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In September 2005, we will run user studies combining The Moving Pictures Video Jockey platform to Terraria (to shoot video in the exhibition space) and Multimodal Drumsteps (to create personal soundtracks).

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The Save the Robots Picture Gallery is online at: http://www.ark.ie/savetherobots/galleries/

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Peter Howick, movie critic for The Evening Herald, has made few movie clips with Terraria and tells us a story ... http://www.ark.ie/savetherobots/howick.html

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Terraria has been accepted at Siggraph 2005 and a poster will be presented (see picture on the side) Vaucelle, C., Gorman, M. J., Clancy, A., & Tangney, B. Re-thinking real time video making for the museum exhibition space. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'05 Conference Abstracts and Applications, Los Angeles, California, USA. (pages in press) July 2005. The paper accepted can be downloaded here: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/crite/publications/sources/Terraria05.pdf

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Michael John Gorman has also a lot of fun playing with Terraria! "Terraria really takes the simplest idea of children's play -- playing with toys, and adding voices, turning toys into characters, and allows children to capture the play on video, and turns movie-making into a natural extension of play. For me that is what is great about it -- filming emerges from play, enhances play, and allows play to be recorded, shared, viewed, tweaked." --Michael John Gorman

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The snow part of Terraria waiting for children to play with it !

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Young children today at the exhibition playing with Terraria

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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It is a collaborative process!

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The robots feel lonely without the children

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Maybe the father has as much fun as his child!

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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A child with his father! A great way to spend time creating with your children!

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Kids gather and make their movie, their creations are projected on the main screen

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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People enjoy Terraria a lot at the exhibition. Today Peter Howick has tried to make his movie using Terraria

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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From a pilot study we observed a need for transparent interaction with video especially in an exhibition context, thus we opted for editing concurrent to capturing using a device that 10-14 year olds feel comfortable using: a joystick.

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Visitors playing with Terraria the 28th of June 2005

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The diaporama of movies generated automatically by the creation of the visitors using the 4 Terraria Landscapes. We aim to engage the audience in creating a final movie and in contributing to the exhibition space by presenting their piece instantly.

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The Desert Landscape part of Terraria during the exhibition

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The City Landscape part of Terraria during the exhibition

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The Snow Landscape part of Terraria during the exhibition

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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The Mars Landscape part of Terraria during the exhibition

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Previous work on immersive storytelling for children showed that children became engaged in the physical space when they could control the physical elements of their story [Bobick et al. 1999]. With Terraria, we propose that young users capture and edit their visual stories while they narrate their story, e.g. voice over, prepare the actors, e.g. automated toy robots, insert audio effects, e.g. panning left-right, visual effects, e.g. RGB values modified, and soundtracks, e.g. selecting songs fr...

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Terraria has been given to children aged 10-14 to experiment with. Pilots informed us of the need to rethink the interface between capturing and editing, as well as to simplify the commands of the movie. During pilot studies, we found that the users would want to use a device they were familiar with, such as a joystick, to interact in a playful and effective way while creating their visual stories.

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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A final user test has been made today at the Ark, Dublin, Ireland. Three children, two girls and one boy have played with of landscape of terraria. It all went great. We will only avoid the mix of external soundtracks and video to have a very fact playback from the movie. Soundtracks will be chosen from the projection space. I would like to thank Michael John Gorman, curator of the Save the Robots exhibition for giving me space to develop this project. Andrew Clancy sculptor of the 4 Terrari...

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Description Our system Terraria captures movie segments, voice over, and offers real-time video and sound effects. The user records sounds and visuals, and applies real time effects using a joystick. Consequently, a novel movie gets created and generated in a very transparent, and easy manner. The simplicity of use, and immediacy of response aims to engage visitors in movie creation. Video capture, editing and publication of the final video is optimized. To another extent, the system can easi...

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Related research Our work is inspired by previous research that facilitates the transition between video editing and capturing for 10-14 year olds [Vaucelle et al. 2005] and it extends the concept to the making of movies within the context of an exhibition. While usual editing tools such as iMovie™ facilitate the editing process, they require a longer time frame of interaction than the one offered in an exhibition space and are mainly suitable for home use; on the other hand, digital jockey...

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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Introduction ‘Science and technology’ museums of the last half century afford visitors an entirely new experience while maintaining their learning function [Bell 2002]. Within the context of a three-month exhibition on the history of robots at The Ark: a Cultural Center for Children, in Dublin, Ireland, we have created a system for visitors to author the content of the exhibition space by creating their own movies and telling visual stories using robots. The challenge of making a finished...

posted by: Cati Vaucelle.

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