NDLI: Blendie

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Dobson, Kelly
Abstract	Blendie is an interactive, sensitive, intelligent, voice controlled blender with a mind of its own. Materials are a 1950's Osterizer blender altered with custom made hardware and software for sound analysis and motor control. People induce the blender to spin by sounding the sounds of its motor in action. If they make their voice sufficiently blender-like, then Blendie will begin to pitch-track and power-match their voice with its own motor body. For example, a person may growl low pitch blender-like sounds to get it to spin slowly, and the person may growl blenderstyle at higher pitches to speed up Blendie. The experience for the participant is to speak the language of the machine, to resonate with the machine, and thus to more deeply understand and connect with it. The action may also bring about personal revelations in the participant, because in sounding with the blender one is likely to perform gesture and sound expressions not previously accessed which may open up unfound emotions or thoughts or feelings. An empathic opportunity is made manifest emphasizing and utilizing the aspects of motorized machines that are not what have been traditionally designed into them intentionally - i.e. their incredible sound and vibration - but that nevertheless have large roles in our interaction and approach to them. http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie.
Starting Page	309
Ending Page	309
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581137877
DOI	10.1145/1013115.1013159
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2004-08-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Dsp Interactive art Psychotherapy Empathy Artificial intelligence Voice controlled Machine therapy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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