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This page presents a gallery of experimental interaction projects developed for the Soli radar sensor in the Google Pixel4 mobile phone. For more information about each student’s project, click on the blue heading links to access their written project report.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A great deal of media art and design is concerned with investigating the cultural potentials, critical significance, and aesthetic possibilities of emerging technologies. For this reason, building exploratory prototypes is a central practice in new media arts and design. In this two-week project, students were asked to devise a whimsical, provocative, or sublime interaction for a novel interface device: the Soli<\/a> mobile radar sensor. The students, the majority of whom are sophomores in the CMU School of Art, developed interactive prototypes using p5.js, Soli Sandbox<\/a>, and Glitch.com.<\/p>\n

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Axol: Nervous Chicken<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

Axol developed an animated, interactive chicken character which gets nervous when you get too close to it. Her software uses the Soli radar sensor to detect the presence of people nearby. The chicken is constructed through particles and springs, which gives it a bouncy quality. Upon sensing human presence, the chicken perks up and becomes alerted. You can also slap the chicken with the Soli “swipe” gesture, at which the chicken may squawk.<\/p>\n