The project aims to build a path for audiences to explore and understand empathy, both how it is designed and misused. The uncanny valley shows that to a certain extent, the more humanoid the form of a machine is, the more empathetic a human is.
In order to test audiences’ emotions towards it, I embedded the concept of the Golem into a radio by shaping it into humanoid form. Showing care and affection to the radio ‘fixes’ its broken state, exploring how we may feel empathetic towards nonhuman objects, and how this empathy has been designed.
Biography:
Xintong Wang (CN) is currently an MA student in Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication. After graduating as an industrial designer, she turned her focus to the relationship between humans & machines, and the psychological understanding of artificial intelligence. Her collaborative work has been shown at the Design Museum Home Future exhibition.
