Future Craft/Love Sounds

Jegan, Justin, Alexander, and I (Paulina) are working on a system that incorporates both bad and good aspects of computer-supported communication in face-to-face communication. Some of the bad aspects that we are trying to implement are delays, unnatural or non-existing eye-contact, and mono-modality. Reduced gender and race bias is a good feature that we have chosen to empathize.

The most central component of the system is a helmet that isolates the user/wearer from all natural inputs and outputs. Both incoming and outgoing speech is distorted to avoid gender bias. The user will not be able to see anything, but his or her eyes will be displayed on a screen. Thus, the “fuzzy” helmet will strictly limit and form the user’s perception of his environment.

Jegan’s eyes…or somebody else’s:

A diagram of the system setup:

The “Weymouthian” helmet that we found on Craig’s wonderful list for $25:

Pictures of the isolated helmet:

One eye:

And two:

Jegan and Justin working hard:

Videos:

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