Digital Shadows

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Digital Shadows is a tangible interfaces that allows people in different places to create a collaborative shadow puppet show.

Each participant can join using their webcam and simple household objects (paper, fabric, lamps, etc.) in order to generate to the system sketched below.

Take a look at this video for the imagined experience and this video for the testing process.

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For a more in depth explanation, take a look at these system details.

 

The software includes a series of gesture-activated interactions including multiplication, scaling, and mirroring, that allow physical objects to be digitally manipulated as shown in the short clips below.

Multiply:

 

Scale:

 

Mirror: