This proposal suggests creating a stress-reducing immersive environment that simulates the sensation of water and light reflection through the use of technology. A participant would control vibrations in a "water pouch" above a light source by wearing an accelerometer sensor, creating changing light reflections on the ceiling. The goal is to explore immersive concepts and their applications through an interactive installation that allows one to control the extent of their immersion in a calming, blacked-out space.

1. Proposal for FMP Exhibition For Myles Leadbetter, Project Advisor

2. Idea: To create a stress-free relaxing immersive environment, influenced by the sensation of water and the reflections of light on water to offer design potential in entertainment, educational or therapeutic fields

3. Components Inputs connection of a “lilypad” accelerometer (worn by a seated or reclining participant who waves the “lilypad”) to an arduino Outputs a vibration motor attached to a “water pouche” or dish suspended over a light source which projects light above

4. Aims: to extend the philosophical ideas of the “Phantom Ball” to explore the phenomenological concept of immersion & apply them to the exhibition

5. Immersive Space A blacked-out environment is to be created (a quiet zone, though audio could be introduced in appropriate extended projects) for the participant to control the extent of the “immersive experience” by kinetic information being transmitted to the vibration motor, which, in turn controls the light-reflection on the “ceiling” of the space