DAWN Cafe
DAWN Cafe in Akasaka, Tokyo, which is staffed by robot avatars remotely controlled by people with severe disabilities, including patients with ALS. The robot avatars will be able to take order, bring food and drinks, and respond to any questions or requests of customers .
If DAWN Cafe’s experiment is successful. In the future, robot avatars can be extended to more scenes such as multi-task operations, where one person can appear in multiple places at the same time to meet different work needs.
Or occasions that are difficult to attend personally, such as graduation ceremony of Japanese students under the pandemic, where students use robots to receive graduation certificates and celebrate the graduation ceremony.
Moreover, the application of robots and artificial intelligence can liberate the labor force and alleviate labor discrimination in society, especially for the disabled or women.
The story of DAWN cafe reminds me of Shanghai’s bear paw cafe. After ordering coffee, the waiter will use a bear paw to deliver coffee from a small hole. Also, the employees in this store are all disabled.
Bear Paw Cafe in shanghai
Hoping to use this method to bring heartwarming service to customers, the design of bear claws stems from the physical limitations and inability to vocalize communication. It use the media of creativity to attract deeper attention and dissemination to the disabled people.
Tracy Ma
On the one hand, she plays with typography a lot in her work. For her, words do not have to be arranged in a readable way. She breaks down words into letters and rearranges them to match with the image and theme.
On the other hand, she never stops learning new things. She was learning front end design at night school after finishing a long day of work, which really needed a great deal of perseverance. Besides, she does not set limit to herself and her work.
She starts off doing printing and graphic design work on paper. Then she pushes herself into the field of animation and web design even coding. Despite the change of media, the insight of her work remains the same and quite recognizable. For instance, she always adds a little humor to her work, like a punchline in a joke waiting for readers to get.