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Inversus - The Sensitive Machine

Authors:
Luís Leite
Verónica Orvalho

Keywords: HCI, audiovisual instrument, DIY, user experience, interactive installations

Abstract:
Inversus is a digital interactive installation that explores the relationship between user actions with common objects: lamps, speakers and fans. It is an interactive machine that shifts the conceptual understanding a user traditionally has about a specific object, making people wonder: why should a lamp be used only to illuminate? In fact, lamps, speakers or fans are commonly used as output interfaces, imagine now, what would happen if we turn the output into an input interface? This machine explores an inversion on this relationship by using lamps as light sensors, speakers as pressure sensors and fans as blowing sensors.

Pages: 69 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-382-7

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015