Viewpoints AI

Abstract

The Viewpoints AI installation [2,3] attempts to create an interactive movement-based art experience that has almost no predefined instantial content. As opposed to focusing on designer-created content that reflects their specific view of an interactive experience, we have instead created a movement-based play space where interactors can freely dance with a virtual AI-based character named VAI, teaching it as they interact. VAI analyses interactor movements through procedural representations of the Viewpoints movement theory (from theatre and dance) [1] and improvises responses as an equal collaborator from its past experience with people. VAI uses this procedurally and experientially realized content to present an engaging movement-based experience that any audience member can walk up to and immediately begin dancing with.The Viewpoints AI installation uses shadow theatre as inspiration for creating a liminal space for the projected AI character and an interactor's shadow to co-exist within a real / virtual space. Interactors step in front of a spotlight that projects their shadow onto a large muslin screen. VAI is also projected onto that same space. Viewpoints AI, thus builds on ancient and new media forms, creating an experience that is a playful -but coherent -expression between both the interactor and VAI.

Understanding Kinaesthetic Creativity in Dance

“…This agent can suggest movements for the dancer to consider during improvisation. Another example is Viewpoints AI [27], where a projected artificial agent responds to and adapts to a human interactor.…”

A Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for Entertainment Domains

“…For instance, gospel music uses call-andresponse to nudge democratic audience participation [82], and computational narratives personalize player experiences by iteratively tracking and adapting narrative scheduling to player pacing [6]. Similar research has produced a virtual dance partner that improvises dance moves based on audience actions [54], and a narrative agent that responds to audience gestures with dialogue [84].…”

“…Index of literature review organized by theory, storytelling, theater and music, theme parks, games, and transmedia topics. ,12,13,14,15,18,21,22,25,28,31,32,33,37,41,42,45,46,49,50,52,55,60,61,64,68,74,75,78,81,90,99,101,108,109, 126 Storytelling 5,9,19,20,22,43,44,48,49,54,63,67,70,76,81,84,86,91,…”

Empirically Studying Participatory Sense-Making in Abstract Drawing with a Co-Creative Cognitive Agent

“…Viewpoints AI (VAI) is a co-creative dance partner that improvises with users in real time as they dance in front of a virtual character projected on a large display screen [22]. Using a Kinect, VAI analyzes the dance gestures of users and selects a complimentary dance move for the virtual character to perform.…”