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Summary:
Picturephone was introduce in reading #24, so if any background information on Picturephone is necessary, please refer to that paper. The game works in 3 basic steps:
1) party 1 describes picture in text
2) party 2 creates sketch based on text
3) party 3 judges similarity between picture and text description
The paper did not contain a results section, so this leads to doubt about Picturephone's usability testing. The author does state users will only play Picturephone if it is engaging. The author mentioned tools and features used to attract and hold the user's attention, but was careful to state such tools and features should not destroy the original purpose of Picturephone.
Discussion:
I was a little surprised to learn this mini-game had its own paper. I had assumed the author included it in reading #24 and dropped it afterward. The paper does bring up the interesting point that people interpret the same description differently. I once did a similar exercise in an English class in middle school. We all drew a picture based on a textual description and we found both our descriptions and sketches lacking. Give 2 users the same description and you will get 2 different sketches, guaranteed. Coping with this human idiosyncrasy will become a very pertinent topic in future sketch recognition research. I also noticed chunks of text in this paper were identical to chunks of text in reading #24.
Yes, I agree that this paper is basically does not add much to what we saw in #24, containing even the same chunks of text. I also think you are right about the difficulty in converting words to text is usually fuzzy and dependent on interpretation, although the resulting data may be very interesting to analyze I think that it is not very usable for training recognizers.
ReplyDeleteThis paper only give some more details. Ahh....
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