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IVA
2005
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Providing Computer Game Characters with Conversational Abilities
This paper presents the NICE fairy-tale game system, which enables adults and children to engage in conversation with animated characters in a 3D world. In this paper we argue that...
Joakim Gustafson, Johan Boye, Morgan Fredriksson, ...
IEEEAMS
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Smart Doorplates - Toward an Autonomic Computing System
The last three decades proved Moore’s Law. We witnessed an exponential increase in processing power, memory capacity and communication bandwidth and we expect this increase to c...
Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, Theo U...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
98views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
15 years 11 months ago
Computational Issues in the Planning and Kinematics of Binary Robots
To meet the objectives of many future missions, robots will need to be adaptable and reconfigurable. A concept for such a robotic system has been proposed previously based on usin...
Matthew D. Lichter, Vivek A. Sujan, Steven Dubowsk...
POPL
1997
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A Unified Computation Model for Functional and Logic Programming
We propose a new computation model which combines the operational principles of functional languages (reduction), logic languages (non-deterministic search for solutions), and int...
Michael Hanus
CVHI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Terrain Analysis for Blind Wheelchair Users: Computer Vision Algorithms for Finding Curbs and other Negative Obstacles
: We are developing computer vision algorithms for sensing important terrain features as an aid to wheelchair navigation, which interpret visual information obtained from images co...
James Coughlan, Huiying Shen