Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me
A symbiotic augmentation that extends the user with two additional heads each of which is unique variations of the user's identity. We used a generative adversarial network to synthesize life-like human faces and controlled them through artificial attitude models extracted from social media data of the wearer, bringing to life past and future versions of themselves.
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Awards:
Directors Art Grant, Council for the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords:
Human-Machine Integration, Multiple Mind Systems, Wearable Technology, Human Enhancement, Philosophy of Mind.
Publication:
ACM CHI 2021.
Press:
IT Media Japan.
Role:
Implemented time-series statistical models for predicting past and future attitudes from social media data. Conceptual development and co-first author.
