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[telophase]

The most adorable lost cardboard robots you'll ever see. Art project - make cute little robots that only go in one direction, put a flag on them asking for help to get to their destination, follow them discreetly and see what happens. Turns out ... people help them.

In other news, have a bit of con crud or something. :P Staying home from work. (My coworker was out yesterday with suspected food poisoning - I'm thinking maybe it *isn't* food poisoning, if I've got the same thing.)

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[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting that! It made my day. Such a wonderful little film too!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It made me happy. And now I want to build little robots that ask for help. XD

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, too.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That would totally be an amusing thing to do at ConDFW - build robots like this, with signs that say things like "I want to visit the art show! Please point me in that direction!" and see what happens. :D

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I thought about doing it at the State Fair, but I realized that there are too many tents/tables that the bots could get lost under.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

That is incredibly heart-warming. And they're so cute!

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh... that is just too adorable. *twitters* *blogs* *puts in the library's newspaper column just to cheer peoples' days*

[emtigereyes.livejournal.com]

That is full of win. Reposting like mad. :D

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

It's very cute! :-)

I couldn't help noting how these things get conducted/presented/followed-up differently whether done by artists or sociologists. The artist is coming up with lots of other contexts for humans to help out cute robots in new and different ways. If this were done by a sociologist, the same navigation problem would be done with a fleet of robots--a cute-but-frowny-face robot, a non-cute humanoid robot, a faceless robot, an insectoid robot, an undecorated mechanical, etc. And with lots of different flags--one asking politely for help using little-kid syntax/grammar, one asking politely in grownup-speak, one with street-sign brevity, one that's snarky/rude, etc.

But--the sociologists would end up with something informative yet dry. And this is SOO KYOOT!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

That's so adorable!