Total Pageviews

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Reading #26: Picturephone: A Game for Sketch Data Capture (Johnson)

Comment:
Chris
Summary:
In this paper, the author introduce the PicturePhone, a game for sketch data capture. This game needs three participants, the first participant is required to draw sketch according to the discritpion. The game works as follows: Player A is given a text description, and they must make a drawing that captures that description as accurately as possible. Player B receives the drawing and endeavors to describe it. Player C is given Player B's description and draws it. An unrelated player D is asked to judge how closely Player A and C's drawing match, which assigns a score to players A,B and C. The purpose of this system is to collect sketch data for researchers.


Discussion:
This is a smart idea. The data collection is very important for sketch recogntion research. And data collection itself is not easy for researchers. This software gives us a new way for collecting data, while encourage people to participate in data collection. But the problem is, at least in my opinion, I will not be happy to play such game, which seems boring to me and waste of time, and I don't care about how much score I get...

No comments:

Post a Comment