Whispering Water: Materializing Human-AI Dialogue as Interactive Ripples
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| author | Wang, Ruipeng Safi, Tawab Wen, Yunge Cunningham, Christina Tang, Hoi Ling Farahi, Behnaz |
| author_facet | Wang, Ruipeng Safi, Tawab Wen, Yunge Cunningham, Christina Tang, Hoi Ling Farahi, Behnaz |
| contents | Across cultures, water has served as a recipient of human confession, a yielding medium that receives vulnerability where rigid surfaces cannot. We present Whispering Water, an interactive installation that materializes human-AI dialogue through cymatic patterns on water. Participants confess secrets to a water surface, triggering a four-phase ritual: confession, contemplation, response, and release. The user's speech sentiment is directly transmitted into the water to prime its state, while semantic content enters a multi-agent system, initiating ripples of conversation where agent identities are situated through discourse and voice profiles are chosen based on what they say. We propose a novel algorithm that decomposes speech into component waves and reconstructs them in water, establishing a translation between speech and the physics of material form. By rendering machine reasoning as emergent physical phenomena, the installation explores possibilities for emotional self-exploration through ambiguous, sensory-rich interfaces. |
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| spellingShingle | Whispering Water: Materializing Human-AI Dialogue as Interactive Ripples Wang, Ruipeng Safi, Tawab Wen, Yunge Cunningham, Christina Tang, Hoi Ling Farahi, Behnaz Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia Across cultures, water has served as a recipient of human confession, a yielding medium that receives vulnerability where rigid surfaces cannot. We present Whispering Water, an interactive installation that materializes human-AI dialogue through cymatic patterns on water. Participants confess secrets to a water surface, triggering a four-phase ritual: confession, contemplation, response, and release. The user's speech sentiment is directly transmitted into the water to prime its state, while semantic content enters a multi-agent system, initiating ripples of conversation where agent identities are situated through discourse and voice profiles are chosen based on what they say. We propose a novel algorithm that decomposes speech into component waves and reconstructs them in water, establishing a translation between speech and the physics of material form. By rendering machine reasoning as emergent physical phenomena, the installation explores possibilities for emotional self-exploration through ambiguous, sensory-rich interfaces. |
| title | Whispering Water: Materializing Human-AI Dialogue as Interactive Ripples |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18934 |