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Mirage: A Real-time Affection Meter via Collaborative Memory Creation and Navigation
Authors:
Lyn Chao-ling Chen
Yi-ping Hung
Keywords: Affective Computing; Collaborative Narrative; Human Facial Expression Recognition; Interactive Device; Locative Media; Memory; Psycogeography
Abstract:
This paper presents an interdisciplinary study on social science and computing technology to build a novel interactive device Mirage toward presenting the collaborative memories of a place. With the support of social science theory, the locative media builds a strong connection between the participants for sharing similar memories at the same place. Using the metaphor of magic crystal ball, we construct the Mirage coordinate by system calibration to obtain precise 3D directions and distances of hand motions. With the aid of computing technologies, participants use their hands to manipulate and to reverse the memory axis intuitively, and to control the speed of memory stream with the accurate hands positions. Through memory navigation, they contact with each other by affection communication and create the virtual social relationship between them. During the touching process, they gradually turn the world into their world with self-memories through memory creation, and their self-conscious be enhanced. Besides, the experience of attending the digital art exhibition helps us to attract the aesthetic people to be involved in the experiment that raises the diversity and quality of collected data. We also design the affection computation method for analysis the affection amplification effect between the participants, and the experiment proves the interesting social factor influence which we proposed in this paper.
Pages: 38 to 44
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: July 22, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4162
ISBN: 978-1-61208-220-2
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012