Meet TweetChime
Posted: December 3rd, 2009 | Author: Cindy | Filed under: ITP | Tags: Add new tag, Intro to Computational Media, Physical Computing, TweetChime | No Comments »TweetChime Live Demo from cindy wong on Vimeo.
Helping people overcome long distances, TweetChime is a melodic chime that communicates people’s sentiments and transmits them into melody. So, no matter where you are, you can let your loved ones know you’re thinking of them and they can hear your sentiment in real-time in sound. By using Twitter, you can send your preferred sentiment, anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
In this case, in the video above, my brother, Pat has sent me this coded message: “@tweetchime [dinnertime] awww yeah!” Why? Because he has an odd sense of humor from living in Mobile, Al. which somehow is lost on me in New York City. Ah, family.
Who Could Use TweetChime?
TweetChime is great for ambient contact technology. In other words, you can keep yourself open to others without them having to actively message you (through phone/IM/email). Vice versa, they can quickly tweet you and have the satisfaction of knowing that you will hear their tweet melody in real time on your side. The TweetChime is unobtrusive and (if prototyped further) can blend into your household.
- Long distance friends/family
- Parents who want to communicate with their kids (who can’t read time, distinguish technology)
- Visually Impaired
Interact with TweetChime:
Would you like to send a sentiment to me? Please tweet to @tweetchime, the TweetChime’s Twitter account.
How to Send: TweetChime recognizes the coded message within the brackets [ ]. The TweetChime website will scan Twitter’s search results looking for messages aimed at @tweetchime.
I have programmed a reply that TweetChime can recognize from a Twitter message. Choose your choice below:
- @tweetchime [be happy]
- @tweetchime [congratulations]
- @tweetchime [missing you]
- @tweetchime [holla]
- @tweetchime [coming home]
- @tweetchime [dinner time]
ex: cwong08 says: “@tweetchime [dinner time] Mom is serving mashed potatoes and turkey! Mmmm!
TweetChime will be searching for all mentions of itself (@tweetchime) through Twitter’s public search time line. When it finds the coded tweet (1 of the 6 above), it’ll understand it and output into a short melody that the TweetChime owner will understand.
See It In Action