What is MovISee?
MovISee is a digital medium, software and platform for you to play and create with your videos, images, and digital files using your full body movement. MovISee is:
Intuitive. No initial instruction is needed. All you need are an input file and your body, then you are ready to go. Simply pick a video/image/pdf, input it into the software, and move your body to start playing with and creating using the selected file.
Playful. Your body movements create unexpected results and new visual possibilities, mixing both the familiar and unfamiliar, encouraging you to improvise further and explore the potential of your body.
Imaginative. You can see yourself and the results live and so can create customized meaning by combining your body movement and the output in your own way.
The Idea
I want to give individual choice and control to you whilst also enabling you to construct your individual ways of playing through actively creating the subject with your body. MovISee consequently leads to a new experience, allowing you to creatively see digital visual information from all possible perspectives. As a result, MovISee transforms the your understanding of the selected content as well as your understanding of the potential role of body movement as means to create new information from the selected visual inputs.
What can I do with MovIsee?
You can create your own personal dynamic and static message, such as an e-card or Line sticker, and send it to your family and friends, so they and you can see you and the message simultaneously.
You can also use your movement to create a music video for your favorite songs.
You can exercise with it. You will not only be able to see instant feedback of your movement and make posture adjustments, but the visuals also provide instant new visual response about every bit of your movement to encourage you to move more in order to see more.
Play a hide and seek game. You can send a hidden message and ask your friend to find it by searching it using their full body.
Feedback from users of MovIsee:
“It is very intriguing！ When you seem to almost grasp the movement, you then are surprised by unexpected shapes, folds or abstract vibrations.” – Jimmy Weng, UX designer
“I had taken too many videos of my young daughter to actually be able to watch them all again. I would look at those videos again with MovIsee because I could play with them.” – Yu-Chang Chou, Designer
“It gives me an original way to create, and frees me from previous trained concept and skills.” – YuEn Hsieh, professional filmmaker and photographer
“It is like an extensive repertoire of body movement.” – Harriet Edwards, educator and researcher
“It is much more fun and enjoyable than I thought. […] I would like to work out with my own chosen video rather than the wii programes.” – Lori Ho, artist
“I was relating to the image form more than thinking about my movement. My movement was decided through the interface in a way most exciting.” – Naama Schendar, interaction designer and performer
“Very immersive. The physical space around you dissolve. […]It provides a speculative illustration of what lies beyond the image.” – Nils Jean, media researcher
“It gives participants a world for imagination.” – Ruby Yao, UI designer
“It is so different from anything I have seen and experienced before. I feel responsible for the outputs and therefore want to push it to its limits” – Divine Southgate Smith, artist
“The experience is an act of question the original” – Meg Rahaim-Shakespeare, print maker and researcher
“It is very playful […] like origami […] It feels like I am flying through the space.” – Ying Kerr, design historian
“I realised after participating that it was quite a workout. But, while I was doing it, I was engaged in the experience and focused on learning and exploring the spaces.” – Tokushu Inamura, UX designer
“The device encouraged me to ‘dance’, which I never do.” – Austin Houldsworth, interaction designer