"Neon" Digipainting: Modeling Electronic Arts and Ubiquitous Computing in a Virtual Environment

In this paper we introduce a system prototype in which traditional human-computerinterface is hidden inside electronic art pieces in the home environment. In this prototypean electronic art piece acts as a communication device as well as an artistic artefact. Theproposed environment consists of: (1) a piece of electronic art which is a so calleddigipainting "Neon" and (2) mobile artefacts such as intelligent clothing, intelligentbadges, i-buttons, mobile phones, PDAs and toys. We also introduce how the whole systemis modelled first in a virtual environment. The virtual environment system will also handledifferent kind of sensors in real-time.