TouchMeDare is an interactive music installation that elicits exploration and meetings with strangers through mutual touch.
Bodily contact (on both sides of the canvas) activates music samples, enabling an explorative search through music and intimate cooperation.

TouchMeDare has been successfully implemented and evaluated on the Lowlands festival (55.000 visitors), and on various other occasions.

Publications:

• Meeting Duet; Challenging People into a Body Language of Meeting – Proceedings of DeSForM 2006
• Meeting by Moving, Mediated through Music – Journal of Urban Computing and Mobile Devices 2007
• Contact Through Canvas, An Entertaining Encounter – Journal of Pers. and Ubiq. Computing 2009
• IDzine – TU/e ID news letter
• Daily Paradise – Lowlands festival program guide 2007

Exhibitions:

• Design United 2006 – Dutch Design Week Exhibition (Meeting Duet prototype)
• Design United 2007 – Dutch Design Week Exhibition  (TouchMeDare prototype)
• DeSForM conference 2006
• Lowlands festival 2007 (55.000 visitors)
• TU/e open house 2007
• Opening /d.search-labs 2006
• Inaugural lecture Prof. Overbeeke 2007
• V2 Test_LAB multimodal

Original project team: Koen van Boerdonk, Eva Deckers, Hugo Nagtzaam, Jesper Schwachofer, Rob Tieben
Continued by: Koen van Boerdonk, Rob Tieben
Coach: Sietske Klooster, Elise van den Hoven
Client: Eric van Eerdenburg, Mojo Concerts