Cute or creepy, that is the question of liveness: can artificial actors perform live?

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Artnodes Pub Date : 2023-07-07 DOI:10.7238/artnodes.v0i32.412093
Sahar Sajadieh
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This paper examines the liveness of the performative acts of technologically simulated or synthesized agents in interaction with humans. It questions the ability of artificial performers to construct a sense of live presence on stage and in other daily performative scenarios and evaluates our perception of liveness in those contexts. In this critical and comparative analysis, I study the live quality of Hatsune Miku’s live musical performances – a computer-generated cyber celebrity with a three-dimensional holographic body and an artificially synthesized singing voice – and the stimulating interactions of PARO, the seal – an adorable therapeutic cuddle-robot utilized as an emotional companion in nursing homes and hospitals. Using performance and media theories, I examine the audience/users’ affective responses and engagement quality with the holographic singer and the robotic pet, directly leading to the acceptance or rejection of the claim to the liveness of these techno-actors. This research also evaluates the impact of the application of cuteness (or kawaii) in designing non-human agents versus the emergence of creepiness in interactions with their incorporeal bodies on our emotive response. The objective is to study the difference between the liveness and aliveness of non-human, non-living performing agents and the impact of evoking the sense of “cute” versus “creepy” on warping the Uncanny Valley Curve.
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可爱还是令人毛骨悚然,这就是活力的问题:人造演员能现场表演吗?
本文考察了技术模拟或合成制剂在与人类互动中的表演行为的活跃性。它质疑人工表演者在舞台上和其他日常表演场景中构建现场存在感的能力,并评估我们在这些环境中对现场的感知。在这篇批评性和比较性的分析中,我研究了Hatsune Miku现场音乐表演的现场质量——一个拥有三维全息身体和人工合成歌声的计算机生成的网络名人——以及PARO的刺激性互动,海豹是一种可爱的治疗性拥抱机器人,在疗养院和医院用作情感伴侣。利用表演和媒体理论,我研究了观众/用户对全息歌手和机器宠物的情感反应和参与质量,直接导致接受或拒绝这些技术演员的生命力。这项研究还评估了可爱(或kawaii)在设计非人类代理时的应用,以及在与非物质身体的互动中出现的恐怖对我们情绪反应的影响。目的是研究非人类、非活体表演代理人的活力和活力之间的差异,以及唤起“可爱”和“令人毛骨悚然”的感觉对扭曲Uncanny Valley曲线的影响。
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