Robot improv: using drama to create believable agents

Bruce, A.; Knight, James C.; Listopad, Sergey; Magerko, Brian; Nourbakhsh, Illah

doi:10.1109/robot.2000.845355

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“…However, the 2005 AICHI Expo demonstrated several robots designed to entertain, including the use of robots as actors and dance partners [18]; similar work on the relationship between acting, drama, and artificial agents is presented in recent work using robots as improvisational performers. However, here again, the role of the human is as an observer, and the interaction is minimal and more implicit [81].…”

Section: Related Work On Robots In Cinemamentioning

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Digital Emotion : How Audiences React to Robots on Screen

Schofield¹

2018

CAIJ

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Section: Related Work On Robots In Cinemamentioning

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Digital Emotion : How Audiences React to Robots on Screen

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2018

CAIJ

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“…o Character's personality traits: Personality has an influence in the way a character displays its emotions (Bruce, Knight, Listopad, Magerko, & Nourbakhsh, 2000).…”

Section:  Sound and Light Patternsmentioning

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“…o Ability to complete goals: Character's mood can change based on how well the character thinks it is doing at achieving its goal (i.e., scene objective, super-objective) (Bruce et al, 2000).…”

Section:  Sound and Light Patternsmentioning

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Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Sánchez

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Guerrero

2017

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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Educational robotics has great potential as a learning tool at all levels, from kindergarten to the university. It provides rich opportunities for collaborative knowledge building and skills acquisition through the manipulation of and interaction with robots. Despite the remarkable progress in this field, the scope and impact of robot-based activities have primarily focused on the teaching of technical school subjects (i.e., computer science, mathematics, and physics). This work proposes to support the learning and teaching of non-technical school subjects through drama-based activities with multiple robots. This approach provides a multisensory learning environment where students can learn through representations or simulations of ideas, events, stories, phenomena, or processes using multiple robot actors. Based on the drama process used by teachers, we propose steps to create and perform plays with robot actors in an educational context and discuss different alternatives for its implementation. Finally, we discuss the challenges of creating plays with multiple robots for educational purposes.

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“…Robot theater is another active research platform e.g., [24][25][26]. These projects aimed to facilitate artistic performance and used this performance as a useful stepping stone for robotics research and further, as a platform for social futurology research.…”

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“…In the theater play with a robot (robovie, a humanoid robot), Hirata, a professional stage director, provided precise instructions to the robovie so that its movements and gestures became more human-like and natural [27]. In the second approach, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have investigated autonomy further and used comedy improvisation to create believable agents [25]. They tried to make robots that could improvise scripts on the fly instead of using a predetermined scenario.…”

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Robotic Arts: Current Practices, Potentials, and Implications

Jeon

2017

MTI

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Abstract:Given that the origin of the "robot" comes from efforts to create a worker to help people, there has been relatively little research on making a robot for non-work purposes. However, some researchers have explored robotic arts since Leonardo da Vinci. Many questions can be posed regarding the potentials of robotic arts: (1) Is there anything we can call machine-creativity? (2) Can robots improvise artworks on the fly? and (3) Can art robots pass the Turing test? To ponder these questions and see the current status quo of robotic arts, the present paper surveys the contributions of robotics in diverse forms of arts, including drawing, theater, music, and dance. The present paper describes selective projects in each genre, core procedure, possibilities and limitations within the aesthetic computing framework. Then, the paper discusses implications of these robotic arts in terms of both robot research and art research, followed by conclusions including answers to the questions posed at the outset.

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Robot improv: using drama to create believable agents

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Cited by 44 publications

References 6 publications

Digital Emotion : How Audiences React to Robots on Screen

Digital Emotion : How Audiences React to Robots on Screen

Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Robotic Arts: Current Practices, Potentials, and Implications

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