Sensing bodycontact is an investigation into the input side of the TouchMeDare concept and the prototype built by van Boerdonk et al (www.touchmedare.nl). The TouchMeDare concept aims to get people aqcuainted with each other through physical (bodily) contact, without seeing each other. The TouchMeDare prototype is designed to evoke this by playing dynamically generated music that reacts to the bodily contact of two people with either side of an opaque, vertical canvas.
In this project, an attempt was made to characterise this bodily contact of two people through the canvas. Video capturing and processing techniques were applied to extrapolate information about people’s movements and contact over time, in addition to the capacitative sensor system that is inside the previous TouchMeDare prototype.
The video below explains the most important characteristics of bodily contact that were found. It also illustrates how these characteristics were found.
For more information about the project, see the (rewritten) project report:
e-mar.nl/bodycontact/BodyContactReport.pdf