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-======M14 First Skeleton Companions======
+======M14 First Skeleton Companions : April 2009======
 **D9.2. First skeleton companions M14 Result of completion of T9.1.2 Report, live experiment**
+Very sketchy ideas at this point, pending more information and getting hands dirty with ION. Will be pruned and solidified as more information is acquired.
+=====Automatic Theatres=====
+What:
+  * Multiple interacting agents
+  * Long term memory and personality based on fictional characters
+  * Short term memory based on beginning of play
+  * Audience participation
+Why:
+  * Audience familiar with characters
+  * Could form a good benchmark for social interaction
+  * How do they resolve interesting social situations
+  * Start in the middle of a familiar story?
+  * What happens after the story ends?
+Further:
+  * [[http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/16/169.html|Heron's Nauplius]]
+  * Robot Macbeth
+  * Robot Soap Operas
+=====Alternative affective communication=====
+What:
+  * Look into alternative methods of communicating affective state to the user
+  * Non-vocal sounds
+  * Non-literal visuals
+Why:
+  * Uncanny valley
+  * Remove the problem of simulating human expressions
+  * The challenge of meeting the robot halfway in mutual understanding might be more engaging
+  * Task of deciphering results in more implied/imagined content
+  * People work together to try and understand
+Further:
+  * [[http://www.boutiquevizique.com/dustbunnies/index.html|Dust bunnies]]