ODO: Design of Multimodal Chatbot for an Experiential Media System

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 system can perform tasks including face detection and emotion classification, tracking of crowd movement through mobile phones, and real-time conversation to guide users through a nonlinear story and interactive games. The final prototype, named ODO, is a tangible embodiment of a distributed multimedia system that solves several technical challenges to provide users with a unique experience through novel interaction.

Distributed Multimedia System for Distance Education

A distributed multimedia system (DMS) come to play as a backbone of 21th century to provide sophisticated technology to realize such a modern distance education/learning. In this paper, we describe distributed multimedia system for distance education that could be implemented at Kathmandu University and how this system interacts with other University i.e. Tribhuvan University. Proposed framework brings an abstraction and its infrastructure for multimedia materials storage, management, real time review of this multimedia on demand and a shared whiteboard on web browser to distance learner. For the design of the proposed system, it is necessary to consider different requirement and management of Quality of Service (QoS). This system is made available to only registered student/users through various networks i.e. Local Area Network (LAN)/Internet using university's own VPN user ID and Password. In addition, proposed system provides abstraction in which distance learner or student access lecturer presentation/notes on web browser and can review multimedia lecture's notes, presentation on demand. Student or people could have different reasons for attending distance education/learning such as constraints of time, distance, and finance etc. So, distance education system should reduce the distance gap between a student/participants and lecturer. This is done by quick response interaction between lecturer and student throughout the system. The main objective of this paper is to provide distance education platform while guarantying secure communication and user on demand multimedia access with the sophisticated QoS.