"She's Looking Back", 2018 from Zeppra on Vimeo.


“她回头”（2018）是一个捕捉佩戴者回头动作、并将短信发送给佩戴者前任（或者其他与之有渊源未尽之人）的小数字装置。短信内容 ”She’s looking back” 是一个双关语，字面上表示“她在回头”，亦包含“她回忆往昔”的象征含义。

这个装置是关于“没用的机器”、人佩戴装置时作为一系列后果的触发者小心翼翼的感受、以及语言与身体语言之间的不适配的。

She’s Looking Back is a wearable installation which captures the "turning-around" gesture of the user and texts a message "She's looking back" to her ex-partner. The "looking-back" works as a pun for both a literal body movement and metaphorical rhetoric.

This device is about the absurdity of useless biometrics contribute to a useless machine, the attentiveness raised when a user is aware of the chain reaction caused by her micro-gesture, and the incompatibility of verbal and bodily languages.

实现方法是：当佩戴者转头时，固定在脖子上的皮筋一侧拉伸而一侧舒张，挤压固定在背部的两块木片中的压力传感器，超过阈值时，触发微处理器中的指令，给指定手机号发送短信息。

使用的主要部件是：微处理器是feather FONA，一款adafruit设计的携带蜂窝通信模块的adruino兼容处理器，需要GSM通信的SIM卡；压力传感器-Interlink 402；锂电池-1200mAh。
代码部分主要由adafruit编写的配合FONA的库中自带发送短信息的方法完成。

这个作品与 UCB environment design的赵瀚卿（传动结构设计、木工）、 以及cinema studies的Helen Jiang（部分理论文稿、模特）合作。

How it is realized: when the wearer turns her head back, one side of a rubber band tied on her neck stretches and the other side releases which conduct pressure to a force sensor, triggering a microcontroller to text a specified number.

The device consists of a Feather FONA microcontroller, by Adafruit, which carries cellular communication model; a SIM card; an FSR - Interlink 402; a lithium battery.

I collaborated with Hanqing Zhao, UC Berkeley Environment Design, for structure design and woodwork; and Helen Jiang, UC Berkeley Cinema Studies, for conceptual research.