Abstract. Several challenges remain in the effort to build software capable of conducting realtime dialogue with people. Part of the problem has been a lack of realtime flexibili...
This paper describes the development of Papous, a Virtual Storyteller. Our ultimate goal is to obtain a synthetic character that tells stories in an expressive and believable way, ...
The Semantic Web is intended for knowledge sharing among agents as well as humans. To achieve this goal, Ontologies, which express knowledge in a certain vitality as well as in a ...
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is an objective method for quantifying facial movement in terms of 44 component actions, i.e. Action Units (AUs). This system is widely used...
Instead of aiming at the augmentation of human communication abilities as other social software does, social network services (SNS) provide better chances for people to enhance th...