Cuteness in JUSTIN: Adding a Virtual Moderator for Entertaining User in an Audience Participation Game for Collecting Artwork Description Data

This study introduces a virtual animated character (VTuber) to JUSTIN, an audience participation game with a purpose (APGWAP) designed for collecting descriptions for Ukiyo-e artworks. The inspiration of this study is based on the popularity of VTubers, which demonstrate promising results in terms of increasing positive user experience and outcomes on serious purposes. The introduced character serves as a moderator, focusing on promoting active and entertaining gameplay. It is expected that such a moderator would help participants create better descriptions and demonstrate higher involvement in the process. This moderator is also designed under generalization concept, namely, the system with this moderation can be reused on various games.