I. Folding Beijing
After reading this fiction, the interactive artifact that I want to invent is called the “company system”. In this story, I find that the main character Lao Dao was facing a serious problem of his adopted daughter’s education under the pressure of power and money. Therefore, I come up with the idea of a “company system”. Considering Lao Dao had a phone, I think that there’re electronic devices in that world, and they’re almost affordable for everyone because even poor people like Lao Dao have mobile phones. And this system can control all the electronic devices at home, providing both academic/skillful knowledge (eg. Maths, dancing, etc.) and life skills, and projecting them onto the screen, which makes it convenient for kids to study. Also, this system can monitor kids’ behaviors at home, uttering the alarm when the kids were doing something dangerous. Though it may give the convenience for parents to take care of their children, it also can lead to the problem of disclosure of personal information.
II. Newton’s Sleep
When I read this novel, I find that Ike suffered from the fear of sleep. However, as we all know, sleeping plays an important role in our body health condition. Therefore, I want to create an artifact that can help people who have pressure from various aspects of their life. The shape of this artwork is a bit like a headband that can monitor the user’s brain waves whether it shows negative emotions or not when the user is sleeping. If it discovers that the user is in a negative situation, it can help the user to enter deep sleep.
III. The Lifecycle of Software Objects
When I read the scientific novel “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, I notice that when Jax first entered the real world with its only “body”, he felt everything new and unfamiliar. Therefore, I want to invent a chip inserted into its “brain”, and then connect it with a receptor on its finger, which could allow him to recognize the things that he wanted to know. When this special chip detected that Jax generated the emotion of interested feelings, it would enable Jax to see a small floating window that displays the basic information of the object that he was interested in only by putting his finger on that object. For this artifact, it may make it convenient for “digients” to adapt themselves to the new world, however, on the other hand, it may cause them to lose the ability to explore the world on their own.