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Heart Calligraphy: an Abstract Portrait Inside the Body

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Heart Calligraphy is a biofeedback installation that creates abstract portraits of participants with their heartbeat data using a pen plotter. The real-time heart rate is mapped to the basic parameters of the pen's behaviors, namely speed, position, pressure and pen-down time. Due to the natural variability in heart rate, every portrait becomes personal and unique graphic, which reflects the natural biorhythm inside human body. The installation explores the role of the body as a channel through which physiology manifests itself in a form of beauty.

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    TEI '16: Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
    February 2016
    820 pages
    ISBN:9781450335829
    DOI:10.1145/2839462
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    1. Biofeedback
    2. artistic visualization
    3. heart rate variability
    4. pen plotter

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