Voodoo Word

1
Voodoo Word

• An interactive artwork by
• Mike Larsson

2
Voodoo Word

• Hardware
• Interactive model
• Linguistic element

3
Hardware
4
FlecTron Conductive Fabric

• Ripstop nylon subjected to electroless copper
  plating process
• Flexible, tear resistant, cut and sewn like
  ordinary fabric
• Surface resistivity 0.1 ohms/inch²
  (i.e. conductive!)
• Other fabrics paper-like, pin holes didnt close
• Less EMF Inc. (www.lessemf.com)

5
Microprocessor

• BASIC Stamp from Parallax
• Board of Education kit

6
Hardware
7
Interactive model
8
The linguistic element

• Simplest option randomly select a canned phrase
  from a database
• Slightly more linguistically informed option
  select from a database of templates that can grow
  (to some degree) dynamically
• Future work (?) corpus-based approaches,
  semantically informed template system

9
The linguistic element

• I hope your noun gets verbed by a noun.
• I hope your adjective noun gets adverb verbed by
  an adjective noun.
• I hope your adverb adjective noun gets adverb
  adverb verbed by an adjective, adjective noun.
• Etc.
• Infinite intensifiers
• really, really, really, really
• end of sentence!!!!!!