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The Life Project
Fiona French, Faculty of Computing
OpenLab Workshops: Psychological projection into
technology
SPACE Studios, Hackney
DON’T SWITCH ME OFF!
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Concept / Brief
artists, designers, makers, musiciansinteractive ecosystem of machines
machine husbandry
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InspirationConway’s classic Game of Life
Cellular automata show emergence and self-organisation
Evidence in nature
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Hardware and software - £2500
Sensors, actuators, batteries, materials etc.
Jee-nodes – ATmega328p chip/processorwith four ports and wireless
OpenSource software
Technical
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Emotional AI
FEED ME!
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Proximity and mood
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LIGHTS, MUSIC (no ACTION)
Representation
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Communicating feelings
With each other… …and with sensors in environment
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IR Serial Communication
Photo Resistorreceives infra-redTo pin on Jeenode
micro-controller To 10k pull-up resistorto power
LED broadcastsinfra-red
To pin on Jeenodesending serialto LED GITHUB
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Patterns
Wireless to system - tracking data
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The Conversation
With people
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You scan a QR code, hit a URL … update a databaseread by a Processing app in SPACE Studios that can broadcast short-range wireless data to the appropriate Creature to feed it…
…and it links you to Creature’s twitter account
where you can see it tweeting “thank you” …
Feeding Time
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Tweets
Or you move creatures around...
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Teamwork
Concept art
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SkinsRecycle materialsCommunity involvement
Crafting Creatures
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Prototypes
Process, engagement with technology
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Happy cave
Antisocial forest
Surprise rocks
Where do we live?
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Environment
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Exhibition Showcase at SPACE13-14 Oct 2011
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EVA London 2012
Come and play with the prototypes at EVA London 201210-12 July, BCS
Fiona French [email protected]
http://lifeproject.spacestudios.org.uk/GITHUB repository