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RobotPHONE is a Robotic User Interface (RUI) that uses robots as physical avatars for interpersonal communication. Using RobotPHONE, users in remote locations can communicate shapes and motion with each other. For a long time, robots have

ECHOHCE is a project for a singer and a machine generating text. The singer speaks the title of a song to be generated into a microphone. A speech recognition software translates the words into text and sends it to the Poetry Machine. The software

egaku is a tabletop user interface designed to enhance the ideation process with seamless image management tools. Designers sketch ideas as the system captures high-resolution images of the sketches and organizes them in a transparent image

His first interactive sound installation. Construction of some very bulky 8 x 8 pixel video cameras, connected then to a wire-wrapped card in the Apple ][ which digitized the images, and wrote a program for the Apple ][ which controlled a Korg MS-20

Very Nervous System is the third generation of interactive sound installations which Rokeby has created. In these systems, video cameras, image processors, computers, synthesizers and a sound system are used to create a space in which the movements

The word "haptization" means, "making it possible to touch". A typical example is the usage of haptic display devices in order to touch computer-generated images. Therefore, it is often called "haptization of information". Previous work on

Echoing Narcissus is an interactive sound-sculpture in the form of a well, covered in copper sheet and printed circuit boards. It is a re-telling of Ovid's myth of Narcissus and Echo. All sounds made in the proximity of the sculpture are

Measure is a variation of the Very Nervous System, using an extremely simple and regular sound source, a ticking clock. (source: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/measure.html)

A large scale installation which included a 20 foot screen in portrait displaying a psychiatrist under hypnosis describing an environment, a representation of which was then constructed in two spaces beyond the screen. The work focused on the

A computer installation desigend to create communication between several computers. A network created an on going creative process between the computers surrounding the viewer with light and sound. The process would continue to change as the