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 otherwisecontroversial interaction styles and suggests new directions for human-agent interaction. Keywords: Co-adaptive systems, Human-Agent interaction, Intelligent agents, Motion Capture

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