The difference engine

A body-drawing communicator for distant partners

Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis, Matthew Karau

Mutsugoto is an intimate communication device indended for a bedroom environment. Instead of exchanging e-mail or SMS messages using generic interfaces in business-like venues, Mutsugoto allows distant partners to communicate through the language of touch as expressed on the canvas of the human body. A specialized computer vision and projection system allows users to draw on each others’ bodies while laying in bed. Drawings are transmitted “live” between the two beds, enabling a different kind of synchronous communication that leverages the emotional quality of physical gesture.

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This post is tagged bedroom, relationships, touch