{"id":421,"date":"2025-11-07T18:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/?p=421"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:47:40","slug":"chm-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/11\/07\/chm-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"CHM Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\"> The visit to the Computer History Museum was actually surprisingly fun to me. I thought it would be mainly about the previous generations of computer engines and early calculators, but I discovered a bunch of very interesting things, learned  and had a chance to interact with them. The CHM felt very professional, and serious the  I walked in; maybe because there were many people dressed formally and were having business conversations inside. <\/span><br>I took so many pictures at the museum of many interesting things that I saw. There&#8217;s a display of the inside of a supercomputer, there were like a  billion wires inside. I saw many old robots, there was a bigger police robot, it has the flashing light of police cars and the police badge. There were many much smaller ones as well; there&#8217;s one named the &#8220;AIBO&#8221;, it&#8217;s designed by Sony, a robotic pet dog. Apparently it responded to more than 100 voice commands, and I think this design is adorable.  I also interacted with the first AI, it was stupid, no matter what I typed in it only responds &#8220;I can&#8217;t understand that!&#8221; I saw the development of search engine around the world, and the earliest video games. <br>My favourite object was the Ameca; she&#8217;s the robotic AI in the appearance of a female. My friends found her horrifying, I thought it was amazing of how much behaviours she&#8217;s capable of and commands to respond to. We tested that she could speak multiple languages, and she actually has facial expressions. I commanded her to wink and do a disgusted face, and she actually did, which was very surprising for me. It&#8217;s just that she responds very slowly.  <br>Overall, the CHM visit gave me a deeper appreciation for the history of technology and the people behind it. It connected the things I learn in class with real artifacts which could visualize <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visit to the Computer History Museum was actually surprisingly fun to me. I thought it would be mainly about the previous generations of computer engines and early calculators, but I discovered a bunch of very interesting things, learned and had a chance to interact with them. The CHM felt very professional, and serious the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}