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HCI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Emotionally Expressive Avatars for Chatting, Learning and Therapeutic Intervention
We present our work on emotionally expressive avatars, animated virtual characters that can express emotions via facial expressions. Because these avatars are highly distinctive an...
Marc Fabri, Salima Y. Awad Elzouki, David J. Moore
IJCAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Augmented Experiment: Participatory Design with Multiagent Simulation
To test large scale socially embedded systems, this paper proposes a multiagent-based participatory design that consists of two steps; 1) participatory simulation, where scenario-...
Toru Ishida, Yuu Nakajima, Yohei Murakami, Hideyuk...
IWEC
2004
15 years 8 months ago
How Realistic is Realism? Considerations on the Aesthetics of Computer Games
One of the major goals in the development of virtual environments in recent years has been to create more and more realistic scenery, characters and natural human forms of interact...
Richard Wages, Stefan Grünvogel, Benno Gr&uum...
PDPTA
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Queryball: A New Model for Querying in Immersive VR Systems
— In this paper, we propose a powerful and convenient querying model, "Queryball", for users to query in immersive VR systems. In immersive VR systems, users expect int...
Chiemi Watanabe, Ayumi Osugi, Yoshifumi Masunaga, ...
MM
2010
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Changing characters' point of view in interactive storytelling
Virtual characters are at the epicentre of Interactive Storytelling systems and in recent years multiple AI planning approaches have been described to specify their autonomous beh...
Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza