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The Bio-logue project consists of a small room with walls formed from rear-projection screens. These screens will display visual images, synchronized with synthesized and effected audio samples, corresponding to individual users' biological and autonomic data.
In order to enter into the room, viewers will need to stand at a non-descript pedestal to allow interaction with the system. When the system is ready to collect data from a new user, the pedestal will illuminate to indicate that user interaction is requested.
Viewers, before entering the room, are required to interact with the system via a pedestal outside of the main presentation room. Upon standing at the pedestal, the system will scan the user's autonomic and physical data, including facial structure, vocal tonation, CO2 output, breathing, pulse rate, height, weight, etc.
Upon completion of a 20-second data acquisition phase, the system will permit the user to enter the room.
The main Bio-logue presentation room will consist of walls formed from rear-projection screens. These screens will display visual images corresponding to individual users' biological data.
Viewers will experience the system's interpretation and translation of autonomic and physical data of various users, artificially linked by the system into a virtual multimedia discussion.
Every user who interacts with the system via the pedestal will be stored as a separate instance in a database. Thus, each user is defined solely by his/her autonomic and physical data.
The system integrates every user's autonomic data into the visual and aural presentation inside the room. The system will use a new viewer's data as the catalyst for a new virtual discussion between recent participants stored in the system's memory by way of multimedia:
- Visualization of the interpreted biological data
- Visualization of the text interpreted/recombinant text of the participants' phrases
- Sonification of the interpreted biological data
- The users' phrases heard through the speakers and effected according to the intepreted biological parameters
The aesthetics of the system will be designed to be minimally invasive whenever possible.
The sensors in the pedestal will be integrated into its structure so as to hide all evidence of their existance. Doing this will enhance the feeling of non-control over the system. The pedestal itself will be relatively unassuming, as a preliminary glance will not reveal its technological nature.
The projector and speaker sub-systems will be placed in very discrete locations, so as to avoid detection from cursory glances. Specifically, these components will be hidden in the space above the room's faux ceiling. If such a ceiling is not present, then alternate plans will be made to ensure the components remain out of sight.