The Reading Glove

description

The Reading Glove is a wearable glove-based interface for interactive storytelling. Readers wearing the glove can pick up tagged objects and hear fragments of a story associatied with those objects.  The plot of the story revolves around a British spy operating in French-occupied Algiers around the turn of the 20th century. The narrative traces the spy’s discovery that his cover has been blown and his unraveling of how this came about.  The uncovering of facts in the narrative mimics the uncovering of story fragments that the readers perform with the objects.  Thus the puzzle-like nature of the story and the interaction support and reinforce each other.  A tabletop display with an intelligent recommender engine provides guidance through the story.  

Full project details and publications are here.

The Reading Glove project is currently funded as part of the GRAND NCE network, and my work on it has been additionally funded via an NSERC Discovery Grant.