FINA
"FINA (Fluid-HMI Inspired by NAture)" is an interface that aims to relay the environmental information that the car likely feels by mapping information on the driver’s body, especially on the upper limb directly in contact with the steering wheel. The projected images are not of explicit information such as words and numbers, but rather reflect changes in the field, appealing directly to bodily sensation, projecting a real-time organic image configured with elements inspired by natural phenomena such as wind, droplets, light, particles and smoke.
Through the sensuous language of the video, the organic synchronicity between human and car body results in a body image recognizing the car as part of the body serving also to physicalize at a deeper level the scale and dimensions of the vehicle. With this approach, one can attain an effective, sensory familiarity with the vehicle width, with practical scenarios involving the induction of speed and steering on the horizon.
Toyota InfoTechnology Center + Keio Univeristy Wakita Lab.
Design Project
TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center brings together individuals from different backgrounds, cultures, and thinking styles to work at the forefront of the rapidly-changing IT industry. This is why we can invent, apply, develop, and deliver breakthrough analysis, processes, and technologies.
Keio Univerisity’s Wakita Lab focuses on the visualization of the information in nature which we cannot perceive in daily life by making use of graphics programming and physical simulations.



