Mobile Feelings l

2002-03, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU
Source: 2002-03, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU

(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau

Mobile Feelings l ,
Co-workers & Funding
IAMAS lnstitute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
in collaboration with France Telecom Studio Creatif, Paris, France
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Description
2002/03 tangible communication device
"Mobile Feelings" is an artistic project that explores the ambivalence of sharing personal information with an anonymous audience. Instead of communication via voice or images to people we know, "Mobile Feelings" lets people communicate with strangers through virtual touch and body sensations including smell and sweat using specially designed mobile phones.

As opposed to application-based systems in the area of "affective computing" [1], "wearable computing" [2], "robotic user interfaces" [3] and tactile interfaces for handheld devices [4], "Mobile Feelings" aims to create unusual and unsettling sensations of sharing private body sensations with complete strangers over a mobile phone network.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • mobile
  • subjects
    • Body and Psychology
      • bodies (animal components)
      • senses
    • Media and Communication
      • communication
      • telephones
  • technology
    • interfaces
      • body sensors
        • breathing sensors
Technology & Material
Hardware
6 Mobile Feelings devices (Pumpkins)
6 Podiums
6 Battery chargers
1 room
Interface
6 Real fresh or dried pumpkins
6 battery operated bluetooth oximeter interface transceiver with physical heart beat actuator and breathing sensor and actuators (in house)
Software
Real time transmission and reception of users’ heart pulses over bluetooth
Real time transmission and reception of users’ breathing over bluetooth