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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.

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Behavioural Interface

2024-08-09

A behavioural interface does not announce every available action through a button or icon. Some functions remain latent until an unintended movement reveals them. This is particularly interesting on a phone, which registers much more than deliberate touches.

In Ω, a participant begins with an ordinary personality test. An incidental movement of the hand activates an accelerometer-based response. The resulting disturbance starts to dismantle the vectorised space. A movement outside the explicit questionnaire becomes a bodily resistance to its terms.

For a proposed AI work at KAIST Museum, I considered reversing that sequence. Phone motion would initially rotate the surrounding scene. An accidental spoken word would then trigger speech and language-model processes, revealing propagation and back-propagation across the screens. The everyday action would unexpectedly expose a different layer of the work.

Not every participant will discover such an interface, and discovery need not happen at the same point. Its force comes from an action acquiring consequences that were not announced in advance.

The estrangement matters as much as surprise. A hidden interaction can make someone step back from the situation and reconsider how they have been participating. It changes their relation to the system, rather than merely rewarding them with another feature.

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