Storytelling for Recreating Our Selves: ZENetic Computer

We present a interactive storytelling system that aims to help us ”recreate” our conscious selves by calling on traditional Japanese concepts and media. ”Recreating our selves” means the process of reconciling our conscious ‘daily self’ and our ‘hidden self’. This requires deep stimulations which are difficult to achieve through conventional logic based interactions. Users create, enter and dynamically interact with a virtual world expressed as a 3D ”Sansui” ink painting, encountering fragments of stories and ambiguous provocations. The user physically interacts with the system through various media including a Sumie (ink painting), a rake in a Zen rock garden, touching screen images, drawing or clapping hands. The interaction system includes a dynamical chaos engine which is used to couple activity of the user to the generation of high dimensional context and evolution of the storytelling.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology /JST/ATR, N52-390, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, USA

   Naoko Tosa

2. Japan Science Technology Corporation ”Interaction & Intelligence”, 2-2-2, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan

   Naoko Tosa & Koji Miyazaki

3. ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2-2, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan

   Naoko Tosa & Hideki Murasato

4. Editorial Engineering Laboratory, 7-6-14 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0052, Japan

   Seigo Matsuoka

Editors and Affiliations

1. Virtual Reality and Simulation Department, CS Systèmes d’Information, 5 Rue Brindejonc des Moulinais, BP 15872, 31506, Toulouse Cedex 5, France

   Olivier Balet

2. Université de Perpignan, LTS, 52, avenue de Villeneuve, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France

   Gérard Subsol

3. IRIT - Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Group, 118, rte de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse Cedex

   Patrice Torguet

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