Platform
IBM WATSON, IFTT, Node.js, Johnny five
Role
Designer, User Experience Researcher
Description
While attending Smart Craft Studio we learned how to integrate traditional Japanese woodworking techniques with smart and human-centered technology. The topic for the Smart Craft Studio 2017 is "Animating Craft" - to create meaningful interactions between human and human-made objects through woodworking, sensory processing, and cognitive artificial intelligence (cognitive A.I.) in the context of art and design.
Solution
Working collaboratively wth a team of creative technologists, architects and designers we developed a conversation interface using IBM Watson. It was designed to allow english speaking visitors to place their orders in a coffee shop and IBM Watson translated their orders into Japanese and communicated the order to the employees. This was to help foster communication between the natives and visitor's thereby improving tourism in the community.