The Living Tree: Using Surface Transducers to Explore the Secret Life of Trees through Sonic Interactions

Malthe Emil Blichfeldt; Jonathan  Komang-Sønderbek; Frederik  Højlund Westergård; Jonas Fritsch

doi:10.1145/3197391.3205398

The Living Tree: Using Surface Transducers to Explore the Secret Life of Trees through Sonic Interactions

Malthe Emil Blichfeldt, Jonathan Komang-Sønderbek, Frederik Højlund Westergård, Jonas Fritsch

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This paper presents the demo of the interactive listening installation The Living Tree, where surface transducers were deployed in a real-life setting to design immersive and affectively engaging sonic interactions exploring the life of trees. The surface transducer technology emits vibrations through whatever material you press it against, turning the material into a speaker. We present the design of the project which we will demo at DIS and elaborate on how surface transducers can be used as a design material for creating rich interactive experiences.

Translated title of the contribution	Det Levende Træ; brug af Overflade-transdcuere til at udforske Træers hemmelige Liv gennem Lydlig Interaktion
Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '18 Companion Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	13 Jun 2018
Pages	327-330
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5631-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205398
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2018

Keywords

Interactive listening installation
Surface transducers
Sonic interactions
Immersive design
Affective engagement

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Blichfeldt, M. E., Komang-Sønderbek, J., Højlund Westergård, F., & Fritsch, J. (2018). The Living Tree: Using Surface Transducers to Explore the Secret Life of Trees through Sonic Interactions. In DIS '18 Companion Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 327-330). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205398

Blichfeldt, Malthe Emil ; Komang-Sønderbek, Jonathan ; Højlund Westergård, Frederik et al. / The Living Tree: Using Surface Transducers to Explore the Secret Life of Trees through Sonic Interactions. DIS '18 Companion Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. pp. 327-330

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Blichfeldt ME, Komang-Sønderbek J, Højlund Westergård F, Fritsch J. The Living Tree: Using Surface Transducers to Explore the Secret Life of Trees through Sonic Interactions. In DIS '18 Companion Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. p. 327-330 doi: 10.1145/3197391.3205398

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