Playful rocksalt system
Hiroki Hill Kobayashi, Kana Muramatsu, Junya Okuno, Kazuhiko W. NAKAMURA, Akio Fujiwara, Kaoru Saito · 2015
Interactions with nature, such as experiencing the unexpected encounters with wildlife in a forest, can imprint the beauty of nature in our memories. In this context, this paper presents an experimental interface of such non-verbal interaction for HCI application designs through an imaginable interaction with nature by a Playful Rocksalt system. In order to make the experience, this study achieves the goal through two subsystes, Panorama-viewer of forest and Remote animal sensing. The former is an application by which users can look out over the forest landscape in all directions with a gyro-sensor inside PDA. The latter is a virtual system that allows users living in remote urban areas to interact with wild deer in a forest in real time. This novel design shows users how to realize a forest experience through the in their hands. This paper presented the Playful Rocksalt System by introducing interfaces and related discussion.