Comments on: Empathic Painting

Empathic Painting

Tlogmer — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:27:54 -0800

Don't worry. The painting understands. :)

By: riotgrrl69

riotgrrl69 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:02:15 -0800

That's lovely. Perhaps next a Nintendogs add-on? (bad doggie)

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:38:24 -0800

I don't want to control the painting, i want the painting to control ME!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:27:17 -0800

Tlogmer, What an interesting idea! Cool find. Thank you. It would seem to me to have vast applications in the future: a house that responds to one's moods, furniture that responds etc. Wonderful science fiction coming true.

By: ZippityBuddha

ZippityBuddha — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:10:28 -0800

a house that responds to one's moods I'd be afraid of coming home from work all miserable one night and it'd get stuck in a feedback loop of escalating despair and anxiety and drive me to suicide

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:57:32 -0800

We feel your paint.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:00:01 -0800

ZippityBuddha, lol, what an awful vision. An emotional fun house. I think the way empathy works is that it's supportively responsive, not maliciously. It would be a sort of Knight Rider house but, presumably, not verbose. I guess people have been anthropormorphising objects for so long that now via computers they may be taught to respond to human emotions...a kind of external, artificially produced emotional sound track or mirror?

By: Brainy

Brainy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:32:16 -0800

I love this sort of thing. I mean, it wouldn't take much to have it represent the faces of people at another house, so that you always know if your family is upset or not. You could give your aunt across the country a call when she was feeling down. I read about this globe that sat next to a father and son's bed, the father being off on business for 6 months. It glowed when the person on the other end was in bed. When my gf went back to school one semester we thought about how nice that would be to have.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:24:07 -0800

*anthropomorphising Brainy, neat, a sort of non-verbal mood-o-phone.