Phone candy is a video and audio link through space. Audio is captured at remote ends and rendered graphically on a portable device at each end.
Each person's audio space is depicted by a chain of beads. Volume and pitch of each audio space are captured in real-time. Volume is mapped to the size of the circles in the chain. Pitch is mapped to saturation color in the circles of the chain. The longer the chain, the longer that person has been connected. When audiospace parameters are similar, the chains mingle in the same graphical space.
The goal of phone candy is to visualize patterns in public and private audio spaces and the relationship between them: activity levels, aural dominance, rhythm, conversation, partner spaces, and connection.