Abstract:
We present a small episode describing how a young girl meet a swarm of GlowBots for the very first time.
The film-clip was captured at the Emerging Technologies exhibition, SIGGRAPH 2007, where we experienced an overwhelming attention with more than five thousand visitors laying their hands on our group of GlowBots. In this particular case the young girl is instructed by a staff member and immediately starts to play with the robots. She is really touched by the beautiful patterns showing on their round LED-displays and picks them up, shake them and gently puts them back down. Her interaction with the robot encourages it to wonder off and communicate its pattern with other robots. The result is an ongoing dialog between the robots about the latest fashion in attractive patterns. The robotic design is based on a previous study where we interviewed owners of rather unusual pets such as snakes, spiders and lizards. We have then tried to transfer some of the qualities found in their interaction and relationships with their pets to explore the design-space in everyday robotics. GlowBots is the first proof-of-concept robotic implementation that came as a direct result from this study.
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