Title
Bubble Talk: Open-source Interactive Art Toolkit for Metaphor of Modern Digital Chat
Abstract
In this art project, the ephemeral and intangible aspects of human's communication are represented by soap-bubble. The shapeless, intangible, and insubstantial speech - once the speech is shouted out through speaker's mouth it disappears unless someone hears it immediately, or even it is heard, the message will be forgotten as time goes - is transferred to a semi-tangible yet still fleeting bubble. The bubble machine that we created provides person-to-person and person-to-space interaction. The machine has a iris mechanism that varies its outlet size reacting to the participant's speech pattern as if it tries to talk something. Once the participant pauses, the machine blows out various sizes of bubble. The floating bubble represents the subtle state of a message from interpersonal communications that lies in the middle of real and digital world. Also, it creates a certain delay until it pops, which is a metaphor of our behavior that we often delay to send out text-messages through chatting apps. We believe that anyone can be an artist. By open-sourcing the details of fabrication process and materials, we want to encourage people to build the machine, interact with it at any locations, and use and modify it as a art tool for realizing their own ideas whether it is for art or not.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3294109.3301271
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
bubble, ephemeral, interactive art, open-source, voice
Interpersonal communication,Computer science,Interactive art,Human–computer interaction,Ephemeral key,Multimedia,Metaphor,Bubble
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6196-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kyung Yun Choi102.03
Hiroshi Ishii286661572.08