Week 6: Conversational Machines

Machine perception and voice prototyping — all browser-based, no hardware needed.

Slides

• Lecture: Conversational Machines

Labs

1. Presence Detect — detect if someone is in frame
2. Face Awareness — track face position and attention
3. Gesture Response — hand gesture recognition
4. OCR Reader — read text from camera with Tesseract.js
5. Teachable Machine — zero-code ML with TensorFlow.js
6. Figurate Chat — AI character text + voice
7. Smart Room Voice — webcam sensing → character narration

Demos

• Presence Mirror
• Attention Heatmap
• Gesture Space

Code

All the lab and demo source code, ready to open and modify. No install needed — just unzip, open in VS Code, and use Live Server.

• Download Code Examples (zip)
• Guide & Tutorial — how each example works, where to modify, and things to try