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Roads in You
New Interface for Musical Expressions 2021
  • Yoon Chung Han, San Jose State University
Publication Date
6-1-2021
Document Type
Exhibition
Exhibition/Performance Dates
June 14-18, 2021
Conference Location
Shanghai, China
Abstract

Roads in You is an interactive biometric-data artwork that allows participants to scantheir veins and find the roads that match their vein lines. The roads resemble how ourvein lines are interconnected and how the blood circulates in our bodies in variousdirections, at various speeds, and in different conditions. This new artwork exploresthe line segmentation and the structure of veins and compares them to roads in thereal world. This artwork includes biometric data sonification on top of 3D map-basedvisualization and 3D printed sculptures. The vein lines are transformed to sound, andthe participants can listen to their unique “audio signature” generated by their veins.By using various visual features extracted by image processing techniques, thebranches, length of lines, size of veins, brightness, and contrast of images determineparameters of audio synthesis and create a unique and personalized sound for eachparticipant.

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Peer-reviewed Exhibition

This installation can also be viewed at: http://nime2021.org/program/#/installation/260

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Citation Information
Yoon Chung Han. "Roads in You" New Interface for Musical Expressions 2021 (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yoon-chung-han/31/