Project Number
- 226
Title
- Swamped! Using Plush Toys to Direct Autonomous Animated Characters
Description
- Multi-user interactive environment with tangible gesture interface.
Contact
- Bruce M. Blumberg
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- Synthetic Characters Group
- E15-311, 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- Synthetic Characters Group
- bruce@media.mit.edu
WWW
- http://www.media.mit.edu/characters/
Year
- 1998
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Swamped! is a multi-user interactive environment in which instrumented plush toys are used as an iconic and tangible interface to influence autonomous animated characters."
- "Each character has a distinct personality and decides in real time what it should do based on its perception of its environment, its motivational and emotional states, and input from its 'conscience,' the guest [visitor]."
- "By combining research in autonomous character design, automatic camera control, tangible interfaces and action interpretation, Swamped! seeks to create a rich, evocative and novel experience."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display
Sound
Touch
- instrumented plush toy, automatic camera control
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
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