2020 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Arter - an AI powered storyboarding tool

Entrant Company

ArtCenter College of Design

Category

Conceptual Design - Interaction

Client's Name

Country / Region

United States

Arter - is an AI-powered storyboarding tool. The AI agent, Art, works by listening for a user's input and, through NLP (Natural Language Processing), parses each word into an image object using image association analysis. The context of this work was part of our senior interaction design class at ArtCenter College of Design, where the goal was to gain a deeper understanding of machine learning by exploring its associated technologies. And through that, let our discovery and insights drive our conceptualization. Through our research, we found that instead of relying solely on AI to act autonomously on our behalf, we could use it as a tool that works alongside the human, for better, more cohesive collaboration, and that it shouldn't eliminate the role of the human. Which led us to how we generated the brief for our area of focus: How might we leverage the power of machine learning and natural language processing to enhance the way we communicate and visualize our ideas?

As humans, the need to communicate is essential, and it is something that we do every day. Our primary tool is language, most often written or spoken, and through many different mediums. We use it to express how we feel, to explain what we're thinking, and to understand the world around us. But, more often than not, much is lost in translation. So, as humans we have found methods to make up for that, we use cameras to capture a memory, we use our voice to record our thoughts, and we use a pencil to illustrate our points. The pencil tends to be the rawest and connected to our subconscious, but hardest to translate. With the power of Machine Learning, we can ease that burden. Our goal isn't to replace written or spoken language, it's to leverage it and provide a user with the ability to depict their thoughts, without the burden of having to know how to draw.

Credits

Co-Founder
Rodney Edwards
Co-Founder
Siladityaa Sharma
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