- Human Thing RelationsNicholas Wallen / Domus Academy MID 2009

TOFUrobotic.media.mit.edu/projects/robots/tofu/overview/overview.html

“You, a human being, don’t want the cognitive burden of knowing what your host of objects is doing all the time. What you want is the executive briefing.”

-Bruce Sterling from Shaping Things

interaction with a smart thing

Friendship? Dependence? Worry?

Rage?

How might things understand people?

measurement of human emotionaffective tangiblesaffect.media.mit.edu/projects.php

?id=179

bio-mappingwww.biomapping.net/new.htm

machine-readable emotionsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Mark

up_Language

collective intelligencewww.newscientist.com/article/mg

20327267.900-robots-get-smarter-by-asking-for-help.html

How might people understand things?

entering in our communication channels

twitter.com/towerbridge

physical similaritieswww.pinktentacle.com/2009/09/m

iruko-wearable-eyeball-robot-interface/

behavioral mimicrynicholaswallen.com/tick-talk

manipulating stuff we care aboutwww.nearfuturelaboratory.com/project

s/slowmessenger/

Thank You