Designing embodied interfaces for casual sound recording devices

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Poupyrev;Haruo Oba;Takuo Ikeda;Eriko Iwabuchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan;Sony Creative Center, Tokyo, Japan;Sony Creative Center, Tokyo, Japan;Ochanamizu University, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the Special Moment project we prototype and evaluate the design of interfaces for casual sound recording devices. These devices are envisioned to be used by a casual user to capture and store their everyday experiences in the form of "sound albums" -- collections of recordings related to a certain situation. We formulate a number of design principles for such recording devices, as well as implement and evaluate two working prototypes. A candle recorder allows for capturing the general atmosphere at a party, and the children's book recorder records the interactions between parents and children while reading a book together.