Glowing Together and

the Wishing Wall

at the Cayton Children’s Museum

Heath Interactive developed new software, hardware, and sensor systems to create a platform for a multitude of possible interactions and discoveries, sound and lighting design and music and haptic mappings at the Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa Monica, California.

The Wishing Wall fabric senses proximity and touch, empowering personal reflections, dreams, and wishes to be transformed into light and sound experiences. This can be seen, heard, and felt along the fabric surface, and activated as patterns of glowing lights on the surrounding walls.
Many combinations of touch and proximity are possible to create endless experiences that embody the spirit of introspection, reflection, and connected, empathetic engagement with others.
The Glowing Together encourages cooperative and community interactions by accumulating touch inputs to affect the intensity and color of the lights along the entire wall.

Each touch zone of the Wishing Wall is made of conductive silver fabric and as the human body approaches, measures changes in electrical capacitance in the environment. This information is mapped and converted into changes in light intensity, color, sound, and even touch, or haptic feedback.

The light glows through the fabric and the sounds themselves come from the surface of the wall, vibrating onto the hand when touched.

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