Conversations in Trace

Pen-plotted question cards

An intimate social experiment where strangers meet, draw a question card, and talk. While they speak, 3D cameras capture the movements of their hands. Every gesture, pause and emphasis.

The traces left in space are reinterpreted as pen-plotted drawings. Each conversation is captured as an artefact. Conversations in trace that can be held in your hands.

Year
2025
Type
Course Project
Context
ZHdK, MA Interaction Design
Location
Zürich, CH
Medium
3D Depth Cameras, Pen Plotter
In collaboration with
Vera Bardin, Silvana de Paola, Li Wangqing, Lin Hsin-Yi, Luca Somm
Mentored by
Max Rheiner, Karmen Franinovic, Luke Franzke
Categories
Interaction
Screenshot of hand tracking system
Two people sitting on a yellow sofa talking and person sitting in a table behind a pen-plotter