Rainterior: an interactive water display with illuminating raindrops

Authors:
Erika Okude;Yasuaki Kakehi
Affiliations:
Keio University, Endo, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, JAPAN;Keio University, Endo, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, JAPAN
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
Year:
2011

Citing 3
Cited 2

Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Submerging technologies

ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches
Cool interaction with calm technologies: experimenting with ice as a multitouch surface

ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

A nonluminous display that controls the evaporation velocity

ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Posters
AquaTop display: interactive water surface for viewing and manipulating information in a bathroom

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In our daily lives, we often feel depressed on rainy days. In this research, we aim to relieve these kinds of unpleasant feelings by providing a novel entertainment system using raindrops. More concretely, we propose an interactive display named "rainterior" that can illuminate collisions of raindrops on a water surface by using a projector-camera system. According to the positions of raindrops, the appearance of the water surface changes and sounds are generated in real-time. In this paper, we describe the concept, system design and implementation of rainterior.