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Flower Sermon: An Interactive Visual Design Using IoTtalk

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IoTtalk is a platform for IoT device interaction, which has been used to develop many IoT applications such as home automation. This paper uses Flower Sermon artwork as an example to show how interactive visual design can be conveniently implemented in IoTtalk. The Flower Sermon artwork conducts cyber physical interaction, which animates a dandelion in a mirror when a person smiles at that mirror. The dandelion grows larger as the person smiles bigger. The flower also vibrates following the heartbeat rate of the person. In our approach, the camera detecting the face expression and the heartbeat rate is considered as an input IoT device, and the mirror display for dandelion animation is considered as an output IoT device. In IoTtalk, the features of the dandelion animation are considered as the actuators that can be independently controlled. IoTtalk nicely connects these IoT devices, where various features can be created for interactive visual design with little or without any programming effort. We also measure the time complexity for data delivery among the input and the output IoT devices. Our study indicates that the time delays are less than 0.07 s on the average even if the IoTtalk server is located in a cloud.

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The first version of Dandelion1 is implemented by Qing Liu. This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology under Grant 106-2221-E-009 -006 and Grant 106-2221- E-009 -049 -MY2, in part by the Ministry of Education through the SPROUT Project-Center for Open Intelligent Connectivity, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in part by Academia Sinica under Grant AS-105-TP-A07, and in part by the Ministry of Economic Affairs under Grant 106-EC-17-A-24-0619.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30010, Taiwan

    Chung-Yun Hsiao, Yi-Bing Lin & Yun-Wei Lin

  2. Center of General Education and College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

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Hsiao, CY., Huang, CC., Lin, YB. et al. Flower Sermon: An Interactive Visual Design Using IoTtalk. Mobile Netw Appl 24, 724–735 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1086-z

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