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IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Human-Centered Distributed Conversational Modeling: Efficient Modeling of Robust Virtual Human Conversations
Currently, applications that focus on providing conversations with virtual humans require extensive work to create robust conversational models. We present a new approach called Hu...
Brent Rossen, Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Learning a model of speaker head nods using gesture corpora
During face-to-face conversation, the speaker’s head is continually in motion. These movements serve a variety of important communicative functions. Our goal is to develop a mod...
Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella
MMM
2005
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Database Support for Haptic Exploration in Very Large Virtual Environments
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The intermediary agent's brain: supporting learning to collaborate at the inter-personal level
We discuss the design of the Intermediary Agent's brain, the control module of an embodied conversational virtual peer in a simulation game aimed at providing learning experi...
Juan Martínez-Miranda, Bernhard Jung, Sabin...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating models of speaker head nods for virtual agents
Virtual human research has often modeled nonverbal behaviors based on the findings of psychological research. In recent years, however, there have been growing efforts to use auto...
Jina Lee, Zhiyang Wang, Stacy Marsella