Bzzzt

Abstract

I long, as does every human being, to feel at home wherever I find myself." -Maya Angelou.We present Bzzzt, the sketching process for an application which enables your smart phone to sense its surroundings to distinguish between familiar and unknown vibes. The phone will vibrate and record the echoes with its accelerometer or microphone, analyze those echoes and distinguish if it has felt the vibrations of this particular surface before, or not. From this it could potentially recognize some kind of feeling of being at home or hominess. Basically, this paper presents a material exploration for how we potentially could come to use the accelerometer and the microphone nowadays embedded in almost all mobile phones.