Introdcution

This chapter describes my earlier technical studies, focusing on how augmented media shapes engaged coordinative social play. These experiments involved a series of facilitated scenarios utilizing computationally tangible objects, incorporating both sound and visual feedback. The approach we explored in these experiments is informed by the "perceptually-guided sensorimotor approach” (Gibson, 1979), which is understood as an ecological approach to perception and action. The results from these experiments displayed a positive trend, indicating that this approach allows individuals to spontaneously establish meaningful interactions with others, facilitating acquaintance and coordination awareness in a casual social context.

Idea 1

Intensifying social relations by creating a poetic and visual response within a multi-user context.

Idea 2

Exploring embodied social play through augmented artifacts using auditory feedback associated with a series of gestures, such as spinning, toasting, tilting, and shaking.

System Design

The system includes a Neopixel light stripe, conductive tapes, an IR LED, an ESP-8266FX board, a LiPo battery, and a customized electronic board featuring resistors, transistors, and a switch. The goal is to closely mimic the size and handling of real champagne glasses. Data sensing from the conductive tape and overhead camera was transmitted to Max MSP through serial communication, where it was processed to create visual ripple effects using mathematical algorithms.

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Figure 1: Customized electronic board design for ESP8266 by Asseiged Kidane.

The system’s features include:  

  •  It enables participants to interact with the champagne glass through continuously changing colorful ripple waves, which track their movements while using the glasses. 

  • The glasses incorporate illumination through the use of conductive tape installed on the glass's surface. When participants hold their glasses and touch the conductive tape, the other participant’s glasses light up. This design is intended to enhance relational awareness among participants by creating a concept of mated objects. 

Source: https://vimeo.com/362645645

  • Recording voice and listening

  • Diagram of the sounding glass with embedded microcomputer, sensor and speaker

  • High-table social setup

    High-table social setup

  • Modle for 3D printing

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