Black-boxing the user: internet protocol over xylophone players (IPoXP)
This work addresses the problem of redefining human roles in networking for researchers in human-computer interaction, but it appears incremental as it adapts existing protocols to a whimsical interface.
The paper tackles the problem of human-computer interaction by introducing IP over Xylophone Players (IPoXP), a novel Internet protocol that uses xylophone-based Arduino interfaces to transmit data between computers via human operators striking keys, resulting in an inversion of traditional interaction modes.
We introduce IP over Xylophone Players (IPoXP), a novel Internet protocol between two computers using xylophone-based Arduino interfaces. In our implementation, human operators are situated within the lowest layer of the network, transmitting data between computers by striking designated keys. We discuss how IPoXP inverts the traditional mode of human-computer interaction, with a computer using the human as an interface to communicate with another computer.