Embedding expression: Pervasive computing architecture for art and entertainment

Burke, Jeff; Friedman, Jonathan; Mendelowitz, Eitan; Park, Heemin; Srivastava, Mani

doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2005.07.002

Cited by 17 publications

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“…), affect and expressiveness of robots (Lin et al 2009;Hanson 2009a, 2009b;Perkowski et al 2005), experimental aesthetics (Apostolos et al 1996;Dompierre and Laurendeau 2006;Iida et al 2008;Hanson 2009a, 2009b;Ohya et al 1996;Paricio García and Moreno Aróstegui 2007), or some combination. The majority of productions exploring affect and expressiveness of robots have concentrated on improving the physical expressiveness of humanoid robots (Lin et al 2009;Mavridis and Hanson 2009a;Perkowski et al 2005), on creating the sensing needed for awareness (Lin et al 2009;Perkowski et al 2005), or computational structures (Burke et al 2006;Hanson 2009a, 2009b;Wallis et al 2010). The production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was motivated by the desire to understand affect and expressiveness of non-humanoid robots, using commercially available robots designed for flight stability with limited degrees of freedom.…”

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with flying robots)

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Seven flying robot "fairies" joined human actors in the Texas A&M production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The production was a collaboration between the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Theater Arts. The collaboration was motivated by two assertions. First, that the performing arts have principles for creating believable agents that will transfer to robots. Second, the theater is a natural testbed for evaluating the response of untrained human groups (both actors and the audience) to robots interacting with humans in shared spaces, i.e., were believable agents created? The production used two types of unmanned aerial vehicles, an AirRobot 100-b quadrotor platform about the size of a large pizza pan, and six E-flite Blade MCX palm-sized toy helicopters. The robots were used as alter egos for fairies in the play; the robots did not replace any actors, instead they were paired with them. The insertion of robots into the production was not widely advertised so the audience was the typical theatergoing demographic, not one consisting of people solely interested technology. The use of radio-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles provides insights into what types of autonomy are needed to create appropriate affective interactions with untrained human groups. The observations from the four weeks of practice and eight performances contribute (1) a taxonomy and methods for creating affect exchanges between robots and untrained human groups, (2) the importance of improvisation within robot theater, (3) insights into how untrained human groups form expectations about robots, and (4) awareness of the importance of safety and reliability as a design constraint for public engagement with robot platforms. The taxonomy captures that apparent affect can be created without explicit affective behaviors by the robot, but requires talented actors to convey the situation or express reactions. The audience's response to robot crashes was a function of whether they had the opportunity to observe how the actors reacted to robot crashes on stage, suggesting that pre-existing expectations must be taken into account in the design of autonomy. Furthermore, it appears that the public expect robots to be more reliable (an expectation of consumer product hardening) and safe (an expectation from product liability) than the current capabilities and this may be a major challenge or even legal barrier for introducing robots into shared public spaces. These contributions are expected to inform design strategies for increasing public engagement with robot platforms through affect, and shows the value of arts-based approaches to public encounters with robots both for generating design strategies and for evaluation.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with flying robots)

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“…Such works differ from our approach by not using multimodal sensor inputs in order to provide additional interaction with the users, they follow a much more centralized architecture than ours and also provide less capable services of synchronization and situation awareness. A quite thorough discussion on such matters, regarding the integration of sensor networks in entertainmentoriented applications, is included in [8].…”

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Developing multiplayer pervasive games and networked interactive installations using ad hoc mobile sensor nets

Akribopoulos

Logaras

Vasilakis

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

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We present here Fun in Numbers (FinN, http://finn.cti.gr), a framework for developing pervasive applications and interactive installations for entertainment and educational purposes. Using ad hoc mobile wireless sensor network nodes as the enabling devices, FinN allows for the quick prototyping of applications that utilize input from multiple physical sources (sensors and other means of interfacing), by offering a set of programming templates and services, such as topology discovery, localization and synchronization, that hide the underlying complexity. We present the target application domains of FinN, along with a set of multiplayer games and interactive installations. We describe the overall architecture of our platform and discuss some key implementation issues of the application domains. Finally, we present the experience gained by deploying the applications developed with our platform. © ACM 2009

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“…The problem of interconnection and configuration of devices in the context of pervasive computing has been highlighted in [10] bringing to the adoption of an ad hoc solution in the context of edutainment scenarios [9]. Jammes et al [28] report on preliminary work on the usage of SOA for solving the interoperability problem with special focus on legacy issues.…”

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