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WHERE IS THE LINE BETWEEN HAVING EMPATHY FOR INANIMATE OBJECTS AND HAVING NONE ?

For inspiration I tried to read some articles about empathy for inanimate objects. I found an article about an experiment done in the states where they let a robot beg the user not to turn them off. The only task in the experiment was to turn the robot off. The people conducting the experiment had a hard time doing so.

https://theamericanscholar.org/empathy-for-inanimate-objects/

While getting coffee Anna and I started small talking about the self directed project. We wondered if we could work together due to our perfect teamwork during the mapping. We started discussing our facinations and immediatly found out we both had one about empathy and objects. The deal was done and we decided to work together!

As soon as we could start we started brainstorming on how to actually make a plan out of this. We wanted to experiment how objects create empathy. We made a few points what we could change per object

- texture
- color
- sound
- movement
- shape

THE FIRST STEPS

With the first brainstorm done we had to find out what kind of object we will use. We tried to look for an object that has no use. After some thinking I figured it was way too hard of thinking of a useless product.. because all products are made with a certain type of use. This is why we decided to start and make boxes. Boxes with different textures, colors, movements, shapes. We bought some MDF en lasercut a bunch of boxes!
These were made with the tool ; makerscase. To make the pieces fit tight together we changed the kerf to 1.5