The ability to learn is a potentially compelling and important quality for interactive synthetic characters. To that end, we describe a practical approach to real-time learning fo...
Bruce Blumberg, Marc Downie, Yuri A. Ivanov, Matt ...
Compelling synthetic characters must behave in ways that reflect their past experience and thus allow for individual personalization. We therefore need a method that allows charac...
Song-Yee Yoon, Robert C. Burke, Bruce Blumberg, Ge...
Virtual environments are now becoming a promising new technology to be used in the development of interactive learning environments for children. Perhaps triggered by the success ...
Audio-visual emotion expression by synthetic agents is widely employed in research, industrial, and commercial applications. However, the mechanism through which people judge the ...
Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja J. Mataric, Shrikan...