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AURA: Urban Personal Projection to Initiate the Communication

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ISS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

Pages 397 - 399

https://doi.org/10.1145/3279778.3281758

Published: 19 November 2018 Publication History

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We present a concept of AURA, an urban personal projection to initiate the communication. In this work, we focus on how to break the ice with strangers through technology in urban public space. The Aura, as an enliven spiritual pet, floats around user's feet. We introduce a simple interaction scenario, attracting a person who comes within personal distance of the user who carries the AURA. To break the ice between strangers, a projected butterfly as the Aura is moved toward a person who comes within 2m of the user, and then back and forth to attract that person. We believe that externalized interactive representation of the user in the form of a spiritual pet can ease and facilitate the communication, serve as a conversation starter, and make the interactions between people more fun.

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AURA: Urban Personal Projection to Initiate the Communication
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality

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ISS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

November 2018

499 pages

ISBN:9781450356947

DOI:10.1145/3279778

General Chairs:
Hideki Koike
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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Carlo Ratti
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Yuichiro Takeuchi
Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan
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Program Chairs:
Kentaro Fukuchi
Meiji University, Japan
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Stacey Scott
University of Guelph, Canada
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Diego Martinez Plasencia
University of Sussex, United Kingdom

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Wolf SFriedrich PHurtienne J(2024)Still Not a Lot of Research? Re-Examining HCI Research on Religion and SpiritualityExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3651058(1-15)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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Guo GLeshed GGreen K(2023)“I normally wouldn’t talk with strangers”: Introducing a Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Between StrangersProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581325(1-20)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581325
Guo GLeshed GPinch TEvan Green K(2022)SocialStools: A Playful, Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Across StrangersCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts10.1145/3491101.3519877(1-5)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
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