HeartSway: Exploring Biodata as Poetic Traces in Public Space

This is the source code for our publication at DIS ’26. Please also see our publication at ACM DL and arXiv.

The raspi-control subfolder is to be executed on a Raspberry Pi (tested on Raspberry Pi 4), and arduino-object is to be uploaded to an Arduino (tested on Arduino Uno).

Citation

@inproceedings{10.1145/3800645.3813022,
  author = {Huang, Zeyu and Guo, Zhifan and Li, Xingyu and Ma, Xiaojuan and Howell, Noura},
  title = {HeartSway: Exploring Biodata as Poetic Traces in Public Space},
  year = {2026},
  isbn = {9798400725630},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3813022},
  doi = {10.1145/3800645.3813022},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference},
  pages = {1479–1493},
  numpages = {15},
  keywords = {biodata, urban traces, public amenity, heart rate, embodied interactions},
  series = {DIS '26}
}