Joseph Lyons
Profession: Designer
Project: THE FACE CONTROL KIT
Based in: London
Platform Member: Other Today
A physical & digital toolkit for building your own face controlled objects & digital projects.
THE FACE CONTROL KIT
Manifesto
“It is important now more than ever to be inventive with interaction.”
In the rapidly developing digital world that we live in design is constantly changing and evolving. You interact with hundreds of digitally designed interfaces every day and often use the same outdated interactions to do so.
The Face Control Digital Toolkit aims to provide a means for creating new interactions through the use of facial recognition and landmarking software that is open source and publicly available.
What are face controlled objects?
The simple answer is anything that can be controlled with your face. The most immediate examples are social media filters that use facial tracking to create simple media effects. However, we believe that there is potential beyond just visual gimmicks. We want to help empower people to create a world of new interaction – to allow people to control their surroundings with their faces.
But… why?
Developing new and facially controlled interactions is not only important to make the world more fun – but to push the boundaries of what interactive objects are. Questioning why we interact with objects in the way we do. Questioning what this says about us as people. And questioning where the world of interaction, objects and design will go next.
Check out the project video here
