office environment

Summary
Walk in an environment of high-tech office and in the typical son of the network that winds its glossy monitors, keyboards and click, and we can see a plant. Unfortunately, this plant is often die, are not suited well to the desktop environment. Here the authors discuss their work, "Office Plant # 1", an exploration of a technical object on the ecology of the Office that the same social and emotional niche as an attachment is adapted. "Office Plant # 1" monitors both the ambient brightness and international e-mail address of the owner. His robotic body, reminiscent of a desert plant in form, responds to slow, rhythmic movements and quiet ambient noise. "Office Plant # 1" is a new expression of our notion of intimate technology, that is, technology, human needs and desires to technologies that meet the functional specifications of contrast only.