Question: How to create a personal audio ambiance that seems ubiquitous to the user and is yet localized to him? How to exploit location sensing technologies to improve the quality of life in a home environment?

Images and music evoke memories of special moments in life. We harness this human dynamic in a personal music system. There are no playlists - music is associated with photographs. Drag-and-drop puts the music in the room. The music follows the listener’s movements throughout the home. A similar gesture lets friends share music, or purchase music at the café.

Media

• Location sensitive audio restreaming [pdf]
  

Participants: Atau Tanaka, Antoine Authier

References

Tanaka, Atau Seeking Interaction, Changing Space. In Rasa Smite, editor, Acoustic.Space: Media Architecture Reader, 2003.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2003 at 9:00 am and is filed under Past Projects.