally make the best

volume growth in middle age. This is not true for all aged forests (trees varying from small seedlings to

mature or overmature). Here trees in the understory often grow slowly for long periods awaiting release

from crowding. When this occurs through accident or cutting, they begin to make good height and diameter

growth.Upon maturity, tree growth gradually slows down.Overmature trees are less resistant to disease and insects and are therefore a poor risk. Rot frequently increases in old trees more rapidly than volume growth.

This breath is a gift we receive every moment from the plants and trees that provide our oxygen. Feel the gratitude with each conscious breath…I admire them, love them and they pose for me as part of our communication.Their purpose in this lecture is to help you sink into your hearts…not to think but to FEEL…YES! If you begin to drift off, you’ll find that they [the photos] capture your attention and will bring you into your heart…a place of feeling and connecting emotionally.They are provided in order to evoke emotions. They are paired with poems and quotes by masters of imagery and well-know naturalists…people who themselves were profoundly inspired by the inherent Love that runs through all of Nature.




When a leaf is plucked from a tree, does it hurt the tree?

The word hurt may mean injure, or it maymeanpain.Theplucking of a leaf does not pain the tree, because a tree does not feel anything that we should call pain. The reason is that a tree doesn’t have a nervous system. But when a living green leaf is plucked from a tree, the living cells where the break is made must feel something, only if it is a very faint feeling. However, we must not think that it is in the least like pain, or that it is possible to be cruel to a tree, as one might be cruel to a cat. When a dead leaf falls from a tree, the tree can not feel. This is because a layer of something like cork has been formed at the base of the leaf, so the leaf is no longer part of the living tree.If hurt means injure or harm, that is really another question. The leaf exists for the life of the tree. It serves to feed the tree, it breathes for the tree, and helps to remove from it the excess water which the roots have sucked up. Of course a tree has many leaves, and so to pluck one cannot hurt the tree much. However, if we were to strip all the leaves off a tree in the sprig, we should soon find that it has harmed the tree. But when winds blows the leaves off a tree in the autumn, the tree is not harmed, for it has already taken what it wanted out of the leaves, and has no use for leaves until the next year.

                                       




                       Sketches On Trees Face Expressions

Happy & Scared 

Scared & Confuse

Angry 

Childrens Facial Expressions

Scared & Shock

Scared And Sad Towards Human