We discuss the extension of an emotionally-driven agent architecture already applied to the creation of emergent narratives. Synthetic characters are enhanced to perform as actors...
Autonomous synthetic actors must invent variations of known material in order to perform given only a limited script, and to assist the director with development of the performance...
A crowd is not only a group of many individuals. Crowd modelling involves problems that arise only when we focus on crowds. For instance, avoiding collision problems related to a ...
Computer animation has come a long way during the last decade and is now capable of producing near-realistic rendered 3D computer graphics models of expressive, talking, acting hu...
Unlike most existing work on traversable interfaces, we focus on the use of synthetic characters to accompany the user in Mixed Reality (MR) applications. We examine virtual compa...