Interview with Pepper
Annabel Kajetski
Two Channel Installation 7.26min
Photographs from the Virtually Real exhibition at Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki 2019
Pepper is the first AI Robot in Finland. Peppers job is to be a caretaker and guide in the Kalasatama Healthcare center in Helsinki. Kajetski interviews Pepper in one screen of the two-channel installation. In the other screen the viewer gets to see a representation of what Pepper sees and how it tries to detect human facial expressions. This screen is a replica of Peppers vision. The program in the screen seeks faces in the room and tries to evaluate the expressions and categorize them into normal, sad or happy.
Technical specifications: OFX FaceTracker program by Kyle McDonald, based on Jason Saragihs FaceTracker library for deformable face tracking, written in C++, using OpenCV2. The code is modified by Tuomo Rainio. Artistic content designed by Annabel Kajetski.
