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A MOTIONAL INSTRUMENTFOR EMOTIONAL ELEMENTS

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Animism encompasses religious beliefs that there is no separation

between the spiritual and physical (or material) worlds, andsouls or

spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants,

rocks, or other entities of the natural environment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual

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People have long been fascinated by the idea

of controlling the spirits in nature. In the

future technology makes this even easier.

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Initial Sketch

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How and why your system uses animism

The idea of animism manifests itself in

the idea that these raw materials contain

spirits of the natural world. Because they

contain spirits they can be harnessed in a

(non-musical) instrument and used for

our own entertainment and performance(like circus animals).

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But because they are spirits they arefickle and temperamental, this instrument

could not be controlled in a traditional

way. The performance of the materials

would be dependent upon the whims of

the spirits, which you can attempt to

influence by interacting with a raw

material in various (& mysterious) ways.

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How is the animism expressed, what is

the purpose of the animism?

Though we never know exactly what thespirits want from us, we can get a sense

of the spirits judgement of our actions

through the analog meter.

This helps us gauge the effectiveness of

our actions as feedback. The raw

materials would also perform (move orsplash or light up) in different ways

depending on the mood.

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Why will people think that your project

is alive, how does animism influence

the interaction?

The output from the system (readings from

the meter and the kinetic expressions) are

not directly responsive to the user in a

one-to-one fashion.

The user must interpret the spiritsresponses to the users actions, and adapt

their own interaction in an attempt to

influence the performance of the spirits.

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Other sub-elements Im interested in:

Kinetic/gesture based interfaces

In a future where gestures and kinetics

are the new interfaces for complex

devices, how will I know what gestures

do what?

When does it become a sort of rain dance

where we are just coming up with

mythologies to understand the

effectiveness of our actions?

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Other sub-elements Im interested in:

Embodied Interaction

What are the affordances of animate raw

materials as both an interface for and an

expression of poetic motions?

Can future interactive interfaces be made

of physical 3D space/objects instead of

simulated 3D environments on a screen?

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Other sub-elements Im interested in:

Instruments

A musicalinstrument is a device created or

adapted for the purpose of making musical

sounds. In principle, any object that

produces soundcan serve as a musical

instrumentit is through purpose that the

object becomes a musicalinstrument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound

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Other sub-elements Im interested in:

Instruments

A motionalinstrument is a device created

or adapted for the purpose of making

poetic motion. In principle, any object that

produces motion can serve as a motional

instrumentit is through purpose that the

object becomes a motionalinstrument.

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