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Rainterior: an interactive water display with illuminating raindrops

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Erika Okude,

Yasuaki KakehiAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Pages 270 - 271

https://doi.org/10.1145/2076354.2076410

Published: 13 November 2011 Publication History

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In our daily lives, we often feel depressed on rainy days. In this research, we aim to relieve these kinds of unpleasant feelings by providing a novel entertainment system using raindrops. More concretely, we propose an interactive display named "rainterior" that can illuminate collisions of raindrops on a water surface by using a projector-camera system. According to the positions of raindrops, the appearance of the water surface changes and sounds are generated in real-time. In this paper, we describe the concept, system design and implementation of rainterior.

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Rainterior: an interactive water display with illuminating raindrops
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  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

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ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

November 2011

295 pages

ISBN:9781450308717

DOI:10.1145/2076354

General Chairs:
Jun Rekimoto
The University of Tokyo / Sony CSL, Japan
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Hideki Koike
University of Electro-Communications, Japan
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Kentaro Fukuchi
Meiji University, Japan
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Program Chairs:
Yoshifumi Kitamura
Tohoku University, Japan
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Daniel Wigdor
University of Toronto, Canada

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Koike HMatoba YTakahashi YQuigley AJacucci GHorn MNacenta M(2013)AquaTop displayProceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces10.1145/2512349.2512815(155-164)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2013
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Sonoda TTanaka TMatsushita M(2013)A nonluminous display that controls the evaporation velocityACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Posters10.1145/2503385.2503429(1-1)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2013
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Kimura KGunawardena KHirakawa M(2013)A framework for detecting positions of objects in water2013 International Joint Conference on Awareness Science and Technology & Ubi-Media Computing (iCAST 2013 & UMEDIA 2013)10.1109/ICAwST.2013.6765524(679-685)Online publication date: Nov-2013
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