What are things that can’t be measured ? :
Creativity,
Value,
Moral,
Emotions,
Interperosnal Relationships,
Power
Found that Power, Interpersonal Relationships, and Emotions are connected
How could we measure this?
Vibes?
What changes when we measure something that were never meant to be measured?
Taking up space with one’s voice:
Something that people can only use together?
Wearables?
What sparks our interest? <3
What changes when we measure something that were never meant to be measured? (fictional examples research)
Blade Runner, 1982
Voight-Kampff machine (Blade Runner, 1982): a fictional, polygraph-like interrogation tool that measures skin response and eye movement during questions about empathy. Researchers at Lancaster built a speculative device for online dating based on it, designed to gauge how a first interaction is going.
Heartiley Battery
Heartiley Battery (Tamil web series, 2025): a woman builds a device that measures love. Couples test their relationships, percentages flash on screen, and some people walk away because the number doesn’t match their expectations. This is probably the closest match for interpersonal relationships.
The Mind Game
The Mind Game (novel by Hector Macdonald): the plot centers on a device that measures emotions by detecting neural impulses in the brain.
CASIE (Deus Ex: Human Revolution): the Computer Assisted Social Interaction Enhancer, an implant for social interaction.
PKE-Meter (Ghostbusters)
A device with moving wings that shows paranormal energy. It looks like an instrument, although nobody knows what it measures.
How can we build/prototype something that needs precision and has a complex mechanism?
What do we want to messure?
Next Steps:
- prototyping
- looking at already existing measurements (MAK)
- doesnt have to be a precise measurinng instrument – you can assign a certain unit to a certain element of an object ( as thinking aid, counting device, device for visiualisation )
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