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Acticon: Interactive Emoji Feedback and Self-monitoring Tool for Actors

Empowering
Engaging
Expressing
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2022
Korea
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Team

Juyeon Park, Yuhwa Kim

Company | Institution

Hongik University

Category

Concept

Type

Student

Project description

Acticon is an engaging and expressive tool for actors and their supporting communities. Acticon connects participants in a delightful manner through versatile self-monitoring features, script analysis, and filtered feedback via emojis. The solution utilizes gesture, facial, and voice recognitions to make user's input meaningful and elicit appropriate feedback from the community. Acticon features micro-replay, voice notes, and checkpoint markers that help users detect and correct poor acting outcomes. Users can access other users' recordings in the community to further enhance their performances.

World's film and performance communities are suffering from pandemics. Some actors are having difficulties in building their careers as well as losing opportunities for gaining feedback from colleagues due to social distancing policies across and within nations. Acticon serves the timely needs for actors and their communities in this challenging time.

Acticon is designed for primarily bit-part actors searching and preparing for their audition repertoire. Other participants encompass acting community stakeholders; peers, staff, audition managers, and casting directors who could provide monitoring and feedback to actors.

Due to social distancing policies, actors have not been able to gather to perform or practice. Paradoxically, the current situation provided an opportunity for a breakthrough solution enabling self-monitoring and peer feedback through mobile computing technology.

Acticon adopted emoji as a major feedback method as they could instantly convey other’s opinion while not being offensive. We have synthesized 26 poor speech habits that disturb scenic presence and performances from secondary research. Those habits were categorized into 10 types and triangulated by acting trainers and Acticon design teams iteratively. Top five feedback emojis we finalized are; too-tense, high end, volume miss, diction miss, and droop end.

Our research also found that actors usually have difficulties recognizing their poor speech habits by themselves. To address this problem, checkpoints per emoji feedback category are displayed on the actor’s my page view to help users revisit the point where diction was inaccurate. Frames that received a lot of feedback are marked in the video timeline as well.

For interactive script analysis, Acticon delivers punctuation mark icons empowering flexible edit. Actors' intended subtexts can be expressed with five icons; highlight, indicate changes in content, break-in breaths, raise the end of words, and lower the end of words. When analyzing a script, the word-to-word gap is automatically widened if dragging an icon into a sentence. Analysis from other users can be taken to actor’s my page and referred to when enhancing drafts.

Gesture recognition feature helps users to immerse into the character they are acting while filming. Our research found that actors shoot monitoring videos without pause and marking editing points with hand slates. Therefore, Acticon controls the beginning and the end point of shooting by gestures in filming mode.

Acticon plays a leading role in new talent discovery and career opportunities for actors. Audition suggestion feature helps casting directors to message directly by way of self-tapes in Acticon community. Appropriate auditions are recommended to actors based on the acting video analysis. Further, remote live audition and history management feature is considered more meaningful than ever during pandemics.

World's film and performance communities are suffering from pandemics. Some actors are having difficulties in building their careers as well as losing opportunities for gaining feedback from colleagues due to social distancing policies across and within nations. Acticon serves the timely needs for actors and their communities in this challenging time.

Acticon is designed for primarily bit-part actors searching and preparing for their audition repertoire. Other participants encompass acting community stakeholders; peers, staff, audition managers, and casting directors who could provide monitoring and feedback to actors.

Due to social distancing policies, actors have not been able to gather to perform or practice. Paradoxically, the current situation provided an opportunity for a breakthrough solution enabling self-monitoring and peer feedback through mobile computing technology.

Acticon adopted emoji as a major feedback method as they could instantly convey other’s opinion while not being offensive. We have synthesized 26 poor speech habits that disturb scenic presence and performances from secondary research. Those habits were categorized into 10 types and triangulated by acting trainers and Acticon design teams iteratively. Top five feedback emojis we finalized are; too-tense, high end, volume miss, diction miss, and droop end.

Our research also found that actors usually have difficulties recognizing their poor speech habits by themselves. To address this problem, checkpoints per emoji feedback category are displayed on the actor’s my page view to help users revisit the point where diction was inaccurate. Frames that received a lot of feedback are marked in the video timeline as well.

For interactive script analysis, Acticon delivers punctuation mark icons empowering flexible edit. Actors' intended subtexts can be expressed with five icons; highlight, indicate changes in content, break-in breaths, raise the end of words, and lower the end of words. When analyzing a script, the word-to-word gap is automatically widened if dragging an icon into a sentence. Analysis from other users can be taken to actor’s my page and referred to when enhancing drafts.

Gesture recognition feature helps users to immerse into the character they are acting while filming. Our research found that actors shoot monitoring videos without pause and marking editing points with hand slates. Therefore, Acticon controls the beginning and the end point of shooting by gestures in filming mode.

Acticon plays a leading role in new talent discovery and career opportunities for actors. Audition suggestion feature helps casting directors to message directly by way of self-tapes in Acticon community. Appropriate auditions are recommended to actors based on the acting video analysis. Further, remote live audition and history management feature is considered more meaningful than ever during pandemics.

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