Q3: What element/s made this interactive art successful in engaging you

Question 3:

What element/s made this interactive art successful in engaging you? (4%)

This interactive art uses the combination of touch and light as the main element. Both of the elements works simultaneously to create a great effect. The touch element creates the movement of the lights displayed on the sphere. It most likely uses the concept as generating super powers to move things around and uses the concept of magnet and iron powder for the movements of lights. The light will be generate and it will follows the movements that the user made. The color of lights also contributed a lot in attracting the my attention by using the sight senses.  Like we can see at the first 3 seconds of the video, when the user moves his hand, it creates the movement like he is pushing the little lights away and the lights move in a way like there are floating in the sphere. It allow the user to move around and free to express our feeling on the sphere to create the effects from all around the sphere. The uses of the 'multi-touch' concept from the touch elements creates a bigger excitement where more than one movement can be done at the same time. By combining certain movements is will creates another unique effects that will blew our mind.

The magnet and iron powder concept which the hands act as the magnet while the scattered  lights as the iron powder that attracts and repels to the magnets.

Source: first4magnets.com

Screenshot from the video where the multi-touch occurs and the movement of lights collide with each other to create another new light movement.