Control Room

• The first mask I’m going to make is Control Room. The user is virtually in a small room and sees the world through different windows. It creates a feeling of controlling a robot, which is the physical form of self. The distance between self and the world is created, thus decreased the threatening feeling from outside world.
• It’s also a space for your imaginative friends.
• Possible purposes
  • Although hiding in control room, the user still hope to interact with others. Inside control room is just a way to deal with the social awkwardness
• Appearance: Townhouse
• Verb
  • User
    • Lives daily life, sees through different windows (passive v.)
    • Interacts with imaginative friends (active v.)
      • What kinds of interaction?
  • Others
    • Have few interactions with the user in general
    • Windows and doors invited to be knocked to start conversations –> not like small talk but have certain level of efforts
• Features to have: multi-camera input, prosthetic limbs,

And here’s a video explaining what’s going on.

Touch Event

• Copper tape extension
• For other to trigger sounds, as part of the “An Afternoon Under A Mask” experiment

https://vimeo.com/120315575

But then I found out it’s super finicky if I use multiple ones and extend them T_T

https://vimeo.com/120407665

An Afternoon Under A Mask

– How does it feel to live daily life under a mask exactly? What’s the reaction of others? What do I hope to happen? I’m going to try to answer those questions on Monday(2/23).

Couldn’t do it because the copper tapes are too finicky..