IMAGE SENSE | Motors and Music | CIID | 2015
Team : Shruti KNR , Liliana L,Manu D
During this course, we were introduced to the science behind motorized haptic technologies and dynamic tangible interactions.
The team focused on creating a device which enables people who are deprived of sight to experience visual moments.
How might we empower the visually impaired people to perceive the world which is visual ?
Imagine the ability to feel the visual aspects of a surrounding environment through haptic feedback of images, which resonate in sound
We created Image Sense - an exploration in the field of haptics,composed of different motion components.A plank attached to a slider ,which holds a sensro and reads information out of images.
The Plank designed by Bill Verplank and a Slider with pressure sensitivity.
For instance, a mountain chain would make one feel the peaks and valleys through an increasing and decreasing force that one can feel in the reading unit/haptic controller.
How it works?
It combines the sense of touch with auditory feedback.A plank attached to a slider ,which holds a sensor.It combines sense of touch with auditory and visual feedback.Every picture creates a different haptic resonance,based on the captured motive.
First Prototype
Second Prototype where we hand separated the Plank and Slider.
Assembling the mockup.
This device can be operated by two people. The second person just needs to simply press the button (Force Sensitive Resistor), which allows the users to flip through different images. This way two people can create their own sound scope with various tonalities and resistances that each image produces.
