Responsive Wall
Responsive Wall aims to explore the potencial of the TOMI device to incorporate an artistical dimension, which goes beyond its utility. It intends that there is a breakage of the boundaries between the real image and the constructed image, so that the interface promotes an extension of the human body. For such end, the user’s presence and gesture operate as an expressive and communicative instrument on the interaction between man and computer. The gestures are captured through a video camera incorporated into the TOMI’s, which, in turn, interpret and respond to the gestures.
Functioning:
TOMI stands in its normal state of functioning and the Responsive Wall programme is activated in all devices, simultaneously, for a lenght of time. From the moment it is activated, it presents two modes of interaction, an individual component and a colective one (each one with 3 min.), following from one to another automatically. The user has always the possibility of exiting the programme, in case he wants to use TOMI for his conventional purposes of research. If that happens, the programme is again activated once the first component restarts.
Individual component:
1. Captures the body silhouette in movement and transforms it into vertical lines of various colors.
Individual component:
2. The user’s movements form geometrical shapes, and while to the movements done upwards corresponds a rectangular pattern, to the movements done downwards corresponds a sequence of balls and to the lateral movements a color gradation.
Colective component, of two users (one TOMI communicates with another TOMI):
3. Captures the two users’ silhouette simultaneously. When these intersect, one’s reflected image overlays on another user’s image, enabling to see who is on the other side.
Colective component, of two users (one TOMI communicates with another TOMI):
4. Draws a texture of horizontal lines in constant undulating movement. When the users touch each other, the lines multiply in that intersection area and a color explosion is formed.
4. Draws a texture of horizontal lines in constant undulating movement. When the users touch each other, the lines multiply in that intersection area and a color explosion is formed.
