: Research has found that animated characters are capable of capturing users’ attention, engaging them in active tasks, and entertaining them. Such capabilities are pedagogical t...
Abstract. How to create effective body animations for virtual agents with emotions remains the state of the art for human animators and a great challenge for computer scientists. I...
Our goal is to design and build a tool for the creation of expressive character animation. Virtual puppetry, also known as performance animation, is a technique in which the user ...
Sageev Oore, Demetri Terzopoulos, Geoffrey E. Hint...
The developers and users of real-time graphics, such as games and virtual reality, are demanding ever more realistic computer generated images. Despite the availability of modern ...
Georgia Mastoropoulou, Kurt Debattista, Alan Chalm...
This paper investigates the manner in which decisionmaking is influenced by the impressions given by lifelike agents in negotiation situations. These impressions comprise an agent...