Extra Paper #7

Reference:
Robotany: Breeze
Jill Coffin
Proceeding CHI EA '10 Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems

Summary:

This paper describes Breeze, a live roboticized tree.  Breeze is part of a research program called Robotany, which uses techno-organic artifacts to study technology-human interaction.  Breeze was exhibited in Switzerland and in San Jose in 2006 as two different types of trees.  Visitor interaction with Breeze is interpreted through a series of narratives. These narratives yield results with implications for human-computer interaction research.

Discussion:
I thought that this was interesting.  I thought that t was odd that there was a different reaction to the different types of trees.  However, I am curious as to if it was the different type of tree, or the differences in culture between Switzerland and San Jose.