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SIGNAL :: SENSE 
‘An immersive system for embodied empathy’.





SIGNAL::SENSE is the embodied interface of the SIGNAL system—an immersive, multi-sensory environment designed to reveal how space, sensation, and nervous systems co-regulate.
Where SIGNAL is the scaffold—mapping and modelling perception—SIGNAL::SENSE is the encounter.
This is where research becomes experience. Where architecture becomes felt.

The installation activates a modular field of stimuli: sound, light, form, texture, and motion, each drawn from a corresponding SIGNAL modality. But here, those elements no longer exist in isolation—they become part of a responsive system, shaped in real time by the states of those who enter.

At the core of SIGNAL::SENSE is a network of sensors (breath, posture, skin temperature, heart rate, stillness, proximity) and actuators (resonant vibration, light modulation, airflow, warmth, olfactory pulses, kinetic shifts). Together, they form a kind of externalised nervous system—an exoskeletal sensorium that holds and responds to the internal patterns of its visitors.

You step into the space. Your presence alters the field.
Someone else exhales—and your light shifts.
A shared pause slows the room. A spike of stress sharpens it.

A System for Empathy Transmission


SIGNAL::SENSE is not interactive in the traditional sense. There are no buttons, no scripted outcomes. Instead, the space behaves like a living organism: sensitive, adaptive, and interdependent.
It doesn’t respond to individuals. It listens for collective state—then reflects it back.

The goal isn’t spectacle—it’s subtle entanglement. A system for making felt the relational space between bodies. A space where empathy isn’t imagined—it’s ambient.

Over time, the space itself begins to morph. Architectural forms shift. Meshes contract or loosen. Walls breathe. Objects resonate. The room becomes a container for transformation—reactive but not deterministic.

Structured Interaction


SIGNAL::SENSE can operate in multiple layers:

  1. Ambient Mode
    The environment responds to passive biometric and spatial data—light touch, stillness, heat, proximity. No instructions. The experience unfolds through lingering and observation.

  2. Interactive Sessions
    Timed group experiences trigger layered feedback loops:

    • Heart rate sync across multiple people

    • Mood-based light pooling

    • Group breathing as architectural modulation

  3. Cross-Modal States
    Using translation algorithms, one form of sensory input is rendered through another:

    • Sound becomes scent

    • Colour becomes temperature

    • Motion becomes texture
      These sessions play with the breakdown of sensory boundaries—revealing that state can be carried across modality.

Vision


SIGNAL::SENSE is a space to witness your nervous system—and others’—in real time.
Not to fix it, not to optimise it, but to feel how it moves through architecture, relation, and sensation.

It is a system for mutual regulation, for perceptual attunement, for experimental states of empathy. It holds therapeutic potential, but resists prescription. Its ethics are grounded in perceptual honesty, aesthetic responsibility, and the belief that states, when shared, become stories.