It's All About You
What can technology tell us about who we are? How can tracking our activities and behaviors improve our total health and awareness? RLMG produced two experiences for the Tech Museum’s Body Metrics exhibition that address these questions and much more. Heart Sync and Body Moves transform data into something visible, comprehensible, useful, and fun. As the only physical installations in the space, these two experiences helped to define the exhibition environment.
Heart Sync
Heart Sync explores relationships between our bodies and our individual and social behaviors through a communal relaxation exercise. Visitors’ heartbeats are measured using light sensors and visualized on a digital table. As they work together to relax and breathe calmly, the visualization responds in calming tones and waveforms. Over time, visitors influence one another’s ability to concentrate and relax, and their heartbeats become totally in sync.
Body Moves
Body Moves guides visitors through three physical activities and measures their position, activity, and range of motion using Microsoft Kinect sensors. Pose challenges visitors to match a series of yoga-like positions. Balance measures how still they can remain while standing on one foot. Bounce evaluates visitors’ expended energy as they jump up and down. Together, these experiences demonstrate how tracking our movements can encourage us to make small changes that impact our health and well-being.
