Exploring new object-human interactions with a face-tracking lamp
Spot Lamp demonstrates the potential of integrating technology to enhace everyday object to be engaging and responsive, creating a dynamic sense of personality and human connection.
Status
Prototype
CLIENT
Prototype
Services
Industrial Design, Physical Computing
This project is an exploration of how digital technology can be used to create new physical interactions and behaviors with everyday objects. Spot Lamp uses technology as a means to humanize and personify the object and its utility.
Powered by a Raspberry Pi and using the OpenCV library, Spot Lamp is a face tracking table lamp that pans left to right and tilts up and down, responding to a person’s face.
Spot Lamp was exhibited during Toronto Design Offsite, an annual city-wide design festival. Businesses in the city offer their street-facing windows for designers and artists to showcase their work. A goal of this project was to create an object that would engage and interact with people as they walked by.
