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HISTORY

• Interactive Animatronics Initiative
• 2000-2002

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HISTORY

• Interbots Initiative
• Spring 2004

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HISTORY

• QuasiBVW
• Fall 2004

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PROJECT OVERVIEW
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CLIENT!
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GOALS TOOLS

• Extensible, Extensible, Extensible
• Nothing hard-coded
• Configuration files for everything
• User defined variables and logic
• Generalized message system
• now with outputs!
• Easy to use
• GPI (Guided Performance Interface)
• One-Touch control for demos

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GOALS TOOLS

• New Authoring
• Define the environment
• Variables, inputs, outputs
• Define the logic

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GOALS TOOLS

• New Brains
• Defined by authoring tool
• States, logic, outputseverything

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GOALS TOOLS

• New Functionality
• Plug-and-Play
• Listen and receive messages
• New Inputs
• Director è Flash
• Login/database system
• Phidgets

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GOALS TOOLS

• Guided Performance Interface
• Wireless Tablet PC
• Monitor Quasi
• Influence Quasi
• Puppeteer

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GOALS TOOLS

• One-Touch start-up
• Simple start-up
• Quick access to demos and other content

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GOALS CONTENT

• Give Quasi Character
• Depth and breadth
• Multi-format interactions
• Story based
• Game based
• Demos and introductions
• In short, give Quasi a soul

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GOALS CONTENT

• Stop thinking, start doing
• Use client topics as a starting point
• Generate as many ideas as possible,
• Write at least one script per topic
• Implement as many scripts as possible

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GOALS FIGURE

• Design Aims
• Portability
• Durability
• And legs

Mike Elizalde
Patrick Tatopoulos
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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED

• Tied Up Loose Ends
• Software bug fixes
• Hardware fixes
• Quasi pivots
• Turns on off by himself
• No more light flickering
• Flexible wire

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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED

• Two Academic Submissions
• SIGGRAPH 2005
• ACE 2005

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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED
Virtual Show Control System (VSCS)
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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED
Project Bling Concepts
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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED

• New Content
• Self Demo
• Blackjack

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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED
New Website
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WHAT WEVE ACCOMPLISHED

• Online Presence
• Friendster, MySpace, Orkut
• LiveJournal
• E-mail
• quasi_at_interbots.org
• AIM
• quasitherobot

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SCHEDULES / DEADLINES
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DEADLINE
April 15th
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A CLIENT! What has changed?

• Worlds Fair for Kids
• Nothing has really changed except the dates
• Their vision is practically the same
• They want to market Quasi to the world!
• They came to us
• Exposure is cooler than money
• Exposure opportunity!

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Challenges

• April 15 is the big challenge
• Content and tools have a fallback
• New figure has to deliver

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WE NEED YOUR HELP

• Feedback
• www.interbots.org
• Online Survey
• Stop by 5416

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