Personal Space

Intersection of Personal Bubbles

Danning Liang
MDes Tech 2024
Selin Dursun
MDes Tech 2024
Yuto Takenaka
DDes 2023
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1 Personal Bubbles Manifested Through Projections and Motion Tracking

Our idea emerged by examining the interactions of 'personal spaces. We explored several ways of materializing these interactions, from stretching one's own space, to merging with other's space, to tearing up the personal bubble. To best represent this narrative, we decided to use a motion-sensing input device, Kinect. It allowed us to track multiple joints within the body and create a multi-user experience. We wanted to present this experience both through projection where the participants interact with their bubbles and each other in a performative manner as well as real-life rendering where these interactions and

personal bubbles are overlaid over each other.

Project video
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2 Personal Bubble Rendered Over Real Time Body Interactions
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3 Experimenting With Tearing Up Personal Bubbles
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4 Testing Kinect Camera and Grasshopper
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5 Baked Snapshot of Personal Bubble Intersections (Pic 1&2); Experimenting With Sound and Body Movements (Pic 3)