Chris Ziegler

Arizona State University | ASU · School of Arts, Media and Engineering

ODO is a journey through worlds of imagination inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince and Stanley Kubrick’s “HAL9000” in 2001: A Space Odyssey. An AI character lives on stage as in Plato’s Cave. ODO can’t leave the stage; ODO is offline … Every visitor to the installation means the world to him/her/it. It collects stories and narrativ...

This paper presents the design of a multimodal chatbot for use in an interactive theater performance. This chatbot has an architecture consisting of vision and natural language processing capabilities, as well as embodiment in a non-anthropomorphic movable LED array set in a stage. Designed for interaction with up to five users at a time, the syste...

Simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) describes a problem in applications such as robotics, self-driving vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, of mapping an environment while simultaneously tracking agents and navigating within it. Existing research has focused on increasing the speed and quality of this mapping process, while reducing cost. I...

This paper describes the concept and development of the interactive installation "Pre-Choreographic Movement Kit". It utilizes a dance concept as a starting point to use physical objects for generating movements, using sensor-based motion tracking. The "Pre-Choreographic Movement Kit" is part of the interdisciplinary research project"Pre- Choreogra...