{"pk":25877,"title":"An Automatized Heider-Simmel Story Generation Tool","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The social psychologists Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel have shown in the 1950s that movies about very simple\nobject interactions are typically interpreted in a very social manner, quickly perceiving motivations and emotions. We have\ndeveloped a tool to generate Heider-Simmel-like videos. In contrast to the Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater project by\nAndrew Gordon and colleagues, though, our tool enables the generation of story-lines. The user is offered a manifold of\nindividual object behaviors, such as approaching, avoiding, or circling around another object, and a manifold of perceptual\nevents, such as the detection of another object, the touch of another object, etc. Behavior-event complexes can be chosen and\nconcatenated by an intuitive user interface. The resulting story lines are then played-out by the tool in different scenarios,\nyielding different videos about socially similar interactions. The tool may be very useful for conducting future social- and\nobject-interaction-related cognitive science projects.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90c2k3nw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Martin","middle_name":"V","last_name":"Butz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T¨ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Geirhos","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T¨ubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Jan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kneissler","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of T¨ubingen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25877/galley/15501/download/"}]}