Designed by: Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano, SKY YUTAKA
Design Trust Affiliation: Design Trust Seed Grantee
Description:
In times of reduced social interaction and social separation there are benefits for spatial devices that promote interaction and makes the user feel connected with their loved ones. Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano propose a conceptual IOT lighting device that allows family members and friends to send smiles and messages to each other in the forms of lighting signals and patterns, in effect allowing loved ones who are physically separated to remain interconnected. In this installation, a pair of lighting devices are connected via digital network, each with a Computer Vision sensor that detects the smiles – and potentially other emotions – of users and sends them to its counterpart device in the form of lighting signals and patterns.
Image Credit: Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano, SKY YUTAKA
Website: SKY YUTAKA