
Kelly Dobson at Gel 2008
9 months ago
After communicating with Blendie, her custom-built voice-activated blender, Kelly starts with a great first line - "I work with machines" - and goes on to describes her unique vision for human-machine interaction.
Kelly's genius is building machines to respond to natural cues, like the frazzled screams in ScreamBody -
youtube.com/watch?v=4CZgaCbjDXo
(this footage is also in her Gel talk) or normal breathing, as with the empathic Omo device. User interfaces this elegant are incredibly rare; it's worth considering how these patterns - natural cues, radical empathy - could be applied to other experiences.
Kelly's website shows more of her work -
web.media.mit.edu/~monster/
Kelly's genius is building machines to respond to natural cues, like the frazzled screams in ScreamBody -
youtube.com/watch?v=4CZgaCbjDXo
(this footage is also in her Gel talk) or normal breathing, as with the empathic Omo device. User interfaces this elegant are incredibly rare; it's worth considering how these patterns - natural cues, radical empathy - could be applied to other experiences.
Kelly's website shows more of her work -
web.media.mit.edu/~monster/
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