Group member:
Donna Piet - art design
Yang Chen - interaction design
Yasser Arenas Rebolledo - mechanic design
"Tweak your time" is an experience designed to explore the theme "to tweak", as one of the semester project assignments of Media Tech MSc programme of Leiden University, 2014.
In this experience we invite each time an individual to interact with a M&Ms chocolate machine, which is originally designed by us. This machine allows this individual to customise the colour of their own pack of M&Ms chocolates (get from us)by getting rid of one he/she does't like very much and getting a new one with random colour each round. The individual could spend as long time as he/she wants until he/she gets a desired result.
The projects starts by exploring and researching the definition of the process of tweaking, its purpose and results. While "Tweaking"is defined by us in the pre-research as a process to deliberately manipulate or modify, it is derived from individuals' primary desire to acquire better results. "Tweaking", in this sense, could be an endless procedure that consumes one's time and energy, in pursue of a desired result. Yet the result, found by us by observing the tweaking behaviour of about one hundred visitors, doesn't necessarily become a better one eventually. Instead, many players either changed their minds, yielded to a not- the- most- desired- but-seemingly-ok result, or simply gave up.
It could be seen as a very interesting experiment on how people would balance time and results and make their investment decisions.
"You always want more than what you have, but you don't always get what you want."
