Kelly Dobson
Artist and technologist
Tags: psychology, technology
Posted: 11/21/08
Recorded at Gel 2008
5 comments

After communicating with Blendie, her custom-built voice-activated blender, Kelly starts with a great first line - "I work with machines" - and goes on to describes her unique vision for human-machine interaction. Kelly's genius is building machines to respond to natural cues, like the frazzled screams in ScreamBody (this footage is also in her Gel talk) or normal breathing, as with the empathic Omo device. User interfaces this elegant are incredibly rare; it's worth considering how these patterns - natural cues, radical empathy - could be applied to other experiences.

Kelly's website shows more of her work.

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georgepechtol.com

Dec 27, 2008 — 07:20 PM

kelly dobson — kelly dobson...

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natsthename

Dec 5, 2008 — 03:43 PM

Fantastic ...and you mention The Big Dig!!

menzach

Dec 5, 2008 — 08:12 PM

her website link above is wrong... it needs a ~... here is the link... good stuff!!! http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/

Lorianne

Dec 5, 2008 — 11:13 PM

I saw this somewhere a couple of years ago. I wish I could remember where. I do believe it was Kelly Dobson speaking (a rather recognizable voice) about the interaction between man and machine.
Thank You!

Mark Hurst

Dec 5, 2008 — 11:16 PM

Thanks, fixed now :)

Aariq

Dec 6, 2008 — 12:01 AM

This is great. I did not realize there were artist at MIT, but I am extremely happy that they exist. I really love her ideas.

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