mutsugoto (2004)
a body-drawing communicator for distant partners


Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis, Matthew Karau,
and Ciaran McGrath

Mutsugoto is an intimate communication device placed in the bedroom environment. Instead of exchanging e-mail or SMS messages using generic interfaces in business-like venues, Mutsugoto allows distant partners to communicate through the language of touch as expressed on the canvas of the human body. A specialized computer vision and projection system allows users to write or draw on their own bodies while laying in bed. Drawings made by one partner are transmitted to and revealed on the body of the remote partner.


Produced at the Media Lab Europe(partner of MIT), Dublin, Ireland




  video (quicktime, 29Mb) Chris Egglestone

Images from the Mutsugoto installation
Victoria & Albert Museum, Touch Me exhibition, June-Aug. 2005