The next generation poetic experience

Abstract

This paper presents the motivation, background and implementation of The Muses of Poetry, an interactive installation that combines dynamically generated character animation, semantic analysis, natural voice interaction and affect in poetry. Inspired by the subjectivity and ethereal quality of this literary art, we wanted to enhance the act of reciting poetry by providing a set of characters the possibility to "understand" and manifest the emotional content of the poems through facial expressions and affective speech. We believe that this original installation will bring poetry closer to a wider audience, while creating a playful, interactive and surprising experience for the user.

The muses of poetry

“…A detailed insight of how the module used the Whissell's Dictionary of Affect in Language (WDAL) [6] is given in [2]. However, in the current approach we considered the use of the SATI API [5], which solves issues like negation and disambiguation in the sentences.…”

“…The representation of poetry is an area that has generated a number or interesting and creative works, some of which are outlined in [2]. However, few ones have dealt with the recitation of poetry, specifically using animated characters.…”

“…Moreover, by achieving a poetry interpreter, we can have characters that come up with their own interpretation of the poems, while being able to audio-visually translate the emotional meaning in them. In the following we present an overview of The Muses of Poetry, which implementation details can be found in [2,3,4].…”

Exploring Audience Reading Behaviour through Interactive Public Displays

“…& David, S., 2010) to inform people about specific subjects and products, to advertise products on display screens . In museums and galleries, text is displayed to inform spectators about an exhibition through effective interpretive labels (Bitgood, S. 2000), or as a media artwork to deliver a novel reading experience (Arellano, D. & Helzle, V., 2013).…”