This paper presents results on the selection of application scenarios and persona design for sociolect and dialect speech synthesis. These results are derived from a listening expe...
Word importance discrimination is a task deserving attention when one treats a topic from TREC where a topic is quite long. The goal of the process is to estimate importance of wo...
We report a novel method for logging and annotating video footage specifically for professional post-production and archivist end users. SALSA – Semi-Automated Logging with Sema...
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin
The inertial force due to the acceleration of a locomotion interface is identified as a difference between virtual and real-world locomotion. To counter the inertial force, inerti...
Robert R. Christensen, John M. Hollerbach, Yangmin...