Development of Interactive Entertainment

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Development of Interactive Entertainment

• November 19, 1999
• Scott Stevens
• Human Computer Interaction Institute
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Linear vs Interactive

• Voyeurs vs Participants

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Does Interaction Scale Up?

• How do people interact with people
• One-to-One
• Highly interactive, individuals directly effect
  outcomes
• Small Groups
• Moderately interactive, individuals contribute to
  outcomes
• Large Audience
• non-interactive, individual contribution
  negligible

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To Be Interactive

• How do people,today, interact with
• electronic entertainment.

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Interactive Movies

• To Date, The Marriage of Hollywood
• and
• Silicon Valley
• has led to
• Interrupted Movies

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Interactive Media

• From the Telharmonium
• To
• The dot coms

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• Truly Interactive Movies TIM, will be StarTreks
  Holodeck

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Truly Interactive Entertainment

• Must be Realistic, Believable, Enjoyable,
  Engaging Plus
• Interactions must be meaningful
• Interactions must effect the experience
• Fantasies (stories) must be intrinsic
• Interfaces (worlds) must be intrinsic

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Meaningful Interaction

• Characters and situations must react to the user

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Intrinsic Interface

• Objects must be manipulated directly
• For characters this means the user must be able
  to carry on conversations with them

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CMU Research

• Advanced Learning Technologies Project
• Character Simulation
• Cinematic Understanding
• Virtual Reality
• Digital Video

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Synthetic Interviews

• Its just canned responses