Blendie, By Kelly Dobson, MIT Media Lab. Blendie is an exploration of ways people can interact with machines using behavior instead of buttons. The blender is turned on by growling at it to match the sound you want it to make.
Nintendo Wii is a way of interacting with technology using gestures and behaviors, not keys and buttons.
Social Mobiles, Ideo. These mobile phones explore ways of communication that go beyond speaking into the phone. The designers were interested in changing the way people behave with their phones in public spaces.
The Tango by Richard Ellison and BlinkTwice is the first communication device that uses tone of voice to give users control over how they sound to others.
Kiss Communicator, IDEO. Kiss Communicator is for couples who are at a distance. It is activated when one partner blows into it and a pattern appears on the other's device that is only visible for a moment, like a kiss.
Biosensors recognize patterns in the body such as heart rate and blood pressure and they can be used to provide clues to emotional conditions.
Somiya Says was designed by Joanna VanDaalen and Somiya Shabban to empower Somiya to share her personality, because people often assume she isn't intelligent because her speech is unclear. Graham Pullin writes "The short term utterance is also a long term badge— a label of Somiya's own devising, to express her individuality and identity, rather than any stereotype associated with her impairment"
These images served as Marc and my visual inspiration as we began designing our installation.
