Short message service (SMS) is extremely popular today. Currently it is being mainly used for peer-to-peer communication. BlogWall extends the SMS to a new level of self-expression and public communication by combining art and poetry. The application can simply display SMS, gather data using polls, and create poetry or even Japanese "Haiku" all based on the SMS.

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We tried to develop an interactive system that could help us recreate our conscious selves by calling on Buddhist principles, Asian philosophy, and traditional Japanese culture through the inspirational media of ink painting, kimono and haiku. "Recreating our selves" means the process of making the consciousness of our 'daily self' meet that of our 'hidden self' through rediscovering creative resources deep within us that may have been forgotten but still resonate with vital meaning. In other words, this interactive system is based on the effort to meld our consciousness and unconsciousness in complete harmony. It is difficult to achieve this through traditional logic-based interaction. We succeeded in reaching this goal by setting as our target of scientific computing images from the above traditional Japanese media.

We have developed an interactive storytelling system that aims to help us "recreate" our conscious selves by calling on Buddhist principles, Asian philosophy, and traditional Japanese culture through the inspirational media of ink painting, kimono and haiku. "Recreating ourselves" means the process of making the consciousness of our 'daily self' meet that of our 'hidden self'. through stimulation of activity deep within us. Ultimately, this may meld our consciousness and unconsciousness in complete harmony. It is difficult to achieve this through traditional logic-based interactions. Our system is a new approach to reaching this goal by incorporating traditional media and methods in an interactive computer system.

In face-to-face communications, the occasional need for intentional lies is something with which everyone can identify. For example, when we get mad, circumstances may force us to put on a big smile instead of expressing our anger; when we feel miserable, good manners may dictate that we greet others warmly. In short, to abide by social norms, we may consciously lie. On the other hand, if we consider the signs that our bodies express as communications (body language), we can say that the body does not lie even when the mind does. Considering this phenomenon, we propose a means of "touching the heart" in a somewhat Japanese way by measuring the heartbeat of the "honest" body and using other technologies to develop a new code of non-verbal communications from a hidden dimension in society. We call this "Meditation art" or "Zen art." "Zen" is Buddhist style meditation.

The creation of interactive animated agents is one of the most active research areas for researchers who are trying to develop various kinds of technologies that give such agents human-like behaviors. However, there are other important issues concerning the agents. One is the introduction of narratives into the behaviors of the agents. Since narratives are the basic way movies and novels take us into cyberspace, they can be effective for creating really human-like agents. Based on this idea, we have developed an interactive movie system (R. Nakatsu and N. Tosa, 1997) in which people can act the main roles and enjoy the story development. At the same time, we have learned that the existence of spontaneous interactions is also the key to the success of this new media. Based on this lesson, we have developed a second system (R. Nakatsu et al., 1999), where we tried to achieve a good balance between narrative-based and spontaneous interactions. In the first part of the paper we introduce our interactive movie system by focusing on how we achieved an integration of narrative-based and spontaneous interactions. Also, there is the important question: what is the objective of creating interactive animated agents? Although the technological aspects of such agents have been studied and discussed in detail, this critical question has rarely been discussed. In the latter part of the paper, we discuss what is the ultimate goal of interactions with interactive agents.

In this paper, we first study the recognition of emotions involved in human speech.We propose an emotion recognition algorithm based on a neural network and also propose a method to collect a large speech database that contains emotions.We carried out emotion recognition experiments based on the neural network trained using this database.An emotion recognition rate of approximately 50% was obtained in a speakerindependent mode for eight emotion states.We then tried to apply this emotion recognition algorithm to a computer agent that plays a character role in the interactive movie system we are developing.We propose to use emotion recognition as key technology for an architecture of the computer characters with both narrative-based and spontaneous interaction capabilities.

In this paper, we first study the recognition of emotions involved in human speech. We propose an emotion recognition algorithm based on a neural network and also propose a method to collect a large speech database that contains emotions. We carried out emotion recognition experiments based on the neural network trained using this database. An emotion recognition rate of approximately 50% was obtained in a speaker-independent mode for eight emotion states.

Nonverbal information, such as the emotions, plays an essential role in human communication. Unfortunately, only the verbal aspect of communication has been focused on in communications between humans and computer agents. In the future, however, it is expected that computer agents will have nonverbal as well as verbal communication capabilities. In this paper, we first study the recognition of the emotions involved in human speech. Then we apply this emotion recognition algorithm to a computer agent that plays a character role in the interactive movie system that we are developing.

Article Interactive movie system with multi-person participation and anytime interaction capabilities Share on Authors: Ryohei Nakatsu ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, JapanView Profile , Naoko Tosa ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, JapanView Profile , Takeshi Ochi ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, JapanView Profile Authors Info & Claims MULTIMEDIA '98: Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on MultimediaSeptember 1998 Pages 129–137https://doi.org/10.1145/290747.290764Online:01 September 1998Publication History 3citation389DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads389Last 12 Months12Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

We propose a new type of speech-based ~nteraction system called "Interactive Poem." Gmventiomd speech-based interaction systems have only focused on the transmission of logical meaning involved in speech.The application of such systems has been restricted to business services such as making reservations or data retrieval.In the Interactive Poem system, however, a human and a computer agent create a poetic worId by exchanging poetic phrases, thus realizing Kansei-based communications between computers and humans.This paper first proposes the concept of "Interactive Poem".Mthen describes the details of the system we have developed, including the software and the hardware configurations as well as the interaction mechanism.1.1 Ke-ywords

Real-time spontaneous interaction is the basis of our active behavior such as communication. On the other hand, narratives in movies or novels give us the opportunity to experience dramatic events which are not encountered in our daily lives. The integration of these factors is expected to provide us with a new type of experience. In this paper, by integrating movies and interaction technologies, we propose the concept of "interactive movies". We first explain the concept of interactive movies and describe a prototype system we have developed. We then describe the construction of a second system, which we are currently developing, as well as several improvements in the system.

A new type of media called 'interactive movies' is proposed which will be realized by the integration of conventional medium such as movies, telecommunications, and video games. The interactive movies have the capability of creating a virtual world with various kinds of realistic/hyper-realistic scenes and computer characters. The metaphor of 'Inter Communication Theater' gives people the ability to interact within this virtual world. Therefore people can experience the stories of the virtual world through interactions with the characters and the environments of the world. In this paper, the basic concept of such a new media will be described along with an experimental system we have developed.