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Synesthetic Dice: Sensors, Actuators, And Mappings

Human-Computer Interaction 2023-01-30 v1

Abstract

How bright can you cry? How loud does the sun shine? We developed a multisensory and multimodal tool, the Loaded Dice, for use in co-design workshops to research the design space of IoT usage scenarios. The Loaded Dice incorporate the principle of a technical synesthesia, being able to map any of the included sensors to any of the included actuators. With just a turn of one of the cubical devices it is possible to create a new combination. We discuss the core principles of the Loaded Dice, what sensors and actuators are included, how they relate to human senses, and how we realized a meaningful mapping between sensors and actuators. We further discuss where we see additional potential in the Loaded Dice to support synesthetic exploration - as Synesthetic Dice - so that you can eventually find out who cries brighter.

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@article{arxiv.2301.11436,
  title  = {Synesthetic Dice: Sensors, Actuators, And Mappings},
  author = {Albrecht Kurze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11436},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

In Workshop Sensory Sketching at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI22). April 22, 2022. 4 pages

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