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Sound Clouds: Exploring ambient intelligence in public spaces to elicit deep human experience of awe, wonder, and beauty

Published: October 17, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2510.15865v2

By: Chengzhi Zhang , Dashiel Carrera , Daksh Kapoor and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes art that plays music when you touch it.

Business Areas:
Intelligent Systems Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Science and Engineering

While the ambient intelligence (AmI) systems we encounter in our daily lives, including security monitoring and energy-saving systems, typically serve pragmatic purposes, we wonder how we can design and implement ambient artificial intelligence experiences in public spaces that elicit deep human feelings of awe, wonder, and beauty. As a manifestation, we introduce Sound Clouds, an immersive art installation that generates live music based on participants' interaction with several human-height spheres. Our installation serves as a provocation into future ambient intelligence that provokes, not limits, the future possibilities of AmI.

Country of Origin
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Page Count
4 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Human-Computer Interaction