Mapocci
Case Study: Mapocci
An award winning project described as a tangible interface for emotional communication
Created by By: 'Laura Malinverni & Lilia Villafuerte’
Video of the project can be found here.
Description of Work
Mapocci is an interactive toy for children, it is designed to promote emotional learning and social communication. It aims to achieve this by way of enhancing transmission of affects, narrative construction and communicative awareness. The toy is provided with a 3g connection that will enable distance communication, and it uses a system of sensors and actuators to create an interactive experience.
Mapocci’s objectives are:
- improve social communication and interaction between children
- elicit affective communication by constructing affective experience in interaction
- apply gesture based interaction to narrative construction.
Mapocci is a project by Laura Malinverni & Lilia Villafuerte, produced with the support of Telefonica I+D and Laboral, Art and Industrial Creation.
Artist Statement
From Laura Malinverni's website:
Together with Lilia Villafuerte we designed, developed and evaluated Mapocci, a robotic companionship for affective communication. In the project I worked in the design, the hardware development and users testing
Technology
E.g. ""Environment Dress 2.0"" consists of garments that collect information about the wearer’s immediate surroundings, visualize the data and make them available via an app. Sensors collect data on: Noise, temperature, air pressure, ultraviolet radiation, carbon monoxide level.
Implications
E.g. Making available sensor output in a creative visual manner alerts the wearer and the spectator to environmental variables in an engaging manner. Sharing data in this way, encouraging emotional engagement through visualisation and feedback, has significant implications around how wearable technology and smart city infrastructure can work with citizens to enhance urban life.
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MONICA (Management Of Networked IoT Wearables – Very Large Scale Demonstration of Cultural Societal)
SynchroniCity (SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond)