Functional Requirements

• User Interface: An easy-to-use graphical user interface that allows

  • Choose the movie to be played

  • Display thumbnail of the video

  • Video player pops up to start movie playing

 

• Text Processing:

  • While downloading or loading the movie, the closed captioning or subtitle file is also loaded into the backend for processing

  • Effects corresponding to the situation in ‘[]’ of the closed captioning are conveyed to the jacket.

  • TIME: effects have to be executed in a very tight range of time

    • ms of time difference will lead to effects that are out of sync with the video

  • ACCURACY: accurately analyzing and tagging words in the closed captions to output effects that correspond to appropriate actions/emotions

  • In a long term goal, we will also attempt to analyze the emotion of the subtitles of the movie to reflect in the jacket experience.

 

• Connectivity:

  • Wired connection (USB) then wireless connection (Bluetooth)

  • Data received: which component, duration, intensity - its correspondence to the effects we mentioned.

 

• Mechanical working of jacket components:

  • Have sensors and actuators to accommodate the different kind of experiences. As of now, looking to incorporate:

    • Heat/Cool

    • Vibration: Different groupings of actuators will lead to different effects discussed ahead.

    • Read and analyze different emotions from subtitles and intitiate reaction through jacket.

  • Powered by Battery

  • Randomize location of punch and shot