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Tangible Users Interfaces - Final Project Progress Report. Farley Gwazda, Seung-wan Hong, Elisa Oreglia. THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS. THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS.
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Tangible Users Interfaces - Final Project Progress Report Farley Gwazda, Seung-wan Hong, Elisa Oreglia THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS The Glowing Puppet encourages participants to participatory theater workshops to express their collective feelings and opinions and to bring home a reminder of the workshop. The puppets family is composed of "individual puppets" that each participant uses to input her opinions/feelings and one bigger "central puppet" that acts as a mediator and representative of the collective input. Small puppets then become property of the workshop participants, and can be used to express one’s feeling through tactile input and to see them displayed on the puppet through light/sound output.
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS 1. Simplifying the scenarios - individual puppets don’t act as diaries, straight-forward i/o system - collective puppet scenarios limited to yes/no and to Greek chorus 2. Input optimization exploring different materials/shapes and their emotional mapping for the individual puppets 3. Output change the collective puppet into a screen with 3-D output
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Goal: to create a puppet made of materials that support natural behaviors and reactions… Cashmere is comforting and inspires cuddles Chickens made of semi-soft plastic are a perfect outlet for anger and stress,
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Small soft elephants are cuddly Although a minority of people beat them up, too A Christmas ornament with a polyester gown repels people and makes them want to throw it across the room
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Now what? continue to test the different materials with a few more people, then build a mixed-material puppet prototype Observing participant
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Wizard of Oz testing with prototype puppets Made of different combinations of materials, sizes and shapes
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 平 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 愛 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 喜 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 樂 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 哀 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 怒 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive 太 怒 Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Positive Negative 0
THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGS Output: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D Texture change according to input types and strength Positive Negative 0