AlbertPacino
Skilled
Intuitive, humorous and kinetic, the Blowing "Windows" explores new ways of interacting with your computer. Subverting our preconceptions of the static electronic screen, Blowing "Windows" allows human physicality and atmospheric conditions to affect this normally closed digital space.
The user of the hose can clear their cluttered desktop or breeze icons to new positions. Playing on our spatial instincts learned in the physical world, by blowing in one end and angling the other they can control the position and direction of movement of items on the screen. Equally, another person fanning, someone rushing by or a gust of wind could also affect the display, enlivening the workspace, adding new external stimulus and allowing new possibilities of communication.
At one end of the duct a wireless microphone senses the user's blow measuring it's intensity. At the other end of the duct, two tilt switches sense the angle it is held at. This information is sent wirelessly to a stamp chip microcontroller. The information is sent on to the computer where the icons move accordingly, with the file size and strength of the wind dictating the speed of movement: large files drag their weight while small ones fly across the desktop.
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