Interaction between abstract agents: Increasing the readability of causal events with animation principles
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The document explores how expressive actions, guided by animation principles, can enhance the readability of interactions between abstract agents in causal events. It presents a study involving various agent designs and scenarios to test the effects of these expressive actions on participant understanding. Findings suggest that expressive actions improve readability, while the type of embodiment does not significantly impact this effect.
Interaction between abstract agents: Increasing the readability of causal events with animation principles
- 1. Interaction between abstract agents: Increasing the readability of causal events with animation principles Muhammet Ramoğlu¹, İdil Bostan¹, Mohammad Obaid², Tilbe Göksun³, Oğuzhan Özcan¹ ¹ Koç University – Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries (KUAR), Istanbul, Turkey ² Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden ³ Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 3. Michotte’s causality Michotte, A. E. 1963. The perception of causality. Basic Books, New York.
- 4. Apparent Behavior Heider, F. and Simmel, M. 1944. An experimental study of apparent behavior. The American Journal of Psychology. 57, 2, 243–259.
- 5. Force dynamics PreventHelp George, R. N. 2014. The force of language: How children acquire the semantic categories of force dynamics. Doctoral Thesis. Temple University, Philadelphia.
- 6. PROPOSAL Can we increase the understanding of causal events by re-designing the actions of agents? PROBLEM Experiments were not fully described as causal events by many participants
- 8. Characteristics of agents Emotions and product messages Body movements Speed and Direction Saerbeck, M. and Bartneck, C. 2010. Perception of affect elicited by robot motion. HRI’10. 53–60. Novikova, J. and Watts, L. 2014. A design model of emotional body expressions in non-humanoid robots. HAI ’14. 353–360. Jung, J., Bae, S. H., Lee, J. H. and Kim, M. S. 2013. Make it move: a movement design method of simple standing products based on systematic mapping of torso movements & product messages. CHI ’13. 1279- 1288.
- 9. 12 Animation Principles The Illusion of Life: Disney Animaiton by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas
- 10. Anticipation «Before a character reaches to grab an object, he first raises his arms as he stares at the article, broadcasting the fact that he is going to do something with that particular object» Lasseter, J. 1987. Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 21, 4, 35–44.
- 12. Timing
- 13. Express the behavior of agent Van Breemen, A. J. N. 2004. Bringing robots to life: Applying principles of animation to robots. In Proceedings of Shaping Human-Robot Interaction workshop held at CHI ‘04 Conference. 143-144. Ribeiro, T. and Paiva, A. 2012. The Illusion of Robotic Life Principles and Practices of Animation for Robots. HRI’12. 383-390. Animation principles in HCI Appealing agents
- 14. Anticipation will increase the readability Showing reaction will positively effect the ratings of the agent Takayama, L., Dooley, D. and Ju, W. 2011. Expressing thought: improving robot readability with animation principles. HRI’11. 69-76.
- 15. Emotions Gestures and facial expressions Human-like appearance Causal events Abstract agents
- 16. Novikova, J., Ren, G. and Watts, L. 2015. It’s Not the Way You Look, It’s How You Move: Validating a General Scheme for Robot Affective Behaviour. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015. 239-258. Rimé, B., Boulanger, B., Laubin, P., Richir, M. and Stroobants, K. 1985. The perception of interpersonal emotions originated by patterns of movement. Motivation and emotion. 9, 3, 241-260. Saerbeck, M. and Bartneck, C. 2010. Perception of affect elicited by robot motion. HRI’10. 53–60. Actions > Appearance
- 17. Research questions (H1) Expressive actions, which are created by the use of the animation principles, will increase the readability of the interaction between abstract agents in causal events. (H2) The type of the agents’ embodiment will not change the effect of expressive actions on the readability of interaction between abstract agents.
- 18. Study
- 19. Conditions 1- Expressive actions with objects 2- Non-exprressive actions objects 3- Expressive actions with robots 4- Non-expressive actions with robots
- 22. Agent design
- 23. Scenario One agent was sick/tired/wounded/out of battery Wanted to reach the target area Another agent helped the agent to reach its goal
- 24. Design of body movements
- 25. Between-subject study N = 116 (66 female) Mean age = 26.1 (SD 6.2) Online survey
- 26. • Describe what is happening in this clip • What is the yellow/green agent trying to do? • How confident do you feel about your answer? • Rate yellow/green agent based on following parameters • What influenced you to make these definitions? Questions
- 28. H1 - Expressive actions will increase the readability H2 - The type of embodiment will not change the effect of expressive actions on the readability
- 29. Participants were less sure for their answers
- 30. Trait questions
- 32. We can understand abstract agents with expressive actions
- 33. Abstract robots trend in HRI Sphero, Cubic, Jibo, Roomba, Amazon Echo
- 34. Relation between agents (visible interaction)
- 35. Rescue team of humans, drones, and mobile robots
- 37. Future
- 38. Appearance + Action + Context = Meaning
- 39. Context Force dynamics: Cause, Prevent, Despite
- 41. Medium Digital to physical OMG! SO EXCITED SO MUCH HYPE!
- 43. Q & A Contact: mramoglu15@ku.edu.tr