When reading Björn Keysers blog post, shyness as a feature of creatureness immediately resonated with me.
It made we wonder about how a context of shyness relates to building trust between the artificial creature and the participant/viewer/spectator. How would a creature sense social relations of trust and empathy, and at some point be able to reveal or share the full potential of the system?
I wonder how a setup without any direct relatable human form could convey the feeling of shyness by its behaviour.
As the Heider and Simmel (1944) experiment of geometrical animated forms
This directly sends my thoughts to the sonic creatures by Felix Hess once again. Mimicking frogs behaviour, the sounding robots senses when someone is close by and stops singing their tunes however complex a cacophony of sounds were build up just before the intervention of humans visitors.