37 research outputs found
Interactive Narrative in Virtual Reality
Interactive fiction is a literary genre that is rapidly gaining popularity.
In this genre, readers are able to explicitly take actions in order to guide
the course of the story. With the recent popularity of narrative focused games,
we propose to design and develop an interactive narrative tool for content
creators. In this extended abstract, we show how we leverage this interactive
medium to present a tool for interactive storytelling in virtual reality. Using
a simple markup language, content creators and researchers are now able to
create interactive narratives in a virtual reality environment. We further
discuss the potential future directions for a virtual reality storytelling
engine
Di\v{s}imo: Anchoring Our Breath
We present a system that raises awareness about users' inner state.
Di\v{s}imo is a multimodal ambient display that provides feedback about one's
stress level, which is assessed through heart rate monitoring. Upon detecting a
low heart rate variability for a prolonged period of time, Di\v{s}imo plays an
audio track, setting the pace of a regular and deep breathing. Users can then
choose to take a moment to focus on their breath. By doing so, they will
activate the Di\v{s}imo devices belonging to their close ones, who can then
join for a shared relaxation session
Chasing Lions: Co-Designing Human-Drone Interaction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Drones are an exciting technology that is quickly being adopted in the global
consumer market. Africa has become a center of deployment with the first drone
airport established in Rwanda and drones currently being used for applications
such as medical deliveries, agriculture, and wildlife monitoring. Despite this
increasing presence of drones, there is a lack of research on stakeholders'
perspectives from this region. We ran a human-drone interaction user study
(N=15) with experts from several sub-Saharan countries using a co-design
methodology. Participants described novel applications and identified important
design aspects for the integration of drones in this context. Our results
highlight the potential of drones to address real world problems, the need for
them to be culturally situated, and the importance of considering the social
aspects of their interaction with humans. This research highlights the need for
diverse perspectives in the human-drone interaction design process.Comment: To be published in the ACM conference on Designing Interactive
Systems (DIS '20
Getting to know Pepper : Effects of people’s awareness of a robot’s capabilities on their trust in the robot
© 2018 Association for Computing MachineryThis work investigates how human awareness about a social robot’s capabilities is related to trusting this robot to handle different tasks. We present a user study that relates knowledge on different quality levels to participant’s ratings of trust. Secondary school pupils were asked to rate their trust in the robot after three types of exposures: a video demonstration, a live interaction, and a programming task. The study revealed that the pupils’ trust is positively affected across different domains after each session, indicating that human users trust a robot more the more awareness about the robot they have
The data hungry home
It's said that the pleasure is in the giving, not the receiving. This belief is validated by how humans interact with their family, friends and society as well as their gardens, homes, and pets. Yet for ubiquitous devices, this dynamic is reversed with devices as the donors and owners as the recipients. This paper explores an alternative paradigm where these devices are elevated, becoming members of Data Hungry Homes, allowing us to build relationships with them using the principles that we apply to family, pets or houseplants. These devices are developed to fit into a new concept of the home, can symbiotically interact with us and possess needs and traits that yield unexpected positive or negative outcomes from interacting with them. Such relationships could enrich our lives through our endeavours to “feed” our Data Hungry Homes, possibly leading us to explore new avenues and interactions outside and inside the home