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Fernando Rivero Sosa
Phone with two white rectangular eyes in its pale wooden base on a round, iridescent acrylic side table, with pink, yellow and green tints and coloured light on the floor.

Mechanical Emotion for Samsung

2021

Samsung

We all communicate with our devices all the time. But they are usually static. People communicate with each other in much more complex ways. Non-verbal communication is part of our everyday lives, and certain gestures can provide a lot of information and feedback. How about giving our devices the ability to look at us when we want them to? To turn up when we get a notification? To answer us with gestures? To allow us to use them remotely without touching them? What if we turn our devices into robots? This exercise involved making an animated base for mobile devices to connect to, along with the accompanying interface. These two elements work together to generate different movements and gestures that allow us to complement the communication experience with our mobile devices. In collaboration with Erwan Bouroullec

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Jasmine Deporta
Phone assistant with two white rectangular eyes standing in its pale wooden base on a granite counter, with a man in a blue shirt and a potted plant behind.
Rendering of a black phone showing two white rectangular eyes, standing in front of a pale grey block on a beige background.
Early prototypes: four small foam, wood and metal figures with simple faces, one smiling and one with a moustache, posed on a concrete floor and casting long shadows on a white wall.
Rendering of a blue-grey phone with two white rectangular eyes, on a blue block between blurred yellow and orange bands.
Rendering of a blue-grey phone with two white rectangular eyes, tilted forward on a blue block with a small rounded hinge, against a white and peach background.