Audience as Participant

The Online Gait Measurement for the Audience-Participant Digital Entertainment

This paper presents a method to measure online the gait features from the gait silhouette images and reflect the gait features to CG characters for an audience-participation digital entertainment. First, both static and dynamic gait features are extracted from the silhouette images captured by the online gait measurement system with two cameras and a chroma-key background. Then, Standard Gait M...

The Desktop Computer as a Network Participant

A desktop personal computer can be greatly extended in usefulness by attaching it to a local area network and implementing a full set of network protocols, just as one might provide for a mainframe computer. Such protocols are a set of tools that allow the desktop computer not just to access data elsewhere, but to participate in the computing milieu much more intensely. There are two challenges...

Chimpanzees modify recruitment screams as a function of audience composition.

Wild chimpanzees produce acoustically distinct scream vocalizations depending on their social role during agonistic interactions with other group members. Here, we show that victims during such agonistic interactions alter the acoustic structure of their screams depending on the severity of aggression experienced, providing nearby listeners with important cues about the nature of the attack. Ho...

Hypermedia in Education: children as audience or authors?

When teachers reflect on their teaching, their most lasting memories are when students have struggled with knowledge and constructed their own understandings, discovered relationships, and articulated original ideas – original, at least, in the child’s perspective. Teachers want students to build a relationship with information, to analyse and critique others’ ideas and then invent and develop ...

Complexity as a means of conceptualising audience activity