“The Beauty of Breaking Rhythms: Affective Robot Motion Design Using Jo-Ha-Kyu of Bunraku Puppet ̄” by Chen, Dong, Cai, Nakagawa, Higaki, et al. …
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- The Beauty of Breaking Rhythms: Affective Robot Motion Design Using Jo-Ha-Kyu of Bunraku Puppet ̄
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One of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritages Bunraku puppets can play one of the most beautiful puppet motions in the world. The sophisticated motions of the Bunraku puppet can express emotions interactively with a fixed facial expression overcoming the so-called “Uncanny Valley”, simultaneously. In the present paper, we study the Bunraku motions using the famous concept so-called “Jo (Introduction) Ha (Breaking) Kyu(Rapid)”. These emotional motions are synchronized with the Jo-ha-kyu. As a result, an android robot can express different affective motion synchronized to the different type of emotional chant or narration with a story that we call Joruri.
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Daniel Holden, Jun Saito, and Taku Komura. 2016. A deep learning framework for character motion synthesis and editing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 35, 4 (2016), 138.
KUNIO KONPARU. 1980. INVITATION TO NOH – SCIENCE BETWEEN JO-HA-KYU AND MA (JAPANESE). TANKOSHA.
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The authors would like to thank the Bunraku performers: Tayu: Tsukoma Takemoto, Shamisen: Sosuke Takezawa, and Puppeteers team Kanjuro Kiritake and 2 others, for providing us the sound and motion data. The present work is supported by the 2nd term ACT-I by JST.
