Review

I received some really good feedback from the review. First was the discussion of how the device appears uncanny. There were suggestions that i should be using thermal sensors, instead of light sensors. The thermal sensor makes more sense for human detection. Ken Gregory recommended full use of the Arduino and to create pauses within the device to give the appearances of thought. I am not sure if i will abandon the switches just yet, but the pause i believe are crucial to the uncanny nature. The switches i believe are capable of pauses much more realistically than an Arduino. The randomness of the device has been a bit lost as i have pushed it further along, apparent in the proscenium. My interest lies in the uncanny, and its discussion about interface within architecture. I am currently reading The Architectural Uncanny: exploring the psychological reaction and relationship between occupant and space. Perhaps i can look into the relationship between the subconscious and the space we occupy, exploring in more depth about this duality, Cartesian dualism, and conflict between what Freud refers to as our repressed thoughts and our current situation.

More analysis of the movement, and the space it creates are my focus now: more importantly the relationship between the outside stimulus and the device tracing . The layer of interface between these two is what i want to understand more to develop how the structure can influence us.