Interact

Ma, Minhua; Coward, Sarah; Walker, Chris

doi:10.1145/2838739.2838803

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“…To this end, LediZ is a cooperation between the LMU Munich, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, and the Forever Project. The Forever Project [19] previously assisted the National Holocaust Centre and Museum with their own takes on digital interactive Holocaust testimonies [20]. We were able to convince the Holocaust survivors Abba Naor and Eva Umlauf to support this project by lending their story and their likeness to each of their respective interactive virtual twins.…”

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Preserving Conversations with Contemporary Holocaust Witnesses

Kolb

Kranzlmüller

2021

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Conversations with Holocaust survivors are an integral part of education at schools and universities as well as part of the German memory culture. The goal of interactive stereoscopic digital Holocaust testimonies is to preserve the efects of meeting and interacting with these contemporary witnesses as faithfully as possible. These virtual humans are non-synthetic. Instead, all their actions, such as answers and movements, are pre-recorded. We conducted a preliminary study to gauge how people perceive this frst Germanspeaking digital interactive Holocaust testimony. The focus of our investigation is the ease-of-use, the accuracy and relevance of the answers given as well as the authenticity and emotiveness of the virtual contemporary witness, as perceived by the participants. We found that digital 3D testimonies can convey emotions and lead to enjoyable experiences, which correlates with the frequency of correctly matched answers.

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Preserving Conversations with Contemporary Holocaust Witnesses

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2021

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Question-Answering Virtual Humans Based on Pre-recorded Testimonies for Holocaust Education

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Walker³

2017

Serious Games and Edutainment Applications

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In this chapter we present Interact-a project which builds questionanswering virtual humans based on pre-recorded video testimonies for Holocaust education. It was created to preserve the powerful and engaging experience of listening to, and interacting with, Holocaust survivors, allowing future generations of audience access to their unique stories. Interact demonstrates how advanced filming techniques, 3D graphics and natural language processing can be integrated and applied to specially recorded testimonies to enable users to ask questions and receive answers from virtualised individuals. This provides a new and rich interactive narrative of remembrance to engage with primary testimony. We briefly reviewed the literature of conversational natural language interfaces, discussed the design and development of Interact, including how we mapped the current proceedings of testimony and question answering session to human computer interaction, how we generated/predicted questions for each survivor using a lifeline chart, the 3D data capture process, generating 3D human, natural language processing, and argue that this new form of mixed reality is promising media to overcome the uncanny valley. Subjective and objective evaluation is also reported. The chapter is a longer version of a short paper presented at the ACM OzCHI conference (Ma, Coward and Walker, 2015).

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Playing Games with Tito

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Ryding

Spence

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J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid museum experiences that aimed to facilitate critical play with/in the collections of the Museum of Yugoslavia and the highly contested heritage they represent. Based on reflections from the design process as well as feedback from test users, we describe a series of challenges: Challenging the norms of visitor behaviour, challenging the role of the artefact, and challenging the curatorial authority. In conclusion, we outline some possible design strategies to address these challenges.

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Interact

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Preserving Conversations with Contemporary Holocaust Witnesses

Preserving Conversations with Contemporary Holocaust Witnesses

Question-Answering Virtual Humans Based on Pre-recorded Testimonies for Holocaust Education

Playing Games with Tito

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