Project Number
- 20
Title
- Portrait One
Description
- Dialog with a virtual woman from Montréal, Québec.
Contact
- Luc Courchesne
Affiliation
- Université de Montréal
Address
- Ecole de design industriel
- Université de Montreal
- P.O. Box 6128, Station A
- Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7
- Canada
- +1.514.343.7495
- Université de Montreal
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- Visitors engage in a virtual encounter with Marie, a 34-year-old French-speaking woman from Montreal, Quebec.
- Supporting both French and English (through subtitles), a visitor conducts a conversation through a set of approximately 300 options and 120 video segments to produce an interactive video portrait.
- This experiment in hypermedia portraiture could lead to "respectable" information agents, dedicated lecturers, engaging conversational partners for language instruction, tutorials, or therapy.
Sight
- Macintosh, video disc player, monitor, HyperCard
Sound
- Video monitor
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Current implementation is limited by its branching structure. Future work with artificial intelligence (adaptive interaction) would free visitor constraints.
- Hypermedia / Hypertext
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