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Context

Give examples of prior work, ideas and projects that influenced your design. What work informed this idea i.e. make links to the material in class and the cases/projects you uncovered in this module. Describe theory, concepts, and research from this module that relate to your outcome. 

Draw from your case studies and think pieces for this section

This project takes inspiration from precedent work like Ghosts in the Smart Home and Superflux’s Our Friends Electric, which share the theme of telling stories from the perspective of the device, and giving the device capability to express emotions. The project also draws reference from the concept of anthropomorphism[1], the application of human characteristics to nonhuman entities. This attribution of human behavior to gods, animals, or objects is quite common in popular folklore. To extend this concept further, our project aims to include the angle of the interplay between personality types. Similar to Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [2], a novel that investigates how different personalities reflect the interplay of good and evil, the spookiness of The Cloud reflects the complexity of attributing human intelligence to devices.


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