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Interactive Forms
2.1
Blobulous
Blobulous (Fig. 1) allows participants to interact through projected avatars, blogs of
dots, which react to their movement and body signal.The participant's heart rate is
mapped to the color of her avatar[8, 9]. Wireless heart rate sensors are used to capture
and send heart rate data from users and a ZigBee network to handle communication
between sensors and the avatars.
Fig. 1.
Blobulous
Fig. 2.
Yang Sheng
2.2
Yang Sheng
Yang Sheng is an ancient Chinese Philosophy to maintain and improve one's health
though daily activities. Tai Chi is one of the common meditation practices which
originates in China and is still popular today, but not among the younger generation.
To attract the young to this tradition, this installation uses computer vision to track the
movements of the Tai Chi players and visualize their movements as well as “chi”, the
life energy, with a floating sphere controlled by the movements (Fig. 2).
Fig. 4.
Strijp-T-ogether
Fig. 3.
Replication
