Wei Jun 魏俊
Doctor/ HCI Researcher
LATEST PROJECTS
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Project |Food Media
The Foodie system integrates the social message creation with food printing technology to provide a new way of social messaging. It enables users to share their emotions and feelings by designing, and teleporting different food messages globally through the proposed network. Furthermore, the communication architecture is designed as an interoperable platform to attach any system which uses food as the medium by designing standardized protocol. The food messages can either be designed layer by layer to convey a story to the recipient or the properties of designed food message like taste, facilitate recipients to experience the meaning by consuming it.
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Project |Co-Dining System (Kitchen Media)
Beyond simply a place to consume food, the dining room is a social hub where family members meet and share experiences. Yet busy lifestyles can make it difficult to spend social time with your family. To provide a new solution for family bonding, we presents the CoDine system, a dining table embedded with interactive subsystems that augment and transport the experience of communal family dining to create a sense of coexistence among remote family members. It connects people in different locations through shared dining activities: gesture-based screen interaction, mutual food serving, ambient pictures on an animated tablecloth, and the transportation of edible messages. Rather than focusing on functionality or efficiency, CoDine aims to provide people with an engaging interactive dining experience through enriched multi-sensory communication. This project was partially funded by NEC C&C Research Lab in Japan.
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Project |Confucius Computer
Confucius computer is a new form of illogical computing that models Confucius' mind and personality. It enables users to experience his historic teachings and philosophies through modern, everyday activities like online chatting. Based on a model of Eastern thinking and teaching, users can chat and engage in social-network communication with a strict and illogical friend: Confucius. Based on deep modeling of ancient cultural teachings and philosophies, Confucius Computer provides a personalized experience of traditional thought using computing technology in an interactive and dynamic way. It presents a new form of culture technology that models Confucian teachings and philosophies, which are radically different from the ancient Greek logic normally experienced in computing.
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