Origin of Me / Lights of the Body

Two interactive installations in the sexual education exhibition organized by MAYLOVE and sponsored by PLUCK.

Photo of the exhibition icon by PLUCK/MAYLOVE

“The Origin of Me” —— Understanding Contraception

An interactive exploration helping the audience gain an understanding of different contraceptive methods through a hands-on gaming experience, acquiring awareness of safety in the explorations of life in the future. Mainly worked on redesigning interactive processes based on existing ideas and the technical implementation.

After the finish of the exhibition, the game was published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0^🪐 licence. It can be played here.

A few screenshots

“Traffic Lights of the Body” —— Awareness of Privacy in Physical Contact

An interactive device where parts of “the body textbook” can be lit by waving hands in front of it. The different colours of light reveal the understandings by the children regarding the privacy of their own bodies. Mainly worked on the technical implementation.

Onsite photo by PLUCK/MAYLOVE

The hardware was implemented by STM32 with infrared proximity sensors, assembled in the school and mailed to Shenzhen. Later into the project I got distressed due to the tight time schedule, so I invited a friend Bw as the external assistance as a welder. Through the project was also a lot of help from the club next door as well as the support from friends. Trying hard to think of ways to repay them.

However, remote collaboration was way more challenging then expected. Due to my own lack of experience, a lot of tough problems arose and the gestural interactions did not work out in the end. The light belts were replaced with always-on ones. It was regretful to have created tremendous hassle (especially for others) without a satisfying outcome ._.

Revised iteration of the installation: Traffic Lights of the Body (2023).