Prompting Realities: Reappropriating Tangible Artifacts Through Conversation

Mahan Mehrvarz

doi:10.1145/3742782

Prompting Realities: Reappropriating Tangible Artifacts Through Conversation

Mahan Mehrvarz^*

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Human Technology Relations

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Abstract

The rapid development of generative AI, particularly since the advent of products such as ChatGPT, has underscored the importance of prompting. Large language models have transformed our interactions with computers through text, but their potential to control physical objects remains largely unexplored. This led me to ask: What if we could use conversational AI to interact with physical objects? The Prompting Realities project envisions bridging this gap by connecting conversational AI to tangible, interactive artifacts. [...]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10-11
Number of pages	2
Journal	Interactions (N.Y.)
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3742782
Publication status	Published - 2025

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

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