YOSHIDA SHIGEO

Smart Face: Enhancing Creativity during Video Conferences using Real-time Facial Deformaion

About

Smart Face is a method for improving creativity by changing the facial appearance of people during video conferences. We focus on enhancing creativity during human interactions, especially cooperative work situations such as video conferences. Psychological studies have revealed that the facial appearance of people can affect creativity, i.e., “emotion can affect creativity” and “the appearance of others can affect the emotions.” Based on the knowledge, we hypothesized that the media technology which modifies the facial appearance of people appropriately can enhance our creativity during cooperative work. Therefore, we develop a method to affect creativity by changing the facial appearance in real-time, such as facial expressions and facial resemblance. We test the effectiveness of this method by building a system for collaborative video conferences. The user study show that the proposed method could enhance creativity.

Smart Faceは、容貌を変化させることによって、ブレインストーミングの能力を向上するシステムです。

Publications & Awards

櫻井翔、中里直人、吉田成朗、鳴海拓志、谷川智洋、廣瀬通孝:表情変形フィードバックによる遠隔協調作業における創造力向上支援、日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文誌、Vol.20 No.4、2015年12月https://doi.org/10.18974/tvrsj.20.4_323 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文賞

Naoto Nakazato, Shigeo Yoshida, Sho Sakurai, Takuji Narumi, Tomohiro Tanikawa, and Michitaka Hirose. 2014. Smart Face: enhancing creativity during video conferences using real-time facial deformation. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (CSCW ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 75–83. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531637 (ACM Author-Izer)

中里直人, 吉田成朗, 櫻井翔, 鳴海拓志, 谷川智洋, 廣瀬通孝:協調作業における創造性向上のための対話相手の容貌変化手法の検討 , 第18回日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会 (VRSJ2013), 2013年9月

中里直人, 吉田成朗, 櫻井翔, 鳴海拓志, 谷川智洋, 廣瀬通孝:ビデオチャットを用いたブレインストーミングにおける表情変形の効果, マルチメディア・仮想環境基礎研究会, IEICE-MVE2013, 2013年6月 MVE賞