Intro

When we interact with robots, they inevitably trigger feelings in us. This can be blamed on our ability to empathise and the innate ability to see faces in inanimate objects. If a machine leads us humans to believe that they have feelings and that they depend on the way we treat them, this empathic effect can be intensified.
The installation “JaJaLi” tests and explores the relationship between human beings and robots. How do people behave towards a defenceless machine that supposedly has feelings? What do these behavioral patterns say about our society?
A website functions as an interface between the users from everywhere and the robot. The reaction to a user’s input will be then streamed live to the currently connected interaction partner as well as to every spectator who is on that website.

Team: Javier Rivera Vollmer, Liza Arand, Jasmin Papadimitriou