Lu answering the initializing questions

Describe a piece of art or an interactive experience that used electronics as a medium that made an impression on you or that you remember?

Can't remember the name of the art piece, but I saw it on 2010 art basel.

It is a weird twisted shell-shape sculpture that kind of integrates both mechanical and biomorphic features. When you get close to it, it makes weird industrial but soothing sound.

Describe any previous experiences with electronics and sensors.

When I was a undergrad, I did experiments under instructions of a teacher with simple computer chips. When I was in Virtual Environment Research Lab, there's a virtual patient project we were working on. I was working on the speaking interaction and another member was working on the physical interaction. The physical interaction was that the mannequin was installed with an electronic arm so when people talk to the mannequin as a patient, the patient arm will move.

If you are in Digital Media, what do you expect to learn in this major?

Just want to make something new and fun, something more interactive than computer and bringing more "art-like" interaction.

Because the computer interaction is highly highly limited with mouse and keyboard.

the way of interaction although shapes human's mind, it also highly limits human's mind.

Hopefully, through trying some electronics, I can make "more natural" HCI.

I also feel that the electronic can be a chance to bring virtual world and real world together.

And that blurring the boundary or infuse some "soul" into the industrial world, is the critical part I really care about.