Scenarizing CADastre Exquisse: A Crossover between Snoezeling in Hospitals/Domes, and Authoring/Experiencing Soundful Comic Strips

This paper aims at providing scenarios for the design of authoring and experiencing environments for interactive soundful comic strips. One setting would be a virtual immersive environment made of a dome including spherical projection, surround sound, where visitors comfortably lying down on an interactive mattress can appreciate exquisite corpses floating on the ceiling of the dome, animated, with sound, dependent of the overall behavior of the visitors. On tabletops, creators can generate comic-strip-like creatures by collage or sketching, and associate audiovisual behaviors and soundscapes to these. This creation system will be used in hospitals towards a living lab comforting patients in accepting their health trip. Both settings are inspired by snoezelen methods. These crossover scenarios associate a project by L’Art-Chétype retained to be featured for Mons 2015 EU Capital of Culture and other partners aiming at designing an environment for experiencing/authoring interactive comic-strips augmented with sound.