Mirage: A Real-time Affection Meter via Collaborative Memory Creation and Navigation
Lyn Chao-ling Chen, Yi‐Ping Hung · 2012
This paper presents an interdisciplinary study on social science and computing technology to build a novel interactive device Mirage toward presenting the col laborative memories of a place. With the support of social sci ence theory, the locative media builds a strong connection betwe en the participants for sharing similar memories at the sa me place. Using the metaphor of magic crystal ball, we constr uct the Mirage coordinate by system calibration to obtain p recise 3D directions and distances of hand motions. With the aid of computing technologies, participants use their hand s 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 qua lity of collected data. We also design the affection comput ation method for analysis the affection amplification eff ect between the participants, and the experiment proves the int eresting social factor influence which we proposed in this p aper.