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Note: This repository is the companion code to a research paper in progress. We do not recommend deploying this code for general use.
Please see the prior work from our co-authors to explore the motivation for this research:
"We explored continuous changes in self-other identity by designing an interpersonal facial morphing experience where the facial images of two users are blended and then swapped over time. Both users’ facial images are displayed side by side, with each user controlling their own morphing facial images, allowing us to create and investigate a multifaceted interpersonal experience. To explore this with diverse social relationships, we conducted qualitative and quantitative investigations through public exhibitions. We found that there is a window of self-identification as well as a variety of interpersonal experiences in the facial morphing process. From these insights, we synthesized a Self-Other Continuum represented by a sense of agency and facial identity. This continuum has implications in terms of the social and subjective aspects of interpersonal communication, which enables further scenario design and could complement findings from research on interactive devices for remote communication."
Kye Shimizu, Santa Naruse, Jun Nishida, and Shunichi Kasahara. 2023. Morphing Identity: Exploring Self-Other Identity Continuum through Interpersonal Facial Morphing Experience. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery.
This experiment was deployed using the Empirica platform for studying human social behavior online. Installing this software is a prerequisite to running this code.
- Install Python 3, Pyenv, and Pyenv-Virtualenv
- Install Empirica
- Install TouchDesigner
Finally, clone this repository and run the start.sh script to get started.
The TouchDesigner files have not been provided per the policy of our research sponsors.
There is no single executable for this web application, so please follow installation steps above and have fun!
Eli Claggett
Shunichi Kasahara
MIT