Landscape Rippling: Context-based water-mediated interaction design

With a core purpose of helping users to understand the context, a water interface provides possibility for enhancing user experience in interaction process. Starting from analyzing existing water-mediated interaction approaches, we proposed a water-mediated interaction design model and a corresponding user experience model, aiming to eliminate the boundary between users and the context with water as the medium. According to the proposed model, we implemented a water-mediated interaction system Landscape Rippling, with the painting “A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains” as its context. Ultimately, user experience tests of the interaction system demonstrate the effectiveness of this water-mediated interaction design model.