Nature as Interface: MacGyver'ing and Martha-Stewart'ing Interactivity with Trees, Pencils, Grandpa, Even the Kitchen Sink

摘要

What do you get when you cross MacGyver with Martha Stewart? Inventions made of magic markers, chewed bubble gum, flowers, friends, and rainwater! More importantly, you get a person who knows how to work with her environment. In this paper I'll introduce an experimental framing for a new class of interfaces which consist of Nature itself. I'll call people interconnectors instead of "users/producers," and I'll call the things they make interducts instead of "products." Then, I'll talk concretely about Drawdio and Twinkle: two working prototypes (which I created) that let interconnectors create musical inventions by improvising with Nature. Finally, I'll propose some future work and describe the performance I will give (live at Creativity and Cognition) which demonstrates all these ideas.