Dial a Book
CATEGORIES
Spatial Computing
AI Agents
TOOLS
Arduino Node.js Whisper ElevenLabs Projector Mapping
CLIENT
Concept Project
TEAM
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
CLIENT
Concept Project
TIME
Fall 2025
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
TEAM
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
MENTOR
William Martin Violet Whitney
Problem
Finding a book today in a library follows a rigid digital workflow:
Search a screen
Scan results
Walk through shelves
Locate the call number
But the best library experiences most people remember aren't transactional — they're conversational. A librarian who asked you three questions and handed you exactly the right book.
That librarian has largely disappeared. What replaced them is a search bar.
Solution
Dial a Book reimagines the act of finding a book — not as a search task, but as a conversation with a space.
When users watched the shelf respond to their voice for the first time, the reaction was immediate: "OMG!" Not because the technology was impressive — because their voice had visibly changed the room.
“I’ve always loved Aladdin’s lamp — rub it, and a genie appears. Dial a Book imagines the library in the same way: you pick up the phone, speak your wish, and the right book reveals itself.”
Yinyin Zhou
Dial a Book
CATEGORIES
Spatial Computing
AI Agents
TOOLS
Arduino Node.js Whisper ElevenLabs Projector Mapping
CLIENT
Concept Project
TEAM
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
CLIENT
Concept Project
TIME
Fall 2025
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
TEAM
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
MENTOR
William Martin Violet Whitney
Problem
Finding a book today in a library follows a rigid digital workflow:
Search a screen
Scan results
Walk through shelves
Locate the call number
But the best library experiences most people remember aren't transactional — they're conversational. A librarian who asked you three questions and handed you exactly the right book.
That librarian has largely disappeared. What replaced them is a search bar.
Solution
Dial a Book reimagines the act of finding a book — not as a search task, but as a conversation with a space.
When users watched the shelf respond to their voice for the first time, the reaction was immediate: "OMG!" Not because the technology was impressive — because their voice had visibly changed the room.
“I’ve always loved Aladdin’s lamp — rub it, and a genie appears. Dial a Book imagines the library in the same way: you pick up the phone, speak your wish, and the right book reveals itself.”
Yinyin Zhou
Dial a Book
CATEGORIES
Spatial Computing
AI Agents
TOOLS
Arduino Node.js Whisper ElevenLabs Projector Mapping
CLIENT
Concept Project
TEAM
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
CLIENT
Concept Project
TIME
Fall 2025
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
TEAM
Houpu Wang Xiaojie Wu
MENTOR
William Martin Violet Whitney
Problem
Finding a book today in a library follows a rigid digital workflow:
Search a screen
Scan results
Walk through shelves
Locate the call number
But the best library experiences most people remember aren't transactional — they're conversational. A librarian who asked you three questions and handed you exactly the right book.
That librarian has largely disappeared. What replaced them is a search bar.
Solution
Dial a Book reimagines the act of finding a book — not as a search task, but as a conversation with a space.
When users watched the shelf respond to their voice for the first time, the reaction was immediate: "OMG!" Not because the technology was impressive — because their voice had visibly changed the room.
“I’ve always loved Aladdin’s lamp — rub it, and a genie appears. Dial a Book imagines the library in the same way: you pick up the phone, speak your wish, and the right book reveals itself.”
Yinyin Zhou
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Thank you for viewing my work
Let’s build something meaningful
©Yinyin Zhou 2026. All rights reserved.
Created by Yinyin Zhou
Thank you for viewing my work
Let’s build something meaningful
©Yinyin Zhou 2026. All rights reserved.
Created by Yinyin Zhou