SRIK Surface:

Sociospatial Responsive Interactive Kinetic Surface

The SRIK Surface acts as a dynamic surface topography which responds to human socio-spatial behavior. The system utilizes a centrally positioned camera and animal behavior tracking software to analyze and respond to human social behavior.

As people form groups or conversation circles the surface begins to undulate and reach down to the socio-spatial pocket between people. The lights embedded in each sensor flicker with the audio input from the group conversation. This information passes to the raised surface and fluctuates between and above these pockets in space. The effect appears as lightning passing among the groups (albeit raised in the air) which flickers with translated audio information (conversation) from the groups.

The surface may be visible from an external viewpoint so an interior space may display it's inhabitants usage on the facade of a building. The display is reflective of both the socio-spatial inhabitation of its users as well as the information passing between them.