Tangible Users Interfaces - Final Project Progress Report

THE GLOWING PUPPET:AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGSFarley Gwazda, Seung-wan Hong, Elisa Oreglia

THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGSThe 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 ones 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 FEELINGS1. Simplifying the scenarios- individual puppets dont 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

Cashmere is comforting and inspires cuddles

Chickens made of semi-soft plastic are a perfect outlet for anger and stress, Goal: to create a puppet made of materials that support natural behaviors and reactions

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 FEELINGSNow what?continue to test the different materials with a few more people, then build a mixed-material puppet prototypeObserving participant

THE GLOWING PUPPET: AN INTERACTIVE MIRROR OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE FEELINGSWizard 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 FEELINGSOutput: Multiple emotional expressions through java 3D

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