An interactive experience that brings your mind to life through movement. Users follow guided prompts to relax, the visuals shift and respond, creating a calming, reflective journey.

Objective 01
Create and compile a design solution or creative project that explores your passion within the field of media design
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Objective 02
Develop knowledge across different media or design disciplines, which gives you opportunity to integrate new methodologies into your current practice

How can motion & interactive design be utilised to create immersive experiences that promote mental relaxation and reduce stress?

Through researching digital stress, the neurological effects of music, and user interaction in installations, I gained key insights into how to design a highly engaging and meaningful experience.

Four key installations inspired my project, each demonstrating different ways that interactivity and sensory elements can create meaningful and engaging experiences.

Exploring motion controlled visuals using TouchDesigner, I looked into leveraging its capabilities to create dynamic, real-time interactions between physical movement and digital visuals. Using a plugin that utilised the laptop's camera feed, hand movements and gestures were tracked and captured in real time. The TouchDesigner plugin then processed this input, converting it into a usable dataset capable of controlling the visual elements.

To enhance the visual impact of the sphere, the post-processing effects were refined using tools like edge blur and bloom.

The final result was an interactive experience that brings your mind to life through movement. Users follow guided prompts to relax, the visuals shift and respond, creating a calming, reflective journey.

This project explored the potential of motion and interactive design to create immersive experiences that promote mental relaxation and reduce stress.