MRS.
2014 // with Jennifer Wu, Koeun Lee
Primary tasks: schematics, assembly, presentation
MRS. is an interactive installation built for DATT 2000 Introduction to Physical Computing at YorkU. The installation is a screen based AI built on top of an Arduino Uno. The user can interact with MRS. through a keyboard made up of six different colored light beams. If MRS. detects movement around her, she will try to entice the user into playing the keyboard. However, MRS. will throw a tantrum if the user neglects her or plays incorrectly. What constitutes correctness is up to MRS.'s finicky tastes.
MRS. examines the Ego-state model of transactional analysis. In theory, humans tend to manifest their behavior in three states: parent, adult, or child. If they address a different state in each other, the communication often ends in error. When MRS. transitions between her different emotions, she is expressing herself using different states of the Ego-state model.
Showcased at Digital Media Exhibition 2015
Primary tasks: schematics, assembly, presentation
MRS. is an interactive installation built for DATT 2000 Introduction to Physical Computing at YorkU. The installation is a screen based AI built on top of an Arduino Uno. The user can interact with MRS. through a keyboard made up of six different colored light beams. If MRS. detects movement around her, she will try to entice the user into playing the keyboard. However, MRS. will throw a tantrum if the user neglects her or plays incorrectly. What constitutes correctness is up to MRS.'s finicky tastes.
MRS. examines the Ego-state model of transactional analysis. In theory, humans tend to manifest their behavior in three states: parent, adult, or child. If they address a different state in each other, the communication often ends in error. When MRS. transitions between her different emotions, she is expressing herself using different states of the Ego-state model.
Showcased at Digital Media Exhibition 2015