Children television productions have been using puppets for a long time. Since the early days of computer animation, computer puppet simulation has been researched intensively. Complex motion capture equipment allows nowadays the real time mapping of movement for virtual puppets (performance animation). However, the costs of capturing equipment are too high and the difference in the workflow ma...

In this paper we present a multi-part formal design and evaluation of the style-by-demonstration (SBD) approach to creating interactive robot behaviors: enabling people to design the style of interactive robot behaviors by providing an exemplar. We first introduce our Puppet Master SBD algorithm that enables the creation of interactive robot behaviors with a focus on style: users provide an exa...

Strong reciprocity is considered here as the propensity to sacrifice resources to be kind or to punish in response to prior acts, a behavior not simply reducible to self-interest and a likely force behind human cooperation and sociality. The aim was to capture emerging signs of strong reciprocity in human ontogeny and across highly contrasted cultures. Three- and 5-year-old middle class America...

We investigated children's moral behaviour in situations in which a third party was harmed (the test case for possession of agent-neutral moral norms). A 3-year-old and two puppets each created a picture or clay sculpture, after which one puppet left the room. In the Harm condition, the remaining (actor) puppet then destroyed the absent (recipient) puppet's picture or sculpture. In a Control co...

AR Puppet is a hierarchical animation framework for Augmented Reality agents, which is a novel research field connecting Augmented Reality (AR), Sentient Computing and Animated Agents to a single coherent human-computer interface paradigm. This framework enables the control of the physical environment and virtual animated agents using the same interface, blurring the boundary between the real a...

objectives this study was designed to compare the effects of dramatic puppet and therapeutic play on anxiety of children undergoing surgery. methods in this randomized clinical trial, 75 children were divided into three groups (dramatic puppet, therapeutic play, and control) using a simple random allocation method. the study was conducted in iran in 2013 - 2014. the revised children’s manifest ...

Of all performance traditions of antiquity, puppetry has attracted the least scholarly attention, yet, from fragmentary evidence which survived, it is possible to make a number observations about real practice puppetry, beyond its metaphorical usage in philosophical texts. Relying on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological material, this paper addresses inter-relation context, physical form,...

In this paper, we studied the mechanism of cooperation between shadow puppet networks and cultural entrepreneurs in raising economy community local awareness. It was found that groups Nakhon Si Thammarat still exist large numbers. At present, has been distributed various established associations one them is Southern Shadow Play Association. Provincial Folk Artist Association Federation Artists ...