To raise awareness for the canine cause, I led the creation of an interactive gesture-recognition soft toy dispenser and fabrication of its freestanding unit.
Capitalising on travellers’ downtime, the panel encouraged passers-by to play with a virtual pooch.
Over several weeks, the software was trained by 10 participants with different heights and ages making throwing motions; left, right and down the middle.
The machine would trigger one of three ‘dog fetching’ videos with 90% accuracy.
The panel was stocked twice each day and gained some PR and live coverage on the news during the launch on the first day which included real dogs.
The mechanism pre-loaded the next ball for consistency and the motor was delayed until the right moment for the ball to drop as the virtual dog’s mouth opened.