@><#!!! is a surface of an arbitrary machine communicating on an emotional level with the humans. It tries to make internal processes visible by an alteration of its surface structure and to react on interaction. The result is a playful handling, starting with a cautious approach, smooth movements, checking out the possibilities. When the interaction gets more intense, the machine will get overtaxed and show stronger reactions. In the end: total refusal, plays dead, it needs a break; until the next user wil
To work and handle with machines we need an interface as a tool to communicate. We need it to say what the machine has to do and the machine need it to express the internal state. Our plan was to create a machine with emotional expression of its internal process or condition. We wanted to make it visible by an alteration of its shape and structure, to make an emotional communication between human and machine possible and that the machine is able to express: "Hey, I’m overtaxed. Please come down, give me a b
This machine and its alteration of shape and structure to react on interaction has to be as simple and abstract as possible. So we decided to use just a metaphor of a machine, its surface, a two dimensional object. We use a metal coated foil, which crinkle strongly and results abstract, interesting and inorganic random structures. Simple motion patterns emphasize the abstraction. The golden color of the foil gains extra attention. The final result simulates a living object with feelings, action and reaction