Quarters Presetation Bowtie - ETC
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The Bowtie team is working with Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute to design an interface for HERB the robot to perform as an actor in plays. The interface will allow operators to control HERB's movements in real time to improvise performances. The team will create animations to transform HERB into different characters. They will work closely with the director to realize their vision. Some challenges are communicating requirements, building a robust interface, creating enough animations, and ensuring HERB can maintain eye contact during interactions on stage. The timeline shows work on the interface, animations, programming, and user testing leading up to the performance on April 30th.
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- 2. TEAM 1 Juan J. Ramirez - Co-Producer Mac Lotze - Co-Producer Jon Lew - UX/UI Designer Robin Lee - Programmer Xiaoyi Zhang - Programmer Jiahao Xia - Artist Rachina Ahuja - Artist
- 3. ADVISORS 2 Mike Christel Shirley Saldamarco
- 4. CLIENT 3 - Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
- 5. THE PROJECT 4 Working in collaboration with CMU’s Personal Robotics Laboratory at The Robotics Institute, Bowtie is helping fulfill HERB (Home Exploring Robotic Butler) the robot’s dream of becoming an actor. On April 30th, HERB will act in a series of short plays by the playwright David Ives. Bowtie will design a flexible and robust interface that enables his operators to manipulate various parameters of HERB’s movement in real time to improvise and fine-tune his performance. The team will create a set of animations that transform HERB into different characters through subtle changes in movement and body language. Bowtie will be working closely with director Sam French to realize his directorial vision by iteratively improving HERB’s interface and animations in the months leading up to the performance.
- 7. PROBLEM 6 Can HERB replace a human actor in a stage play? But before answering that question: What happens in a stage play? Can a human-robot interface can effectively give control over HERB’s expressions ?
- 9. STAGE with HERB 8 Interface Director Operator Directions Feedback Directions Feedback Input Audience Actor Directions HERB
- 10. CHALLENGES 9 Robotics is new ground • Communicating with the lab (blocks) • Learning different environment Building an operational and evolving UI • Codify human language - director’s intention • Nature of the tool being needed for rehearsals
- 11. CHALLENGES 9 # of animations • 3 Plays with 496 lines of dialogue • Not able to hand animate everything Eye line • Eyeline makes or breaks the interaction • Additional challenge compared to HERB’s oreo stint or Quasi
- 12. PRE-PRODUCTION 10 • Understanding the problem (Client interaction: Sam French, Garth, Aaron, Lab) • Research and meetings with faculty (Brenda, John Dessler, Dave Culyba) • Setting up the tech/dev environment • Sketches & UI Mockup
- 13. PLATFORM 11
- 15. ANIMATION [SHOW ANIMATIONS] Tools: Blender - Live Demo 3D Simulator (Ubuntu) 13
- 16. NEXT STEPS 14 • Start working with a set of emotions and with Herb’s Head. • Keep iterating on the user interface and program the first version of it. • Rehearsals • Lab Testing (when possible)
- 17. TIMELINE Title Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Pre-Production (Worskspace Setup, Meetings, Brainstorm) Spring Break Pre-Research (Advisory Meetings, Visits) GDC Design / Art Performance Week -Branding (Logo, Poster Half-Sheets) Final Week -Website -User Interface V1 Mockups -User Interface V2 Mockups -User Interface V3 Mockups -User Interface Final Version Mockups Animation -Test Simulations in Blender (Head) -Test Simulations in Blender (Core Body) -Combined Simulations in Blender: Emotions (Head+Core Body) -Final Simulations and Gestures Recording for Ives' Play. Tech/ Porgramming -Platform Research and Decision -Platform Setup -UI Programming Beta -UI Programming Final Version User Experience -User Interface Sketching -User Interface Architecture -Heuristics Evaluations (V1, V2) -User Testing with Director (Usability Test) -User Testing with Lab (Usabilty Test) -User Testing with Naïve Operator (Usabilty Test) -Final Usability Testing Merge (With Voice Synthesis Provided By R.Lab) Final Polishing and Testing Wrap-Up (Documenting, Lessons, Conclusions, Final Presentation) Halves: 3/24 Softs: 4/21 Quarters Walk: 2/9 Finals: 5/5 Notes Observations Juan,Rachina,Simonand Robinare notgoingto GDC. The performance dayisApril 30th (Wednesday,Week15) Presentations The firstrehearsal wouldbe Feb17th (Monday,Week 6) 15