The name of our group project is ‘Gone With the Tea’. It’s about drinking bubble tea in the future, using future interactive technology, which is quite funny since bubble tea is so popular now. The focus about the project is a fictioned hemet, with a built-in AI and sensors, it can communicates directly with your minds without you speaking anything and then executes further command, such as ordering bubble tea. In the drama the process of contacting bubble tea store and ordering bubble tea were all done automatically by the communication between the user’s mind, helmet’s AI and the AI in the tea store. We decide to illustrate this fictioned story in the future since it’s quite related with the theme of this course, interaction, and the interaction we are imagining has realized the possibilty of communicating without certain mediums such as words and actions, but simply by user thinking and interacting with the AI.
Our props in the performance The AI cabinet in the bubble tea store
Our ‘advanced’ helmet
For the performace part, I played the user’s part. In the play I first wrote, I had several lines, however we decided to take them away, and the part of my role are only actions and facial expressions, since we thought this would emphasize the part of which the user’s mind interacting with the AI. The performance was quite successful, we ordered a real bubble tea for performance and I tried my best to act exaggeratedly and absurdly as possible.