Participants from Chiba University working remotely with students from Yonsei University & Zhejiang University.
Objectives of Design Workshop
During this workshop, designers and plants worked with machine learning models to create generative visual elements capable to communicate emotions. Modern AI and machine learning generative models represent an exiting opportunity for designers to conceptualize and explore the generation of new communication tools and applications. Through this methods, interaction withing humans and other living beings as plants can be enhanced.
Topic
During this Workshop, students worked online with a Plant as a TeamMate. The plant is connected to a sensor in order to capure information about it's condition like humidity and temperature. Using the plant real-time information, the design team proposed a way to interpret this data in order to communicate emotions. By introducing students into Generative Machine Learning from a designer's perspective, the proposed workshop aims to promote the generation of new emotion-based icons and interfaces for human - plant communication and interaction. This approach can result in new proposals for emoticons, stamps and icons, user interfaces, apps, services and products.
