Shachar Oz : resume & work שחר עוז: תיק עבודות

The Drawer - Short film

2011-06-11T22:22:00.000-07:00

Short movie based on the Matrix's Plot. Only with socks.
Miko the sock tries to figure out what is the Drawer. Termious the sock shows him.
Like any other good student film, someone dies in the end...

In hebrew but can be partly understood with watching only.

concept by: Sarit Hayat, Ori Grundshtein, Hila Amit and myself
created at: January 2007

Some extra shots from the shooting days:

Miko takes the control

me playing Miko. Loosing it.

Poli Ester eats a Donut on a break.

Augmented Reality Business Card - your portfolio inside your card!

2011-02-11T14:46:00.000-08:00

Concept:
Have your business card present extra information about yourself to complete the picture about who you are and what can you do.

Use-cases:
- Real-time portfolio: show-off with your previous work.
- Show yourself and your agenda: record yourself on video or sound.
- Stay connected: link to your websites and social networks.

What can you do with your card:
- Add many types of media: video, photo, sound, Swf animation. In the future you could add 3D objects.
- Define the way your users will interact with the card. See all available options below.
- Each media can have one web link.
- Spread and embed the application wherever you want.

See it in action:

1. Print one or more of my business cards. each presents different example of design and interaction.

2. Scroll down to the application, and allow it to access your camera. Connect a webcam if you don't have any.

4. Hold one card in front of the camera.
5. Watch and interact with the content: videos, images, SWFs and sounds.

if you wish to have a card of your own- please contact me on:
shachar . oz @ gmail . com

created at: 2009

User interaction types:
1. Static Cube: Cube sits on top of the marker and glued to it. Each face of the cube can have content (image or video). When user rotates the marker they could see the 5 faces of the cube.
2. Spinning Cube (by marker): Cube sits on top of the marker. Each face of the cube can have content (image or video). When user moves the marker, the cube rotates by itself and the user could see all 6 faces of the cube.

3. Spinning Cube (by mouse): Cube sits on top of the marker. Each face of the cube can have content (image or video). When user moves the mouse, the cube rotates by itself and the user could see all 6 faces of the cube.
4. Rotating Cube: Cube sits on top of the marker and automatically rotates, allowing the user to see all 6 faces of the cube.
5. One Plane Portfolio: Each content sits on top of the marker separately and glued to it. When the user moves the marker to the sides of the screen, the content is replaced. Can present any number of images and videos.

Lecture: The Future Of Augmented Reality Gaming & Hands-on AR In Flash

2010-12-25T06:19:00.000-08:00

on 23 of December, 2010 I have talked at the Israeli Flash&Flex group conference about the current vibes and future directions of Augmented Reality gaming. Moreover, I have released an open source code of functional AR flash application and thoroughly explained its code. The action-script developers have learned about the technology, how it influences UI and game design and also how to create one of their own.

Covered subjects:

1. what is augmented reality? what types of AR are there from the technical point of view? what do one need in order to see an augmented reality and to develop one?

2. Limitations and advantages of augmented reality is flash.

3. The augmented reality user interface. how AR influences the creation of UI? what types of UI have already been tried before?

4. AR gaming and influences of game design. how can we design our game to make it most suitable to the advantages and limitation of the technology? Example games and game designs.

5. Creating your first AR in Flash. how does the 3D world works in Flash? what are the basic elements in creating and programming a 3D world? I have released a fully-functional AR application and explained how to continue from there: how to add more objects, interaction and GUI elements.

Lecture: Using Augmented Reality & video games inside your classroom

2010-12-10T07:21:00.000-08:00

On December 9th, 2010, I have presented the AR technology and video games to the Information & Communication Technology, a course meant to improve the tech-accessibility skills for teachers and educators at Mofet institute.

The teachers have understood the new technologies and learned about the role of the teacher in the "tech-classroom".

The lecture goals were:

1. Lowering the hesitation and fear from technology at teachers and empowering them with tools allowing them to examine and test video games.

2. Showing the similarity between a good educational content and a good video game: gradual learning, continuous challenge, giving the feeling of "I can", and FUN.

3. There is no substitute for the teacher. Technology is just a tool.

4. Showing that technology exists. The ball is in the educators court. They have to show the industry where and what to develop.

Here is the Prezi presentation I used during the lecture.

Augmented Reality & Games in Education on Prezi

update:

here is a concept map that was drawn by one of the listeners, Lizi Cohen

ARIE - Augmented Reality Instructions Editor

2010-05-07T01:40:00.000-07:00

concept:

ARIE changes the way we work with tools in the home and office environments. it solves us the dependency from opening the instructions manual or call a technician when wishing to operate a machine.

ARIE is a real-time instructions manual, activated while working on a specific instrument or tool, and more important- the information is presented exactly when and where we need it.

ARIE was presented at several conferences by now:

Synthetic Reality 2010, Israel

for longer description about the system please contact me on mail.

this is one video example of the UI. it is not the current version.

created by: Shachar Oz and Gady Yosef
created at: February 2008
first version released at: January 2010

Musikritical

2010-04-21T10:38:00.000-07:00

concept:

conceptual usage for an interaction design project we developed. the music changes itself automatically in direct connection with the food served. moving the salt and peper changes the volume. the project deals with the combination of food and music.

created by: Alex Lupayev and me

created at: January 2008

ROSETA flowers - Interactive Design Project

2010-04-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

concept:

Roseta's flowers deals with the interpersonal relationships inside a group of distant friends. Every given moment the flower pots visualize the strength of the relationship. Roseta's flowers encourage the group members to take an action in favor of the group. That very action together with its consequence provides the members with a feeling of bondage, the presence of the group, even if it is scattered physically.

created at: february-april 2008

with: Eyal David & Ariela Alt

How does it work?

Each group member holds a pot with a flower inside, which is what we call a "Roseta's flower". The unique pots are able to move from a normal position to a "dropped" position. All pots are identical in size and position. When one reacts, the others make the exact same move at the same time.
Roseta's flowers are treated with watering. When one Roseta's flower is watered, all the flower pots will rise a bit higher. When one Roseta's flower is neglected, all the flower pots will never reach the normal position.

References:
"Sculpturing with technology" by Ofri Ilani at Mouse (Hebrew)
Live interview on TV at Youtube (Hebrew)
at news page inside the HIT website (Hebrew)

Green-Fields, Instructional Short Movie

2009-05-23T05:49:00.000-07:00

concept: short, funny & instructive movie that explains how to use the new free fitness facilities scattered all over Israel by Green-Fields.
the script, filming, editing and lighting was made by Sarit Hayat, Ori Grundshtein, hila Amit and Myself. Green-Fields company has no hand in the making of the movie.

created at: January, 2007

De-Click Game v2.0: learn spelling

2009-05-06T11:26:00.000-07:00

concept: further development of the first version. read discription of gameplay there.

the improvements made in this version are:

1. player must click the letters by the order they are in the word itself.

2. difficulty level affects the ammount of assistance the player receives during the game.

3. letters are visible to the player during the game. a correct click causes a feedback.

4. the gameplay is better explained.

next version improvements:

1. players could load new images.

2. change gameplay options.

3. get statistics about your game: how many mistakes you had, which letters, etc.

4. score will be influenced by the proportion between the entire amount of clicks and the amount of correct clicks made by the player.

created at: may, 2009

"Living in the Holy Land", Educational Video Game

2009-04-23T03:00:00.000-07:00

concept:
making the learning the bible more fun by playing the history of the biblical stories instead of reading it in the classroom. the game is a role play adventure game, where the student is playing characters from the biblical story and face the same problems and issues they needed to face. Living in the Holy Land is rich in full 3D graphics, similar quality to AAA known video games, in order to allow the student see every small detail in the biblical world. the game stages are parallel to bible chapters, in order to be easily adapted into the school's curriculum. learning the story is not the only thing the game teaches. a more thorough paper will be translated into English soon.

created at: February 2009 (project in process)

interaction design hands on! - exhibition movie

2008-11-19T12:13:00.000-08:00

concept: interaction design is one of the hottest fields of interest nowadays. at HIT institute, an academic course called interaction design hands on!, and in short IDHO, was opened two years ago, setting the goal to confront the students with this important field. the students were taken from different backgrounds: industrial and product designers, electricity engineers and learning technology men.

this short film introduces the final exhibition of the march-August 2008 course, when i took part in. here a link to our final website, presenting all projects.

created at: August 2008

Data Representation of survey's results

2008-09-16T07:55:00.000-07:00

concept: a visual representation of a survey's results which checked the differences between three academic departments in HIT academic institute in Israel. The survey's subject was of web and computer usage goals and habits among the students.

created at: may 2007

Simple Jigsaw Pazel Maker in Flash

2008-06-10T16:07:00.000-07:00

concept: a simple jigsaw pazel maker. the only thinng left to do is to add the pazel pieces into the right place. an FLA file will be uploaded soon (as soon as i finish the usage instructions).

created at: 11 June 2008

professional code finder : costumized search engine

2008-05-21T13:48:00.000-07:00

concept: create a professional search engine for codes on the web. this engine is ment to find real and effective help in any question you have. just type in the problem, and then set the language you write in.

created at: October 2007

Learning with games : costumized search engine

2008-05-21T13:24:00.000-07:00

idea: create a dynamic and interactive resource environment based on Lib2.0 and Learning2.0 concepts.

we have chosen the field area of learning with games and how to combine these two fields.

result: an iGoogle group environment, which included unique RSS collection, a couple of customized search engines, and more apps and gadgets.
this search engine has been developed since. you are most invited to use it. its free of course.

created at: September 2007

created with: Yuval Shafriri, Ori Grundshtein, Ofir Rosenberg, Yuval Alis

word design

2008-05-21T12:51:00.000-07:00

created at: December 2006

caracteristics of interpersonal communication in VLE (virtual learning environment): Essay

2008-05-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

concept: summary of ideas in that subject. not an academic research.

created at: January 2007

the existence of the Libarary in the digital age- is it justified? Essay

2008-05-21T11:49:00.000-07:00

concept: an interview with an israeli libararian + observation + results. not an academic research.

created at: November 2006

created with: Noa Levi

check an email application

2008-05-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

created at: October 2007

my first pong game

2008-05-21T11:04:00.000-07:00

created at: November 2007

my first memory card game

2008-05-21T10:59:00.000-07:00

concept: simple memory game

created at: December 2007

how to create multiple choice question in Adobe Flash- guiding movie

2008-05-21T10:30:00.000-07:00

concept: there are many guide movies about Flash in english but a few in hebrew. this movie takes the user, hand-in-hand, through all the steps they need to make in order to have a multiple choice question. it is ment to remind an instructional technology developers this issue.

created at: March 2008

program: viewlet builder

Harnessing the power of games into education: Article presentation

2008-05-21T10:04:00.000-07:00

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concept: presents the main concepts in the article of Squire and Jenkins about "Harnessing the power of games into education".

created at: March 2008

Voice Over IP - what is it?

2008-05-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

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concept: Presents the main concepts in Voice Over IP technology and its future implications.

created at: January 2007

created with: Miri Hay, Sarit Hayat, Adi Hen

interactive environments for the special needs - research

2008-05-18T14:08:00.000-07:00

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concept: research on the interactive environments exist to assist special needs society: physical disabilities, rehabilitation and learning disabilities.

created at: february 2007

created with: Yaniv Aroch, Gadi Yosef, Orly Edry

why water group to drops? surface tension of the water

2008-05-18T13:50:00.001-07:00

concept: originally made for 9th grade siences class (with some background in molecules). the goal was to explain about the surface tension of the water and how it is created. additional educational value: the way water molecules arrange themselves.

created at: May 2007

in english:

in hebrew:

100% for me- short movie (in hebrew)

2008-05-18T13:47:00.000-07:00

5 min movie

will be added soon

here is the script of the film (in hebrew)

created at: January 2007

created with: Yaniv Aroch, Roni Rozin

composition: dynamic and static

2008-05-18T13:14:00.000-07:00

concept: this computer drawing was a part of an assignment in Visual Literacy course. the goal was to make a dynamic composition and a static one with the same shape.

created at: November 2007

program: Macromedia freehand mx

"mankind is the virus of the world"

2008-05-18T12:49:00.000-07:00

the idea that the mankind is setting the grave for itself is well-known.
here are some pieces of work we made using photoshop editing and photography to present this idea.

created with: Yael Kaftory

created at: February, 2007

kids 4 kids - create educational softwares at IBM

2008-05-13T05:05:00.000-07:00

IBM estublished the "kids 4 kids" project in goal of creating educational softwares

i am instructing, together with two more colleagues, a group

De Click Game: learn spelling

2008-05-12T16:58:00.002-07:00

concept: the main goal is to teach young kids (ages 3-6) how to spell. it tries to use a simple menus and fun gameplay in order to attract players and motivate them. the player has to click the letters in the name of the animal presented to him and reach a specific number of total clicks. reaching that number will stop the score from dropping, and setting it to the player's score.

the gameplay was inspired by the "click the spacebar game".

created at: January 2008

Cubic Tale animations

2008-05-12T16:58:00.001-07:00

part A:

part B:

storyboard (part B):

created: april 2007

MusiKritical: combine music and food

2008-05-12T16:54:00.000-07:00

Concept: an interaction design project that deals with the connection of food and music and tries to combine the two. the music changes itself automatically in direct connection with the food served. moving the salt and peper changes the volume. this works with the RFID technology using a Flash platform and Phidgets chips. the project was created during the course IDHO 2008 (interaction design hands on!) at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. here's a link to the IDHO 2008 course website for more similar projects.

date: March, 2008

Skype Chair

2008-05-12T13:08:00.000-07:00

the skype chair sets a more intuitive interface with the program. just lean backwards to answer incoming calls, lift your legs to make a call and more. it is all working...

in cooperation with Eyal David

Teaching the visual literacy in the digital age

2008-05-12T12:54:00.001-07:00

this website was developed from zero as a presentation of a new concept in teaching and learning the visual literacy for Dr. Shlomo Lee Abrahamov, teacher in many schools and universities in israel.
Dr. Abrahamov teaches the visual literacy in a unique way in israel: he is using the web tools, such as forums and other collaborative tools, to enhance the learning process.

the website had 3 earlier versions and in total of 300 man-hours of work. 3-4 people were involved in the process for about one year.