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Wander: An AI-driven Chatbot to Visit the Future Earth

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Ying Xu,

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MM '22: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Pages 7250 - 7251

https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3549971

Published: 10 October 2022 Publication History

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This artwork presents an intelligent chatbot called Wander. This work used knowledge-based story generation to facilitate a narrative AI chatbot on daily communication platforms, producing interactive fiction with the most accessible natural language input: text messages. On social media platforms such as Discord and WeChat, Wander can generate a science-fiction style travelogue about the future earth, including text, images and global coordinates (GPS) based on real-world locations (e.g. Paris). The journeys are visualised in real-time on an interactive map that can be updated with participants' data. Based on Viktor Shklovsky's defamiliarization technique, we present how an AI agent can become a storyteller through common messages in daily life and lead participants to see the world from new perspectives. The website of this work is: https://wander001.com/

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Wander: An AI-driven Chatbot to Visit the Future Earth
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Media arts
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction techniques
      1. Text input
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods

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MM '22: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

October 2022

7537 pages

ISBN:9781450392037

DOI:10.1145/3503161

General Chairs:
João Magalhães
NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Alberto del Bimbo
University of Florence, Italy
,
Shin'ichi Satoh
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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Nicu Sebe
University of Trento, Italy
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Program Chairs:
Xavier Alameda-Pineda
Inria, Grenoble, France
,
Qin Jin
Renmin University of China, China
,
Vincent Oria
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
,
Laura Toni
University College London, UK

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