GENWAVE: Touch Reactive Sensors
MOYA Project is a site-specific interactive wall for a club night at Helmut List Halle. Six touch points—three per staircase—map to motion, color, and pattern. Touch signals travel from conductive pads through Arduino over Wi-Fi to Max for processing, then to TouchDesigner for real-time visuals. As left and right groups play, both halves synchronize and merge, transforming entry into a collaborative icebreaker rather than a passive queue.
2025
2 Months
Interactive Projection
Team
Seymur Mammadov
Jakob Schnurrer
Sopio Archilia
Challenge
We had to build an end-to-end pipeline with unfamiliar tools (Max + TouchDesigner) and noisy capacitive sensing. Venue realities crowd flow, lighting, power, closed Wi-Fi router, Multi-user input conflicts. We addressed this with rapid prototypes, signal smoothing and debouncing, per-pad state machines, calibration scripts, and clear “cause-and-effect” visual feedback. On-site tests refined thresholds, ensured safe affordances, and prevented one user from dominating the shared canvas.
Results
The installation consistently drew groups to “play the stairs,” prompting laughter, filming, and conversation that carried into the venue—exactly the social icebreaker intended. Touch responsiveness felt immediate, and the left/right animations visibly fused when both sides collaborated. We delivered a stable patch pipeline, a deployment checklist, and reusable TouchDesigner components and Max patches, enabling quick reinstallation and lowering the technical barrier for future event iterations.
Testing
Product Development
How it looks from the inside
Stack
Github Access
Project Files
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Conclusion
MOYA shows how embodied, collaborative interaction can convert liminal space into social glue. The project strengthened my systems thinking from sensing to networking, signal conditioning, and generative art while surfacing key UX levers: obvious affordances, instant feedback, and shared goals that reward cooperation.