Project Number
- 250
Title
- VisiPhone
Description
- Communication object that visualizes sounds flowing between two locations.
Contact
- Karrie Karahalios, Fernanda Viegas
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street
- kkarahal@media.mit.edu, fviegas@media.mit.edu
WWW
- http://www.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/visiphone.html
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "VisiPhone is a communication object that opens a visual and auditory portal through space by visualizing the sounds flowing through two places. A continuous audio connection between two distant locations brings the inhabitants closer, allowing them to talk informally and easily."
- "VisiPhone's graphical rendering of the audio brings greater continuity and expressiveness to the connection. It portrays the existence of the connection even in moments of silence and it expresses the dynamics and inflections of conversation originating in both locations."
- "This rendering is evocative rather than technical; our goal in building the VisiPhone has been to create an aesthetic object that enhances sociable awareness."
Sight
- VisiPhone optical display
Sound
- VisiPhone audio object
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 311 - communication
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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