An Android Application for Supporting Amatuer Theatre

An Android Application for Yuya Toyoda, Saori Nakajo, and Tetsuro Kitahara Our aim Support of amature theatre A popular activity in school clubs etc. 3 difficulties in amature theatre Our solution Diff. 1 Difficult for actors to grasp beforehand what their performance will be like 3D stage visualization function Diff. 2 Difficult for staff to picture the plan in their head Lighting / sound simulation function Diff. 3 Difficult to share each performer/staff's image with others Information sharing function Application overview Script area Stage area Menu Check the stage in 3D CG Switch the control area among: Lighting 1 Lighting 2 Sound Stage Set Stage settings are synchronized Control area Sound Lighting 1 Lighting 2 Control intensity of each light Edit the time-line of each light's intensity Edit the time-line of each sound's volume Stage set Put and move objects in the stage Play back lighting and sound Automatically reflected in stage area , g n i t h g i l e r a h s & s k g c n e i t h t c e s n a e c g a u t o s Y d n a , d n u o s Objects appear in all shared devices

Supporting Amatuer Theatre Nihon University, Japan http://www.kthrlab.jp/ Related works Acting in VR Bowen Virtual Theatre (Slater et al. 2000) (Lewis et al. 2003) Virtual Theatre Linked with a Miniature Stage (Hoiruchi et al. 2011) 2 Actors can check their performance in VR space Directors can check stage settings in VR space Multiple people share stage settings with miniature stage on the table Experiments Purpose Procedure Verify the effectiveness of our application in preparation of an actual performance Participants 10 days before Lent tablets with our application st 1 one-hour meeting (use our application) (Use our application freely) 7 days before nd 2 one-hour meeting (use our application) (Use our application freely) 4 days before rd 3 one-hour meeting (use our application) (Use our application freely) 1 day before 4 one-hour meeting (use our application) Actual performance Questionnaire Lighting Sound Stage set Actors th Q1 Did it become easier to picture your performance with this function? Q2 Did this function help you in your performance plan? Q3 Was this function easy to use? Results Difficulty 1 d e v l o s e r t o N Difficulty 2 t r a P Fairly good Totally low Low Opinion: Simulation on tablets were useful for sharing ideas but sharing through the net sometimes failed d e v l o s e ly r Difficulty 3 y l t r Pa d e v l o s re

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