Or how hypermedia discovered body language

Stefan Schemat, Michael Joyce, Dominica Freier, Oliver Lehmann, Gösta Röver, Arvid Dahlke Kim Poerksen

Special Acknowledgements to: John Doe, Arvid Dahlke, Christian Denker, Darrel Knutson, Derrek Richards, Colin Hough Trapp, Til Steinmetz, Martin Heinzelmann, Hiroki Maekawa, Stefan Ebinger, Torsten Stegmann, Jens Paulsen, Peter Spiegel

... and others who have been ripped of in the name of a Good Thing.

Infection: A Roaming Novel and a Breathing Book

Augmented Reality Fiction: The city as roaming hyper media Preliminary stage to the roaming novel

What’s new

1. Infection: Further development of ARF and the first roaming novel and the first breathing book Thirty years in one night.
2. Between heaven and hell. Mind reading Hypermedia:
3. Development of Breathing Book hypermedia
4. Hyper Skin: narrative interweaving of psychophysiology and movement: Hypermedia discovered body language
5. An attempt to solve the hyperlink problem

I would also like to hank Bill Clinton for removing the limitations from GPS for public use. Now GPS devices costing only $150 provide average positioning accuracy of 2.5 meters are available.

Propaganda

Two problems have accompanied us since the very beginning at the end of the 80s:

1. The feeling that typical narrative formats such as films and novels do not take full advantage of the technical possibilities.
2. The link problem in Hyperfiction

It might be true that since James Joyces’ Ulysses everything has already been said, but only assuming that the medium is a book. Hypermedia, which understands body language, is just now being born and its limitations are not yet discernable.

And all attempts to break free from the structure of a novel using hypertext has resulted in loosing contact with the reader. It seems that one is only left with the culture of short story narrative.

Examples of this can be easily found. Techno culture has shown how music and movement can be melded together at a special location. We need a renewal of narrative technique from club culture and its DJs, MCs and locations and not from the culture of archivists.

The Hyperfiction of archivists is hermetically sealed to emotion, because the library metaphor of archivists and relational databases is not foresworn.

We have chosen to take a non-presumptive approach to states of mind using body language recognition as the foundation.

Transitions between the paradise of an osmotic penetration of reality using fiction, a spatial story and the hellish over-commercialization of omnipresent mobile services gives us a special kick.

Sure, we are excited about T-Motions upcoming LocationBasedEmotionalServices, but before this we would like to seize the moment, this little advantage we have, to inhale a bit of homebrewed digital soma, undisturbed by their Diktat.

The Breathing Book

Using a headset with a mike connected to the soundcard of a PC we tell a story, the outcome of which is dependent on the breathing rhythm of the participant. We use 4 audio channels to implement the phase shift techniques from minimal music. There are 2 additional channels, one used for text and ambient sounds and another for video loops.

The software provides 3 types of Hyperlinks.

1. Changes in breathing volume (impulsive link)
2. Changes in breathing rhythm (impulsive link)
3. Regularity of breathing (flow link)