Come Hither To Me!
Come Hither To Me is an interactive robotic performance piece, which examines the emotive social interaction between an audience and a robot. Our interactive intelligent robot will attempt to communicate and flirt with audience members in the gallery space. The robot will use feedback from sensors, auditory data, and computer vision techniques to learn about the participants and inform the conversation. The female robot will approach the audience, pick her favorites, and starts charming them with seductive comments, funny remarks, backhanded compliments, and personal questions. We are interested in evoking emotions in the participating audience through their interactions with the robot. This piece strives to invert gender roles and stereotypical expectations in flirtatious interactions. The performative artwork explores the dynamics of social interactions, objectification of women, and the gamification of seduction. The robot reduces flirtation to an algorithm, codifying pick-up lines and sext/texting paradigms.
This project is in collaboration with Sahar Sajadieh. * denotes equal contribution.
This project is in collaboration with Sahar Sajadieh. * denotes equal contribution.
Exhibitions:
“Come Hither to Me!” Interactivity, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Glasgow, Scotland. 2019.
“Come Hither to Me!” Invisible Machine, Santa Barbara Center for Art Science and Technology. Santa Barbara, California. 2018.
Publications:
S. Sajadieh* & H. Wolfe*. "Designing Interrogative Robot Theater: A Robot Who Won’t Take No for an Answer." Creating Digitally: Shifting Boundaries: Arts and Technologies— Contemporary Applications and Concepts. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. 183-211.
H. Wolfe* & S. Sajadieh*. “A Robo-Pickup Artist Breaking Gender Norms.” In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 1210–1211. 2022.
Sajadieh, S.* & Wolfe, H.* "Come Hither to Me: Performance of a Seductive Robot." Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2019.
Workshops:
S. Sajadieh* & H. Wolfe* “Come Hither to Me!” the Performance Workshop at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) Conference 2022.
