Shared Kitchen
A Spatial Intervention Prototype
Our goal was to use intentional abstraction, to provide the experience of cooking together and simulate the feeling/awareness of another person’s presence. Slight movements and subtle sounds are what allow us to feel connected to each others presence.
Project Information:
Project Type: Academic, Product Design
Professor: Violet Whitney
Partner(s): Karan Matta, Kylie Walker, Takashi Honzawa
Value Proposition
Whether it’s the comfort of sitting together watching a movie, just passing by one another throughout the day, or even doing an activity such as cooking together. All these moments throughout the day don’t need a constant face to face conversation to be fulfilling or significant. Just the presence of another person fills and enhances a space beyond the realm in which a voice or conversation can fully emulate.
This nonverbal sense of awareness and interaction with another person is what inspired our intervention. The feeling/awareness of another person’s presence from slight movements and subtle sounds is what allows us to feel connected to their presence.
Direct Presence
Ambient Presence
Ambient Telepresence
Prototype Design
Using Processing 4.0 and a fiduciary tracking base, we created a state tracking JavaScript which changed based on the fiducial x-position. Depending on the x-position, a webhook get request would be send to our IFTTT recipe’s. With specific IFTTT recipe’s assigned to an x-position range, our prototype will change the spatial state of our partners kitchen.
Check out our code on GitHub!
Prototype Implementation
Kylie and I experiencing each others movements through sight and sound within our respective kitchens