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n CHI 2012 INTERACTIVITY | COMMONS (EXHIBIT HALL 4)
INTERACTIVITY - EXPLORATIONS AND RESEARCH
Interactivity is your chance to fully engage at a personal level by
touching, squeezing, hearing or even smelling interactive visions
for the future: they come as prototypes, demos, artworks, design
experiences as well as inspirational technologies. Interactivity is
also an alternative to the traditional textual format at CHI to
disseminate advancements in the field. Interactivity promotes and
provokes discussion about the role of technology by actively
engaging attendees one-by-one.
There are two types of Interactivity exhibits at CHI this year:
Interactivity Explorations exhibits present cultural applications and
explorations of future technologies. This is an opportunity to
experience digital art and interactive experiences that ask questions,
inspire reflection, and engage your intellect and imagination.
Interactivity Research exhibits present an exciting collection of
hands-on research demonstrations and prototypes. This is an
opportunity to experience new interaction techniques, systems,
and early concepts.
Some of the interactivity exhibits (Limited Time Collection -
identified on the Commons Map) are only available on Tuesday
afternoon from 15:50 to 19:00, during the Interactivity Highlight,
and again on Wednesday during the lunch break. These presenters
will be stationed at their exhibits throughout these times.
The rest of the exhibits (Permanent Collection - identified on the
Commons Map) are available from the Monday evening reception
through the Thursday morning break. These presenters will be
stationed at their exhibits at various times from Monday through
Thursday (see the detail in the schedule below). The Permanent
Collection will remain open throughout the conference, including
when presenters are not present, as many of these exhibits can still
be experienced by attendees without author support or guidance.
Monday
18:00-20:00 Permanent Collection open
Presenters present entire time
Tuesday
10:50 - 19:00 Permanent Collection open
Presenters present from 15:50-19:00
15:50 - 19:00 Limited Time Collection open
Presenters present 15:50 - 19:00 (entire time)
Wednesday
10:50 - 19:00 Permanent Collection open
Presenters present from 10:50 - 11:30, 12:50 - 14:30,
15:50 - 16:30 (during breaks)
Thursday
12:50 - 14:30 Limited Time Collection open
All presenters present
10:50 - 11:30 Permanent Collection open
Presenters present 10:50 - 11:30
Closed at 11:30
n INTERACTIVITY - EXPLORATIONS
Interactivity
Murmur Study i300
Christopher Baker, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Murmur Study is an art installation that examines the rise of micromessaging
technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status
updates. One might describe these messages as a type of digital
small talk. But unlike face to face conversations, these fleeting
thoughts are accumulated, archived and digitally indexed by
corporations, governments and research institutions. While the
long-term impact of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer
volume of publicly accessible, personal, and often emotional
expressions should give us pause.
HWD Corporation - A Collection of 100 Re-wired
Joysticks from the Last 30 Years of Gaming Culture i301
Roger Ibars, Microsoft Research Asia, China
HWD (Hard-wired devices) Corporation is a collection of 100
electronic devices, each consisting of a travel alarm clock
connected to a different game controller selected from the last 30
years of gaming culture. For each device a new interaction has
been crafted by hard-wiring the functions of the alarm clock onto
the digital switches of the controller. As a result, the basic
functionalities of the alarm clock – set up time, set up alarm, light
on and off, alarm off - can be controlled with the joysticks. This
project is a journey through the history of game controllers, to
celebrate both its revolutionary successes and remarkable failures.
Artistic Robot Please Smile i302
Hye Yeon Nam, Changhyun Choi, Georgia Tech, USA
This installation explains how people interpret artistic robots as
more than mere machines in the theory of intentionality and
introduces the implementation of the artistic robot, Please Smile,
which consists of a series of robotic skeleton arms that gesture in
response to a viewer’s facial expressions.
MelodicBrush: A Cross-Modal Link between Ancient
and Digital Art Forms i303
Michael Xuelin Huang, Will W. W. Tang, Kenneth W.K. Lo,
C. K. Lau, Grace Ngai, Stephen Chan, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
MelodicBrush is a novel cross-modal musical system that connects
two ancient art forms: Chinese ink-brush calligraphy and Chinese
music. Our system endows the process of calligraphy writing with
a novel auditory representation in a natural and intuitive manner to
create a novel artistic experience. The writing effect is simulated as
though the user were writing on an infinitely large piece of paper
viewed through a viewport. The real-time musical generation
effects are motivated by principles of metaphoric congruence and
statistical music modeling
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