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Science behind Social Tide The challenge for social games
[email protected] May 2012
IT'S ALL ABOUT FACE Part 1
What's up with Facebook Hype or Fad? Users and Photos? It's all about FACE! ◦ Not the music you like! ◦ Not the circles!
Ubiquitous faces Media ◦ Idols, Super Stars ◦ Cover pages ◦ Advertisement
Money Internet ◦ E-mail ◦ IM ◦ Social Network
Facts about Face Cognitive perk of our brains ◦ Specialized ◦ Subconscious
Cultural reference ◦ Masked robbers ◦ Religious taboo ◦ Faceless horror
Facial motion capturing ◦ Movie – The Polar Express, 2004 ◦ Game – LA Noire, 2011
Neurological POV Fusiform Face Area (FFA) Event Related Potentials (ERP) ◦ N170 ◦ Face selective
IGNORANCE OF FACE Part 2
Brief history of Prosopagnosia As long as human history ◦ > 2% in Caucasian ◦ ~ 2% in Chinese (Hong Kong sample)
1947, first described by a doctor 1997, Face Blind!, Bill Choisser 2008, so am I ◦ A blog of MSRA
Awareness of Prosopagnosia Cognitive impairment ◦ Poor face recognition ◦ Lack of facial memory ◦ Immune to idols
Workaround ◦ People know me ◦ Voice recognition ◦ Pretending
Improvement ◦ Photographing ◦ Portrait painting ◦ Movies and TV series ◦ Work and marriage
Neurological POV ERP almost identical ◦ N170, N250 (famous face)
Fusiform Face Area ◦ Specialized region ◦ Significant defects
Summary of Prosopagnosia Cognitive impairment ◦ Not visual defects ◦ Not intellectual defects
Resulted social impairment Lack of awareness ◦ Developmental prosopagnosia ◦ Diagnostics of internet
Acquired Prosopagnosia ◦ Associative – Lose of semantics sense ◦ Apperceptive – No sense at all
IGNORANCE OF SOCIAL Part 3
Autism Spectrum Disorder Prosopagnosia? Yes and No ◦ Developmental ◦ Apperceptive
Severity of ASD ◦ > 1% in Unite States ◦ Boys : Girls = 5 : 1
Severe social impairment Savant syndrome
Neurological POV
Introvert and Extrovert Neurological difference Delight of social activity Positive feedback?
Empathy and Social Emotional capacity ◦ Shared experience of sentient beings ◦ Developed cognitive skill
Cornerstone of society ◦ Emotional communication ◦ Trust and understanding
Engine of arts ◦ Paintings ◦ Fictions ◦ Movies
Neurological POV Natural selection for social brain WYSIWYG + Feedback Painkiller by money Wikipedia:
When children are shown videoclips with situations where they see people suffering pain by coincidence, neural circuits related to pain are being activated in their brain.
Summary of ASD Lack of empathy Risk factors ◦ Notorious “Vaccine Theory” ◦ Genetic risk Risk of twins Risk of siblings
Society is harsh to ASD patients Interventions Questions?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
SOCIAL RENAISSANCE Part 4
Case Study – Facebook
Eye Tracking – Facebook
Case Study – MFS
Challenge for social games Demands for social networks ◦ Social interaction – Facebook ◦ Social establishment – Linked-in ◦ Social entertainment – Zynga
Road to true social ◦ Friends in Cityville ◦ Word with Friends ◦ Draw something
More than viral and engagement
What's missing Vocal and music ◦ Media presence ◦ Intimacy, security
Gesture and Kinect ◦ More than video ◦ Dot-only animations
Tele-presence ◦ Real-time feedback ◦ Eye contact
Will we see those in games?