Responsive + Intention Gesture Exploration

This term I started my exploration with this question:

What if the interaction becomes more as an extension of the body and matches the rhythm develop from the body…

1. A commanding scenario

I wasn’t satisfied. I felt the interaction is too commanding so I started to explore a responsive interaction. A more corresponding experience. So I made my next film.

2. A responsive interaction

In this film, the system can recognize user behaviors and give responsive feedbacks. The changes of muscle tension relate to different body statuses. The system senses it and gives the feedback, which comes from different customized settings or health supports.

After the discussion with my advisor, we concluded that maybe there is a better way to interpret these gestures and to bring user intention into the act of gesture.

The reason makes stretching gesture become the gesture to stop the alarm may not because this is the gesture user does every time when she wakes up so the system recognized it. But it is because this gesture can wake the user so it becomes the gesture to stop the alarm.

Same as, the two shots espresso gesture. Rather then making an intense teeth brushing gesture become a gesture to make one shot coffee it can make more sense/ or more interesting if it is a gesture to make two shots coffee. Because the user wants to be awake, so she chooses to use a more energetic gesture to keep her awake and also makes the coffee machine to make a stronger coffee.

Come to this step of exploration. I still feel there is something lack in my design. Is the emotion.

Digital technology rarely inspires emotion. It can be an effective conduit for emotion: transmitting a message to a loved one, for instance, or sharing the first picture of a new family member. However, the medium itself rarely evokes emotion in users. (http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=1936)

I saw this quote the other which really inspires me. So yes how do evokes emotion with digital technology?

Body memory is emotional

Our feelings are actually not all perceived by our brain. The brain is in dark and silence. It can never taste anything. It can never hear anything. Electronic pulse is what it only perceives. Not the sweet hot chocolate nor the sassy touch. The brain is deaf, blind and mute. The body is only the converter transfer one energy into the others. (Ackerman, Diane. A natural history of the senses, New York: Random House. 1990. Print.)

I want to embrace this idea to iterate design and scenario to persuade this idea.

In the future when people are able to quantified all of there body data, are they able to use their gestures to recall those body data, using bodily gesture to recall these memories?

Just like, one of my friends he learns to memorize phone numbers by the numbers positions on the phone. So every time he forgets the number he repeats inputting gesture to remember the numbers.

So,

can we apply this to other part of our life and conduct the interaction? And also bring our relationship with others into discussion?

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