Conceived of by Jonathan Resnick, James Milward, and Trevor Shaikin, three participants in the Canadian Film Center’s Habitat New Media Lab my doki-doki (apparently named after the word Japanese teenagers use for the heart flutter you feel when you have a crush on someone) is a simple, but ingenious device.
A leather wristband and finger sensor monitors the wearer’s heartbeat and then transmits the information to a small plastic orb. The orb both illuminates and vibrates in tune and time with the heartbeat.
This concept has fascinating implications for the idea of intimate computing . It is something that you wear on your body, it is a technology that knows something about us, and it is a means not only of sharing intimate information with another person, but also of learning more about ourselves. In some ways it is an interesting variation on biofeedback technology. (more…)
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My Doki-Doki
Canadian Film Center’s Habitat New Media Lab
Gallery Carre
