eric john olson

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Recently I finished working on a version 1 of the communication and brain framework for a robotic bartender Jeff Crouse and David Jimison dreamt up and coined BoozBot. The idea was to create a robot that is reminiscent of the forgotten service robots depicted in movies of our past. The end result was a very interesting interactive bartender that captured interesting insight to how people expect robots to behave and interact in our society. Hope you enjoy!

For more information and photos check out the BoozBot pages on Jeff’s and Digital Situation’s websites.

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I recently finished a contribution to a project called Dirt Party with Eyebeam fellow Jeff Crouse and resident David Jimison. For this installation I created a kiosk application that helps people gather dirt on fellow partygoers. The software lets people surf the internet, take screen shots and create “lolcat” style images with humorous and embarrassing subtitles commenting on people at the party.

Dirt Party, which was installed in Manchester UK for Futuresonic, is an installation/performance where gossip, rumors, photos, and other types of information about people at a particular party is dug up and reshaped into some kind of display or performance. For more information about the installation check out Jeff’s website.

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I started collaborating with an Eyebeam fellow Jeff Crouse and resident David Jimison to create interactive party technology. My first contribution was for a project called Anywhere But Here, which allowed people at a party to pretend to be at a cooler party where they were being photographed. The project was inspired by the fact that photographers, like the ones from Last Night’s Party, have become the new DJ of a party. Therefore playing into this, people selected a party to pretend to be at while photographers took their photos and then they uploaded them to their social networking sites using a software kiosk I created called the photo blaster.



For more information about the project check out the Digital Situations website, it provides more hilarious photos and a more complete description of the project.