2022 Galleries
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Galleries // 2022 Spark:Spring Student // The Looking Glass Speaker
The Looking Glass Speaker
Finalist
Competition: Spark:Spring Student
Designer: Ra Seung Hwan - designer
Design Type: Concept, Product & industrial
Company / Organization / School: Hongik University
Team Members: Ra Seung Hwan
The looking glass speaker is an ai bluetooth speaker based on FER, the facial emotion recognition technology. Modern generation listens to music not just for its auditory charm, but because they have their own emotional connection to their beloved songs. TLG speaker aims to provide users with emotional support, by suggesting songs they never knew they needed. This leads to psychological benefits including enhanced concentration, capability of handling sadness and etc. The speaker is mounted on wall and there is a mirror-like panel assisted with a soft display, users are recommended to synchronize personal acoustic applications with speaker, so TLG knows what its owner listens to and like. In 'mirror' mode, TLG speaker analyzes user's facial expression and linguifies current emotional state. Then, speaker searches from user's preferred playlist for songs with appropriate keywords & vibes, finally playing the right music with the right vibe for the right moment. TLG's mirror-like design delivers the feeling of looking into unseen side of your good self and getting perfectly personalizied help. Look in to the mirror, make a face and talk to yourself. This time you will get a song back, and it is going to sound nice.
