Experiment materials

• Polygonal agent corpora

  • Heider-Simmel animation (re-rendered in Flash by Sara Kiesler’s lab)
  • Barrett-Blythe-Todd-Miller ant animations
  • Hard-Tversky animation
  • (in prep) Pautler-Koenig animations and collected data

• Point-light corpora

  • CMU graphics lab motion capture database
  • Zaini et al (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia) hand and finger gestures (abstract on PubMed) (20MB zip of mov files) described in pdf
  • Verfaillie 2004 (3MB zip described in abstract)
  • Hsu-Pulli-Popovik 2005

• Human actor video corpora

  • McAleer-Pollick at University of Glasgow
  • University of Oregon behavior science video archive (see links to videos in column 1 of table)
  • Verfaillie 2010 (52MB zip described in abstract); includes point-light also

Source code

• Robert Thibadeau’s schema recognizer applied to the Heider-Simmel animation
• MIT “Church” language for Bayesian inference models with repository of models (Goodman, Tenenbaum, and others)
• Wayang (Pautler, Wirawan, Kumaresh)

Demonstrations

• Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater at ICT/USC