March 28, 2005
Andrine
Virtual Personality is Yours to Manipulate
Andrine, developed by The Pooch at Lancaster University (UK), is a virtual personality projected on a screen and reacting to messages sent via SMS. She uses an array of facially expressions to portray her emotions when reacting to the messages.
Each of the 6000 words of her lexicon is partitioned into one of 30 lexicon classifications - including Dislike, Calm, Violent, Angry, Happy and Sad. Each of these classifications are then mapped to the 8 emotions provided by Andrine: Happy, Sad, Angry, Shocked, Laughing, Suggestive, Disgusted, Annoyed. Participants see a huge projection emotively responding to their message. So effective is this response that they are often afraid to insult or anger the avatar. Moreover, Andrine can be "reskinned" to anyone's face in about 5 minutes using a basic webcam. Quicktime Movie. [blogged by Regine on textually.org]
Posted by jo at March 28, 2005 11:25 AM
