Hospital

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Class: SD5523 – Embedded Interaction Workshop
Date: April 2010
Subject Leader: Michael Fox
Tutor: Catherine Hu
Students: Aileen Halim, Liu Chenhuan, Eric Siu

This project nourishes interaction between an interactive interior installation and people's activity in a hospital waiting room.

A field of long thin fibers(tentacle) with a metal piece on its tip that hang on the ceiling will give real-time response driven bya sensor embedded in the chair that measure the user's breathing rate also the duration of their sitting time.

Different breathing pattern would lead different form of motion created in the tentacle field and the sitting time alter the growth of tentacles downwards slowly, if more user comes into play, the field would turn the whole ceiling alive by slow swinging the tentacles.

The environment help user to take away their stressfulness of waiting in the hospital by engaging them into the relationship of the moving tentacles and their breathing rate.

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