Introducing a current-based interactive plant

Abstract

Until now, there have been several approaches to connect and communicate with objects around us. Akousmaflore[1] and Kimapetra[2] are examples of such approaches, in which they provided a channel of communication to objects through specific actions. In this paper, we propose a new method for interacting with both organisms and objects, using the change in electric current when a user conducts a gesture on the target of interaction, ultimately widening the spectrum of the objects reaction based on the users behavior. For our installation, we used a plant as the main target of interaction.