Plant Pet
Whenever I grow my own plants, I always make them die. I don’t know why. Besides, whenever I come back to home, sometimes, without any talking, I want something that could give me a comfort. This is my beginning of this project.
I think people want to have an object to take care of and at the same time they want to be taken care of. Besides, I always think that this is similar to that people make an interaction- listening, thinking, and speaking. By having counterpart and reflecting by others, people can confirm who they are and get some energy to live.
I don’t want to make a living creature. but, through this plant, I want to people could get a consolation and relieve their loneliness and stress.
<Concept>
the Plant-Pet can be grown depended on how many times people take care of it.
Here are sensors that I have to make experiment.
1) Photocell/ Ultrasonic /Approximate sensor
2) Humidity / Thermistor sensor
<Another example of “a carebot”>
1)Gecko - a petrol-bot
2)Omo
This is a relational object by Kelly Doson. She call it “Omo”. This is “carebots” or “Companion robot.”
She said that Omo’s role is empathic and sometimes unexpected rather than normative. Omo breathes and senses the breathing of anyone interacting closely with it, matching—or seeking to lead—patterns of breathing. Omo does not always privilege soothing.
<drawing for the project>
This is the mechanism of umbrella
creeping plants /