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When I open my hands as much as I can to both sides of my body – like a child spreading its arms untill it can’t any further, sayling: „Look, this is how big is an elephant!“ – I try to measure my surrounding: I am trying to depict a size of something that is there – but may not there in a touchable way– and I will try to show its dimensions with the means of my body. | When I open my hands as much as I can to both sides of my body – like a child spreading its arms untill it can’t any further, sayling: „Look, this is how big is an elephant!“ – I try to measure my surrounding: I am trying to depict a size of something that is there – but may not there in a touchable way– and I will try to show its dimensions with the means of my body. | ||
Musing about distances (– from here, to there… from my one hand, to the other hand… ) and then thinking about the size of things and how hard they are sometimes to percieve esp. when far away or largely sized, I quickly realized that I would like to find a way to translate such terms like meters and centimeters (– the metric system: a measuring system we used to learn, yet | Musing about distances (– from here, to there… from my one hand, to the other hand… ) and then thinking about the size of things and how hard they are sometimes to percieve esp. when far away or largely sized, I quickly realized that I would like to find a way to translate such terms like meters and centimeters (– the metric system: a measuring system we used to learn, yet often so intangible) into terms that might be more abstract but still emotionally close to us: sounds. | ||
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The gloves are equipped with an IR-distance sensor, that can sense and measure the gap between one hand and the other. | The gloves are equipped with an IR-distance sensor, that can sense and measure the gap between one hand and the other. | ||
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By joining the middle fingers of both of your hands, you ‚activate‘ the gloves (in a metaphorical way) and by that initiate the process of measuring: | By joining the middle fingers of both of your hands, you ‚activate‘ the gloves (in a metaphorical way) and by that initiate the process of measuring: | ||
an LED-light switches on, and a short vibration indicates the start of the measuring. | an LED-light switches on, and a short vibration indicates the start of the measuring. | ||
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Finally, by joining the middle fingers again, the process will be stopped. | Throughout the whole process then, sounds according to your hands position will be heard. Finally, by joining the middle fingers again, the process will be stopped. | ||
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– IR - infrared - sensor | – IR - infrared - sensor | ||