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Funbrella: recording and replaying vibrations through an umbrella axis

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Funbrella: recording and replaying vibrations through an umbrella axis
We propose an umbrella-like device called Funbrella that entertains people with many types of rain by focusing on an umbrella as a user interface that connects humans and rain. Generally, people experience rain with sound, sight, or sometimes smell; however, in our proposed system, we focus on the vibration perceived through an umbrella’s handle so that people can feel the rain. We implemented a vibration-giving mechanism with an extremely simple structure based on a dynamic microphone and a dynamic speaker whose structures are almost identical. With this structure, Funbrella records the vibrations caused by raindrops and plays them. We implemented three applications: Crazy Rain, Tele-rain, and Minibrella. A questionnaire study about Crazy Rain application reveals that Funbrella is amusing enough for people regardless of age or gender because Funbrella accurately reproduces rain. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation]: User Interface – H...
Kazuyuki Fujita, Yuichi Itoh, Ai Yoshida, Maya Oza
Added 27 May 2010
Updated 27 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ACMACE
Authors Kazuyuki Fujita, Yuichi Itoh, Ai Yoshida, Maya Ozaki, Tetsuya Kikukawa, Ryo Fukazawa, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Fumio Kishino
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