Paper Info
Title
Towards Interactive Operas: the Virtualis Project
Abstract
We are presenting the Virtualis project, which is a virtual interactive opera : it is a CD-ROM opera specially designed and composed to be " performed " on any personal computer and proposing possibilities of interaction. Opera can then be accessed at home and no longer in theatres. It is both an artistic project (as an opera creation) and a scientific one (in the ficld of human-machine interaction). We have first been modelling the interaction situation in traditional opera using an interagent collaboration formalism called MADEINCOOP. We then applied this model to the interactive opera performance, where a user faces a computer. For the interaction model, we have choscn to usc an analogy of a systcm of physical forces (e.g. electrical or gravitation forces). Forces and fields rule the evolution of the positions of the characters on the screen, whereas the uscrilistener triggers perturbations by bisiher actions. We are currently implementing the Virrrnulis project, using Director and also a specific environment named ALMA we have developped. It enables the creation of fine correspondances between musical fragments (described using GUIDO language) and graphical 3D elements. The user may wander inside music and interact with it, either with sounds or texts.
Year
Venue
Field
2001
ICHIM (1)
PHYSICAL FORCES,Musical,Computer science,Personal computer,Interaction model,Human–computer interaction,Formalism (philosophy),Analogy,Opera
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alain Bonardi11111.70
Francis Rousseaux21816.78