TY - GEN
T1 - Drag a star - The social media in outer space
AU - She, James
AU - Ng, Carmen
AU - Leung, Desmond
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/10/13
Y1 - 2015/10/13
N2 - Drag A Star" is an interactive installation artwork that gives audiences an immersive and stunning interactive experience to remember the myth of making wishes upon a shooting star. Through the interactions with the display, audiences can learn about meteorites from outer space based on scientific and artistic perspectives by catching a shooting star with their smartphones. Audiences can send their wishes to a shooting star through their smartphones, while being able to read and reply the wishes from others at the same time. The piece was created based on the latest technologies of digital display, screen smart-device interactions, mobile applications, and web-based messaging systems. Extensive scientific, artistic and design efforts were integrated to create these cyber-physical interactive experiences between shooting stars and audiences. The artistic statement of this installation, akin to many ancient myths about wishing upon shooting stars, is about the possibility of catching a shooting star physically through technologies, and realizing someone's wish after reading them. Hence the existence of shooting stars could likely be the social media in outer space-a world where a connection is made between other beings in the Universe.
AB - Drag A Star" is an interactive installation artwork that gives audiences an immersive and stunning interactive experience to remember the myth of making wishes upon a shooting star. Through the interactions with the display, audiences can learn about meteorites from outer space based on scientific and artistic perspectives by catching a shooting star with their smartphones. Audiences can send their wishes to a shooting star through their smartphones, while being able to read and reply the wishes from others at the same time. The piece was created based on the latest technologies of digital display, screen smart-device interactions, mobile applications, and web-based messaging systems. Extensive scientific, artistic and design efforts were integrated to create these cyber-physical interactive experiences between shooting stars and audiences. The artistic statement of this installation, akin to many ancient myths about wishing upon shooting stars, is about the possibility of catching a shooting star physically through technologies, and realizing someone's wish after reading them. Hence the existence of shooting stars could likely be the social media in outer space-a world where a connection is made between other beings in the Universe.
KW - Interactive Artworks
KW - Screen-Smart Device Interaction
KW - Shooting Stars
KW - Smartphones and Mobile Applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962808816&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2733373.2808106
DO - 10.1145/2733373.2808106
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962808816
T3 - MM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference
SP - 723
EP - 726
BT - MM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2015
Y2 - 26 October 2015 through 30 October 2015
ER -