Who's in control?: exploring human-agent interaction in the McPie interactive theater project

  • Authors:
  • Wendy E. Mackay;Ernest Holm Svendsen;Bjarne Horn

  • Affiliations:
  • I.N.R.I.A., Le Chesnay, FRANCE;University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DENMARK;University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DENMARK

  • Venue:
  • CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The McPie Interactive Theater project explores an unusual style of interaction between human users and visual software agents. Unlike direct manipulation or intelligent agents, McPie explicitly creates a co-adaptive interaction, in which both the human user and the agent modify their behavior according to a changing set of criteria with respect to the other's behavior. The final implementation was tested at an Interactive Theater exhibition in front of a live audience over three days. Volunteers wearing motion detection equipment, interacted with McPie, an animated 3d character back-projected on a wall-sized screen. The setting offered a rich environment for trying out otherwise-controversial interaction styles and suggests new directions for human-agent interaction.