The Educational Puppet Theatre of Virtual Worlds
The objective of the PUPPET project in the field of early learning is to develop and investigate the value of
a new virtual reality environment, the Virtual Puppet Theatre, (VPT), based on a theoretical framework of "learning
through externalisation". Hence PUPPET aims at extending the current forms of early learning through play
by developing a range of novel individual as well as collaborative interactive environments - using a theatre metaphor.
Contents
Puppeteers
- LIA, Laboratory of Image Analysis, Aalborg
University (Co-ordinator)
more information about Puppet can be found here - COGS, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University
of Sussex
more information about Puppet can be found here - IDAU, Department of Dramaturgy, University
of Aarhus
- DFKI, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH
additional information can be found here (access restricted to puppeteers)
Publications
- Martin Klesen, Janek Szatkowski, and Niels Lehmann
A Dramatised Actant Model for Interactive Improvisational Plays (abstract)
In: A. de Antonio, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 181-194, Madrid, 10-11 September 2001, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 2190, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg. - Martin Klesen, Janek Szatkowski, and Niels Lehmann
The Black Sheep - Interactive Improvisation in a 3D Virtual World (pdf, 20 KB, 4 pages)
In:Proceedings of the i3 Annual Conference 2000, Jönköping, Schweden, 13 - 15 September 2000. - Elisabeth André, Martin Klesen, Patrick Gebhard, Steve Allen, and Thomas Rist
Exploiting Models of Personality and Emotions to Control the Behavior of Animated Interface Agents (pdf, 746 KB, 5 pages)
In: Jeff Rickel (eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on "Achieving Human-Like Behavior in Interactive Animated Agents" in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 3-7, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, June 2000. - Elisabeth André, Martin Klesen
Puppet - Ein virtuelles Puppentheater (pdf, 63 KB, 3 pages)
In: KI - Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz, Heft 2/00, Seiten 32-33, ISSN 0933-1875, arenDTaP Verlag, Bremen, 2000. - Elisabeth André, Martin Klesen, Patrick Gebhard, Steve Allen, and Thomas Rist
Integrating Models of Personality and Emotions into Lifelike Characters (pdf, 2057 KB, 15 pages)
In: A. Paiva and C. Martinho (eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on Affect in Interactions - Towards a new Generation of Interfaces in conjunction with the 3rd i3 Annual Conference, pp. 136-149, Siena, Italy, October 1999. - Malcolm McIlhagga and Patricia A. George
Comunicating Meaningful Emotional Information in a Virtual World (pdf, 20 KB, 5 pages)
In: A. Paiva and C. Martinho (eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on Affect in Interactions - Towards a new Generation of Interfaces in conjunction with the 3rd i3 Annual Conference, Oct. 1999, Siena, Italy, pp. 150-155
Related Research
In this section you may find other projects and research activities related to our work in Puppet.
- The KidStory Project (Esprit project 29310)
- The NIMIS Project (another i3 ese project)
- The InteractiveStory.net project by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern
- The Virtual Theater Project at Stanford
- The Oz Project at Carnegie Mellon University
- The Gesture and Narrative Language group at the MIT Media Lab
- The Improv Project at the New York University Media Research Lab
- Characters, improvisation, and ... - An unorganized collection
of references to autonomous characters
that can improvise and react to their environment.
Software
The software for the first prototype is written in Java and C++ and runs on a SGI O2 using Performer. The main graphical interface for the children and the behavior control for the virtual puppets is written in Java using the Java 2 SDK. The 3D simulation and visualisation of the virtual farmyard is written in C++.
- DFKI Software Archive (access restricted to puppeteers)
The software archive contains the source code for the High-Level Behaviour Module for VPT-A ( the "mind" of the virtual puppets) that processes the synthetic percepts from the 3D virtual environment and uses a plan-based approach to determine the puppet's behaviour.
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Sponsor |
Puppet is funded by the EU under the project no. EP 29335 within the Esprit Long-Term Research pro-active initiative i3. |
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Partners |
LIA, Aalborg University, Laboratory of Image Analysis (Co-ordinator), DK COGS, University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computer Science, UK DFKI GmbH, D IDAU, University of Aarhus, Dept. of Information and Media Science , DK |
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Duration |
November 1998 until October 2001 |
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbrücken http://www.dfki.de |
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