《”O”接触》－”O” CONTACT_Zhou Meihan & Su Tianyue Original

人类由于受到生理结构和机能的限制，从而对现实的理解具有局限性。作为一个可穿戴艺术项目，本作品使用面部表情技术和27个震动马达，创建了一个新的“超感知器官”来进行全新的情绪交流；挑战了传统面部表情视觉的消耗方式，“食用”精神意识，将其转化为物理振动重新证实并增强参与者对情感的感知体验。
整个装置由可穿戴结构和情绪输入两部分组成，允许两名参与者同时体验双方不能直接看见彼此。情绪输入部分是只有一个开口的扩展空间，类似于潜望镜的探头，允许一名参与者将其脸部放置在该空间并主动做出表情作为整个系统的输入。在这个空间内，摄像头对其进行人脸情绪识别，整理归纳为五种情绪，分别触发可穿戴结构部分五种不同振动状态，被“穿着”这个装置的参与者（承受者）所感知到。以此同时，承受者的表情也被另一个摄像头记录反馈给参与者一，从而整个系统形成一个交流的循环。

Introduction
Our experience of the world is limited since we are constrained by our own biology. This project using a facial emotion recognition system, twenty-seven vibration motors, and a wearable interactive structure, creating a new “super-sensory organ” a new emotional communication system to redefine and enhance the participants’ perception of emotions.
This project is a wearable installation consisting of a wearable structure and an emotion input system. These two parts allow two participants to experience an augmented communication event at the same time. The two participants stand face to face in space but because of the wearable device they cannot see each other directly. The emotion system input part is an extended tube with one opening, like a periscope probe, allowing the first participant to attach their face into the opening, and to perform making different facial expressions. The LED inside this space is lightened and assist the installed camera-1 to start the facial emotion recognition. A Raspberry Pi microcomputer analyzes the emotional data from the participant-1 in real time and categorizes it into five situations (normal, happy, angry, sad, and fearful), triggering the five different vibration states of the wearable structure, which can be perceived by the participant-2 (absorber). In this process, the participant-1 transforms his emotional perception from traditional auditory and visual sensation to a new perceptual experience of vibration. At the same time, in another wearable part, the camera-2 is also placed to record the facial changes of the absorber in real time when he perceives different vibration conditions. This image will be shown in a small screen and presented to the participant-1 in the emotional input part, allowing for a feedback process. The whole system therefore becomes a loop of communication.
Thus, this project changing the way visual is consumed and transform mental to physical vibration.