name

Haemi Yoon (ha3m1)

country

united states

university

Art Center College of Design

department

Media Design

university address

1700 Lida St.
91103 Pasadena

university country

united states

url

http://www.artcenter.edu/

id

0010878

title

Restless Freetime: The Second Nature of Objects

professor(s)

Ben Hooker

rank

-

tags

multimedia interface design interaction design exhibition design

year of making

2010

project url

http://people.artcenter.edu/~hyoon7/restlessfreetime/

uploaded

2010-05-22 12:45:52

RESTLESS FREETIME is a playful investigation into the use of down-time in objects. Conventional interaction design focuses on the high-level and productive interaction between man and machine. This project opens up idle time of electronic objects as an opportunity for meaningful experiences. The methodology is inspired by current trends in "emotional design," "techno-biology" and "anthropomorphism" which result in seeing electronic objects as pets and friends. Instead of presenting entirely new product concepts, RESTLESS FREETIME strives to expose and shift the owner-servant relationship we have with our objects. As a result, the objects in this project, during their "free time," exhibit different behaviors that are not productive but rather full of character. The biggest potential to this concept is that in the future, people are able to appreciate all objects in the world just the way they are... including those that are electronic and man-made.