Home Notes A Room that Reacts

A Room That Reacts — reading Proxemic Interaction (Greenberg et al.)

It looks very futuristic how they built this media player, which is, in fact, a room that reacts to people and objects. A great example of ubiquitous computing, and something Mark Weiser would enjoy if he were in the room. (Haha!)

But it still feels like something that exists only in a lab. I don’t think the full setup exists today. It’s not that it couldn’t be built, but how affordable and efficient would it be?

But I see signs of it in my everyday devices. For example, AirPods pause audio when you remove one earbud (Attentive User Interface, AUI), and they switch the audio input between devices when you switch between them (device-to-device).