My digital-physical project for the mashup assignment is called Cat DJ.
Unlike how humans who can use verbal languages to express their emotions, cats have their own way to communicate: their tails. Pet behaviorists have found that cats use the motion and position of their tails to show their emotions to the cat owner and other cats. But not every pet owner can understand this language as a pet behaviorist and know the feeling from their lovely cat.
I was looking for a project that can connect physical cat languages to something that can also express the same mood and at the same time let people better understand. Then I found music maybe the best way.
(Original sketches)
CAT DJ has two components: a physical tail ring to record the motion of the tail and a music player system that can detect and transform this motion into different kinds of music types to express the cat’s mood. When a cat wears this physical tail ring, the kinesthetic data recorded by the sensor on the cat’s tail will be transcribed to a motion graph and then transferred onto a voice frequency graph. The final graph will automatically select appropriate music that conveys the cats mood. If transferring the motion graph to voice frequency graph sounds too hard, cat owners can just simply classify the music they like manually into different groups that are compatible with the tail’s motion from the digital ring.
The interface design of Cat DJ music player.
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