Project Number
- 284
Title
- Alpha Wolf
Description
- Interactive virtual environment with a pack of autonomous wolves.
Contact
- Bill Tomlinson
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- Synthetic Characters Group
- 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- +1.617.253.5109
- +1.617.253.6215 fax
- Synthetic Characters Group
- badger@media.mit.edu
WWW
- http://badger.www.media.mit.edu/people/badger/alphaWolf.html
Year
- 2001
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "This installation, featuring compelling characters with a novel multi-person interface in an expressive graphical setting, allows participants to interact socially with a pack of autonomous wolves."
- "AlphaWolf presents a synthetic wolf pack comprised of autonomous and semi-autonomous wolves who interact with each other much as real wolves do, forming dynamic social relationships based on their past experiences. How the wolves interact is determined by their internal state, their social positions in the pack, and their previous experiences with their pack mates."
- Participant input (in the form of howling, growling, or whimpering into a microphone) affects the emotion state of their wolves and gives them a compelling opportunity to explore the meaning of social behavior from "inside the mind and body" of a wolf.
Sight
- graphics workstation, displays
Sound
- dynamic sound score and design, amplified sound, microphones
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- This work is an extension of previous work by the MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Characters Group on creating autonomous virtual creatures.
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