@inproceedings{steiner2017project, author = {Steiner, Helene and Johns, Paul and Roseway, Asta and Quirk, Chris and Gupta, Sidhant and Lester, Jonathan}, title = {Project Florence: A Plant to Human Experience}, booktitle = {2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages}, year = {2017}, month = {May}, abstract = {If plants could talk to us, what would they say? Equally important how might they respond to us if we could converse with them? How might these conversations evolve and expand our ability to better relate with the Natural World? Project Florence is an artistic representation of a Plant-Human Interface Experience that is built on top of a scientific analysis of the plant and its environment. Paired with the ability to receive human input, the plant can return a response, thus promoting a two-way conversational experience. Combining Biology, Natural Language Research, Design, and Engineering? we have created an instantiation of a plant to human interface through the power of language. Project Florence enables people to converse with a plant by translating their text sentiment into a light frequency the plant can recognize and respond to.}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/project-florence-plant-human-experience/}, pages = {1415-1420}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4656-6}, edition = {2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages}, }