HER!

There is this one feeling that we all can not escape from. A feeling so deeply rooted within ourselves that it always hits you like a truck when you experience it. This feeling will leave a mark on your heart, entangling itself into your deepest memories. When you are filled with excitement and expectations, this emotion can jump from just the unexpected angle and grab you in your feels. It is of course...

REVEAL THE MOST SPECTACTULAR EMOTION

Disappointment.

HER!, The Creature

The creature itself, HER!, stands for High Expectations Required. The general idea of this creature is that it builds up excitement and expectation in the user. It does so by first distracting the user of its purpose, either by its appearance or name. Its shape will be something like a box or a chest, so that the user might think something is inside of it. Then, it will slowly build up expectations. First, it might start with a small flickering light, that keeps on flickering just a little faster. Then with time, more small lights go on. Eventually, some sounds might also jump in, like a snare drum sounds increasing in intervals that you often hear in electronic music when building up for the drop. Finally, some smoke could appear and the box will slowly open. Only to reveal... that nothing is inside. Its just pure emptiness, completely evoking the emotion of dissapointment.

Disappointment in creatures or robots is quite a narrow field. Usually, disappointment is something that the creators want to avoid rather than evoke. However, I believe that by exploring how disappointment works and when it occurs, we can discover how to avoid it. In this paper, by Weidemann et al., they also tried this approach but then with the emotion frustration. They tried to find what kinds of effect frustration has on the collaboration between robots and humans. This is somewhat what I want to explore, how far can disappointment go with artificial creatures. The experience can then make us ask questions like, what makes me disappointed, how do I deal with it, why did I feel disappointed, how do I generally feel after the disappointment, etc.

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