Physical Poets: personalities creating poems

Physical Poets is a poetry generating system where physical pieces, are used as input devices. These pieces impersonate the Poets, and the Poets can be any kind of people. Depending on which Poets are chosen, and how they affect, and are affected by, each other, they create various poems together. Each poet has its own behavior including words and sentence structures, preferred themes and reactions towards other poets. The purpose of the project was to explore how to create versatile, context-aware and context-reactive personalities, as well as to explore the special problems and possibilities that occur in such a co-dependent system. Also, it has been an exercise in combining physical appearance with a software behavior. The outcome was gems like: decked out like an hourglass cloud nine while nine he’s the real McCoy tied to the sky thunder thunder blind you search for the truth two thousand Hamburg four same old sad survival dance drinking with your ghos