Patrick Firth
Jimmy Ho
Reference Information
Title - Tangible video bubbles
Author - Kimiko Ryokai, Hayes Raffle, Hiroshi Horii, Yotam Mann
Summary
This article was written about the "play space" and tangible video bubbles. The authors discuss the importance of young childrens' development process when it comes to art work. In response to this a tangible video bubble was developed. This allows for young children to interact with video recordings and drawings. Basically, the child can record itself and its current express. It can also edit the video and its audio on the video bubble. After this editing process is complete, the child can "spill out" the current bubble onto canvas with various drawings. The children can draw on this canvas just as they would with a piece of paper.
Discussion
The idea discussed in this article was very different to me. The concept of capturing video and having it interact with a drawing bored is very interesting. I could see how this could possibly be very useful tool. Maybe after development is progressed this could be used for presentations, meetings, and other ways to display video/drawings in one location.
I agree that the underlying software could be used as a presentation tool, but I imagine that the interface would have to see extensive redesign. I must admit, though, that the mental image of business executives playing with large, squishy bubbles is an amusing one.
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