Summary
インタラクティブ漫才
Interactive Poem is an interactive system in which AI recognizes emotions and voices from the intonation of human voices, and AI poets based on the recognition results carry out interaction by creating poem with users. Creation of poem is realized based on the expansion of Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poem “You.” The system won the L’Oréal Grand Prize which honors researchers who have contributed to the arts and sciences and whose jury was chaired by Nobel Prize winner in physics, Ilya Prigogine. Picture 8 shows one scence of interaction between a viewer and the system. Reference shows a paper describing this system publised in the proceedings of international conference called ACM Multimedia ’98.
Computers that Provoke Laughter
Objective
In our daily lives, a vast amount of unconscious information is generated and exchanged as tacit knowledge. This project was created to consciously discover and digitize such unconscious data, transforming our everyday lives into a space for more emergent communication.
Concept: Interactive Manzai
With the cooperation of Yoshimoto Kogyo, we focused on the “nori” (rhythm and flow) of Manzai—a traditional form of Japanese stand-up comedy—as a prime example of unconscious interaction in human conversation.
As part of our research into emergent communication based on narrative structures that appeal to the unconscious, we have developed a computer system capable of performing “tsukkomi” (playing the “straight man” or calling out absurdities) toward human participants.
Interactive Manzai
A collaborative work with Yoshimoto Kogyo
In our daily lives, a vast amount of unconscious information is generated and exchanged between people as tacit knowledge. This project was created to consciously discover and digitize this unconscious information in order to make our daily lives a platform for more emergent communication.
Concept
In Interactive Manzai, with the cooperation of Yoshimoto Kogyo, we focused on the “nori” (rhythm and flow) of manzai as an interaction of unconscious information in human conversation. As research into emergent communication based on narrative structures that appeal to the unconscious, we have realized a computer that can perform “tsukkomi” (interjecting as a straight man) toward humans.