Project Number
- 272
Title
- Muu: Artificial Creatures as an Embodied Interface
Description
- Artificial creatures designed to create social bonding with humans.
Contact
- Michio Okada
Affiliation
- ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories
Address
- 2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho Soraku-gun
- Kyoto 619-0288 Japan
- okada@mic.atr.co.jp
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Muu, an artificial creature with a humorous physical body, was developed to create social bonding with humans" as opposed to merely exchanging information.
- "The creature also works as an embodied interface that mediates the social bonding that people establish in everyday conversations. The mechanism that coordinates the machine-human relationship is implemented using the self-referencing learning classifier system."
Sight
- Muu, artifical creature
Sound
- embedded audio
Touch
- Muu, artificial creature
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Secondary
- 311 - communication
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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