IAD Interaction Design

During an interdisciplinary workshop at the Design Department of ZHdK Graphomat jr. was developed for experimenting with the subject of automated and autonomous drawing. Graphomat jr. is a creative tool as well as a platform for learning the basics of programming and developing for robotics. Therefore we wanted Graphomat jr. to be as simple as possible and at the same time flexible to use him a variety of applications.

This is the final project of the "Embodied Interaction Design Basics" course, where students learn the basics of Physical Computing. Every student had to build a component of a "Lauf der Dinge" which was firstly introduced by Fischli/Weiss as an art film (1987). The concept of "Lauf der Dinge" is to build a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects interacting with each other in a very simple way. In the course the students build various closed modules – able to perform one specific task – with the ability to accept input from the previous and sending a signal to the succeeding module.