Babbage Cabbage - Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore, Adrian David Cheok : Empathetic living media is the revolutionary system that enables the use of living creatures as controllable ambient display. Information based on human and natural information is quantified digitally and communicated in the form of ambient display by computer controlling the color of red cabbage, thus creating a novel media that is alive. This display shows significant organic and human aspects of an individual life, ecology, or society and enriches the semantics between mapping of the living organisms to such considerations. The control of this display is achieved with a control system which monitors the pH level to change the color of the red cabbage. This research was not aimed at only producing a working prototype, but also through the design and experimentation results to construct wide issues of design patterns and frameworks for new types of empathetic living media.
