Day 3: (Tue Sep 5, Week 2) Behavior as Medium

Notes for 2023-09-05.

New Assignments

New assignment, due before next class: Exercise: Precedent Research. Please submit via the Assignment 2 Submission Form.

Agenda

  1. Review a few assignment submissions from Student Work.

  2. Discussion of expressive behavior.

    1. Short presentation framing the questions.

    2. More related videos (below). See also Videos of Related Work.

    3. Breakout prompt: what kind of machine relationships could be visually expressed?

      1. How would that be expressed purely through movement?

      2. What content questions would you pose?

    4. Discuss assignment for Thursday.

  3. Further discussion of Webots robot modeling.

    1. review of node tree

    2. coordinate systems

    3. proto files

    4. generative motion primitives using numpy

Breakout Ideas

Some of the ideas which emerged in the breakout discussion:

  • robo-soccer

  • Sisyphean basketball

  • revolving soccer

  • mobile repair robot

  • big red button

  • shadow puppets

  • chaotic ball machine