Reading Glove

"Joshua Tanenbaum (http://josh.thegeekmovement.com & https://transformativeplay.ics.uci.edu/) is an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California-Irvine, and the co-founder of the Transformative Play Lab. Karen Tanenbaum is a Project Scientist at UC Irvine in the Department of Informatics and is a founding member of the Transformative Play Lab." 

"Reading Glove takes interactive narrative into physical space through providing an RFID-enabled glove (powered by a Lilypad Arduino micro-controller) that 'talks' to a set of objects. The reader is thus enabled to physically explore a text through the memories embedded in objects, and reveals fragments of audio through each movement and interaction. The objects Reading Glove is designed to interact with are deliberately mundane yet filled with a sense of history: bottles, hats, a wine glass. The digital tagging of the objects is mostly hidden from view, and the glove is a digital interface disguised as a tangible object, placing the emphasis on the touch and exploration of artifacts as interface." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Three