Conversation table
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The Conversation Table reflects on a type of social dynamics that takes place at tables during conversations. Who dominates the conversation?
As two people converse, LEDs, embedded along the center of the table, are activated by the pattern of the exchange. Microphones pick up the duration and the volume of the conversation at regular intervals, and trigger light animation from the end where one speaks toward the other. If both people speak simultaneously, the lights start animating from both ends. The table doesn't parse nor "understand" the nature of the discourse, rather it isolates and brings forward one specific component of interaction at tables. Developed by Lira Nikolovska from the Computing Culture Group. She also built a Steal Table that should interest Frédéric Eyl ;-) Image credits: Photo by Kate Kunath and video grab by Lira Nikolovska. |
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Lira Nikolovska has developed this table for proper conversation analysis. Here is the low-down: two microphones are on either end of the table with a string of LED lights in the center. At regular intervals the microphone will pick up... Read More
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couldn't help thinking of: brainball (http://smart.tii.se/smart/projects/brainball/index_en.html)
The best interactive table game I've ever seen. A big shame it hasn't become the equivalent of the pinball machine...