Notice
Someone moves something in the shared environment.
Why human
A real person is not optimized around you. They notice different things, move at a different time, misunderstand, adapt, laugh, hesitate, and surprise you. That independent presence is not noise in the experience. It is part of the value.
Full resolution
Physical presence carries tone, timing, posture, breathing, facial expression, distance, orientation, touch, and immediate feedback. People can watch their effect on one another while they are producing it.
MOVE creates conditions where people do not merely describe an experience to each other. They generate the experience together.
From scenery to somebody
Someone moves something in the shared environment.
You realize that their action has changed what is available to you.
You do something with the new situation without being assigned the correct response.
They now encounter a world that includes what you just did.
The third thing
Direct interaction can carry pressure: me looking at you, trying to think of what to say. A shared object, changing environment, or ridiculous problem gives attention somewhere else to land.
The Cube can become the third thing between people: ME → SOMETHING ← YOU. Once interaction begins, the object may matter less. The people have a legitimate reason to respond to one another.
Not anti-technology
Technology can extend reach, support accessibility, and make remarkable things possible. The concern is not the existence of a screen. It is what becomes less available when any focal object occupies the whole field.
MOVE gives the surrounding world another chance to become behaviorally relevant: footsteps, a moving cord, a changing path, somebody laughing, something unexpected beside you.
Build a world worth looking up for.
The machine is not necessarily the most interesting thing in the room. The people are.