Visual Creativity 1

"To a human storyteller, a story is more than a textual artifact. Rather, as stories are both generated and generative, each is also a blueprint for performances to come. Tellers must draw on their own bodily affordances – from voice and gesture to
movement around a stage – to bring stories to life, much as a conductor and an orchestra must translate a written score into actual music.
This work explores the creative challenge of translating from a story-text to a story-performance, from words to physical actions and characters to embodied actors. The mapping requires distinct models for gesture, narration, orientation, 
dialogue and stage direction if computer-generated tales are to transcend the limitations of their production process. Using the Scéalability framework, we evaluate the interlocking role of spatial metaphor and pantomime in turning a narrative artifact into a coherent performance."

Show, Don’t (Just) Tell: Embodiment and Spatial Metaphor in Computational Story-Telling

The task of translating text to images holds some valid creative potential and has been the subject of study in Computational Creativity. In this paper, we present preliminary work focused on emoji translation. The work-in-progress system is based on techniques of information retrieval. We compare the performance of our system with three deep learning approaches using a text-to-emoji task. The preliminary results suggest some advantages of using a knowledge-base as opposed to a purely data-driven approach. This paper aims to situate the research, underline its relevance and attract valuable feedback for future developments.

An Approach for Text-to-Emoji Translation

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Computational creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. As a field of research, this area is thriving, with progress in formalising what it means for software to be creative, along with many exciting and valuable applications of creative software in the sciences, the arts, literature, gaming and elsewhere.

The ICCC conference series organized by the Association for Computational Creativity since 2010 is the only scientific conference that focuses on computational creativity alone and also covers all aspects of it.


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The ICCC conference series organized by the Association for Computational Creativity since 2010 is the only scientific conference that focuses on computational creativity alone and also covers all aspects of it.
Computational creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviors that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. As a field of research, this area is thriving, with progress in formalizing what it means for software to be creative, along with many exciting and valuable applications of creative software in the sciences, the arts, literature, gaming and elsewhere.



Philipp Wicke

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Visual Creativity 1

Show, Don’t (Just) Tell: Embodiment and Spatial Metaphor in Computational Story-Telling

An Approach for Text-to-Emoji Translation