Taking inspiration from Spike Jonze’s sci-fi love story Her, Bjorn Johansson has created Him, an interactive website that responds to the chatter of users with its own conversational input, ponderings, wisecracks and wisdom.

Johansson, a digital creative who’s behind a slew of great projects including the cheeky Big-Ass Message, first conceived of the idea when he learned about Google Chrome’s voice recognition capabilities. It took the release of Her for Johansson to fully realise how he wanted to execute his basic idea for a conversational website - still a nascent concept in terms of internet experimentation - and Himthesite.com was born soon after.

The website is restrictive in the requirements it demands of its users - Google Chrome is mandatory, a mic's needed and there's no mobile browsing allowed - but Johansson believes this high threshold for entrance adds to the proof of concept.

Him is ultimately an exercise in self-expression, but it is also an imaginative step forward in the ways we think and interact with online media. Spark up a conversation with Him here.