ICDC 2005 - Intimate Synthetics

Developed at ICDC through the research of "Personal Space", Intimate Synthetics is a working prototype system for gesture recognition. The aim of the work was to produce an interactive environment where performers or visitors could engage and communicate with a synthetic entity through the use of gesture.

By using a video entity programmed with appropriate responses, the focus of the project was in creating a user experience that was an emotive and intimate form of human-computer interaction. Moreover, the objective was to break down the formal structures of computer interfaces by using the entity's expressive capabilities to induce such an emotional, non-verbal form of interaction.

The project was realised by building a responsive system that captured and analysed feeds from multiple video tracking cameras, using the Max/MSP/Jitter multimedia programming environment.

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