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Palpable City Eindhoven

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In Palpable City, participants don a specially equipped vest that generates vibrotactile patterns in response to thier location in the city.

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hugh_person | 14 November 2007
Tags: palpable city tactile display imageradio experimental interfaces

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Description

Palpable City is a site specific installation where participants wear a vest outfitted with a GPS, some custom hardware and software, and an array of vibrotactile actuators (vibrating pager motors) that are sewn into the vest. As they walk, they encounter varying vibrotactile patterns--changes in rhythm, location or intensity--dependent upon their location. The tactile 'textures' change in relation to the spatial form of their immediate environment. As they walk, and the shap

Setup instructions

WARNING: This mscape requires custom hardware to be experienced properly. I used the sounds from mscape as a signal to tell a BASIC Stamp how to control an array of vibrating motors (sewn into a vest). Listening to the sounds will be unpleasant, at best.

Credits

Erik Conrad - for ImageRadio 2007, Eindhoven, Netherlands

http://peripheralfocus.net/palpable_city.html

MSIN: ABA0000119

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Comments

  1. "Cool! Can you provide more information on the implementation of the vest? A link to a project website? It sounds like a fun project." goddip | Nov 15, 2007 | 01:33 AM
  2. "Thanks! There is more info @ http://peripheralfocus.net/palpable_city.html and a virtual tour @ http://peripheralfocus.net/palpablecity_Eindhoven_map.html I am still working on the documentation, but if anyone has questions I'm not afraid to share. " hugh_person | Nov 15, 2007 | 06:29 PM