Script:
Scene 1
Stephen: (pretends to be crying)
Kenneth:
* Walks pasts Stephen and sees him crying*
*stops and switches the button to the “logical” side
*changes attitude*
Kenneth: Hey, I see you’re upset, do you want to talk about what happened?
Stephen: Yes, I can’t finish my recitation blogs. They are too long. It was like at least 800 words for each blog. I can’t take it any more.
Kenneth: I finished mine a really long time ago. You should catch up, you’re so slow.
Stephen: you’re so mean, “switches knob for emotional side”
Kenneth: oh, I can relate. It’s all going to be fine, I can help you do it!
Stephen: thanks bro *hugs me*
Scene 2
Flora: *trips Freddie*
Freddie: *falls and cries*
Tawan: *puts the helmet on*
*switches the button to the logical side*
*changes attitude*
“Next time you should calculate the possibility of that happening so this wouldn’t happen to you again.”
Freddie: How am I supposed to know what she’s going to do?
Tawan: “There’s a high probability that your friend would prank you, 70% to be precise. Your mental capability is just not high enough to see that coming”.
Freddie: “You know that most people would be helping me instead of lecturing me about what to do right?”
Tawan: “Emotions are temporary. Logics are permanent. People can change emotions, but they can’t change facts. I am telling you what to do so you can think more rationally instead of crying like a baby”.
Freddie: “I don’t like you”.
Tawan: *switches the button to the emotional side*
“I’m so sorry bro I don’t know what came over me, you good?”
Freddie: “Yea I’m okay bro, thanks for asking”
Tawan: *holds out his hand to Freddie and helps him get up*
Scene 3
Stephen : *puts the helmet on with the emotional mode*
Freddie: Why don’t we go out tonight?
Stephen: Yay, lez goooo! Where are we going? Clubbing?
Freddie: Yeah, but I really don’t feel like clubbing, maybe dinner?
Stephen: *switches his helmet to the logical side*
Stephen: Yes, that sounds better. We have a lot of interaction lab homework to do. It’s a Wednesday night, Freddie.
Freddie: You’re right, we should finish all of our work today. You are so logical!!
STEP 2: Make
Our group decided to go with my invention for the second story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. After a quick brainstorm, we came up with a helmet that will allow you to adjust your logical thinking and your emotional thinking by adjusting a knob. For example, you could allow your brain to think 100% logically or 100% emotionally, or 50% logically and 50% emotionally. We also researched the existing technologies that are similar to our brainstormed invention, and we came across A.I./Machine learning, which allows you to foresee potential outcomes, but it only deals with the logical side and does not account for emotional thinking.
Evidently, there will be problems that occurred because of this invention, and we listed a few:
- People won’t be able to think critically without helmets, as they have always relied on them.
- Lack of emotion may cause society to not be as productive as daily things progress due to the balance between logic and emotion
- The thinking pattern of human beings would be fixed in a certain ratio of logical and emotional thinking. However, regular everyday thinking doesn’t work in such a way where a certain ratio was all set up beforehand. The ratio at most times was random, and it should be random, freed of restricted patterns.
STEP 3: PERFORM
After building the helmet we then work on the script. We decided to include multiple scenarios of people using the helmet to better clarify its function of it without actually saying what it does. We ended up with 3 different scenes where each one utilizes the maximum efficiency of the logic/emotion side on the helmet. We then rehearsed it multiple times until we are all comfortable with the script.
STEP 4: REPORT
In the story of Omelas, everyone doesn’t feel sad because the deprived boy in the basement “experiences” the suffering of every citizen in Omelas. My idea for this story is to create a helmet that can control how severe your emotion can be. After some thinking, I realized that if I decrease/increase emotion, then the reciprocal of that should also increase/decrease. I knew that the reciprocal must be the logical side, so I included that as part of the invention.
In my research blog, I wrote the definition of interaction as the action when 2 or more objects/persons “play” with each other back and forth. Both my invention and Kenneth’s invention involve interaction since our inventions were fairly similar. Both of our inventions are interacted by our hand adjusting a button, which will result in the helmet responding back in a certain way.
rough draft
I would say our artifact is a success since it came out the way we envisioned it and it does the function that we need it to. Apart from my invention idea, my contribution to the group includes, cutting the necessary components for the cardboard build, writing my part of the script, and acting out the script.
There is this one group that invented a security glass where you can see previous footage of crime while it also alerts you when the crime happens. This invention is relevant to the first story where the parents got eaten by the lions. With this invention, security guards and police will be alerted when a crime occurs. I really like how well the script was made since it clearly shows the purpose of the glass. However, I do believe that the glass can be better designed because it slightly looks like normal glasses.