
Trainstation?


Floor designers Sensacell installed a 250 sq. foot interactive LED floor from 1000 of their LED panels at the 2008 World Expo in Spain. Over time, the floors begin to remember patterns and trails of steps, which will either highlight how often we go to the refridgerator, or remind us of our ecological footprint. One or the other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XafmyAhyFCg




The LED-s Urban Carpet is a portable interactive installation using a non-traditional user interface. The installation represents a game with a grid of lights that can be embedded as a carpet into the urban context. A pattern of lights is generated dynamically that change in real time according to pedestrians movement over the carpet. In this case the pedestrians become participants that influence the generative process and make the pattern of LEDs change with the change of the location of one or more participants.
The aim is to create a novel urban experience that invites social interactions with the interface among different people as friends, observes or strangers. Here we investigate social interaction patterns and behavior generated through the introduction of this new kind of interface. We describe the concept, design and implementation of this interactive installation.
The LEDs Urban Carpet is conceived as a grid of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which interact with the pedestrians by tracking their paths as they move over the grid। The lights turn on or off via a computer generated program, which defines the behavior of each light at every instant. This program is written using a Boid algorithm to simulate a flock of seagulls that follow the pedestrians as they move in different directions over the carpet.
Milky Way CarpetSturdy enough to walk on. Warm and comfortable to sit on. Optical fibers woven into the pile of the carpet provide both visual and tactile stimulation as they create a stunning, shimmering effect of continually changing colors. Lay the carpet over existing flooring, or attach to a wall. Wheelchair accessible. Light source included. SIZE: 78" x 39"
www.snoezeleninfo.com/
Interactive light carpet (work name as it is still a work in progress)
An interactive fiber carpet that reacts to how you walk, sit, or lay on it, by changing its light pattern.
