Interactive floors + tables

Just raiding the exibition part of the processing site, but hey, it's research.

the first floor i found was Body Navigation by Ole Kristensen (Spring 2008)


they're playing pong, which went a bit crazy but is still awesome.

It's a performance piece, designed to react to the movement of dancers, so it's quite artsy and different from what i'm wanting to do, but it's responsive to the dancers movments in a quite natural way which is something i want in my piece. Infrared blobtracking was used to track the dancers movements, and the graphics were drawn by open gl in processing.

I've also been looking into interactive tables, two of which that i've found track object placement.

The London College of Fashion graduate show for 2007 and 2008 featured interactive tables by moving brands.

When a students card is place on the table, it brings up photos of their work. By turning the card you can scroll through their work.







Each card has a symbol or tag on the back like the one above, which is tracked by the program. Processing an reACTvision were used.

Another interactive table i've found is mæve by werk5.




The table was created to create "visual and tangible access to the social and intellectual networks behind architectural projects". I'm not quite sure what that means but i like how the objects placed on the table create connections between one another. It adds another element of play to the already tactile experience.



The table was created with Processing, reACTvision, and Gestalt.