We describe an immersive music visualization application which enables interaction between a live musician and a responsive virtual character. The character reacts to live performa...
Interactive virtual characters are nowadays commonplace in games, animations, and Virtual Reality (VR) applications. However, relatively few work has so far considered the animatio...
Matthias Weber, Guido Heumer, Heni Ben Amor, Bernh...
While mechanical cloth simulation systems are widely used for creating draped garments on virtual characters, the animation of virtual garments raise challenges on its own. The pe...
The confluence of virtual reality and artificial life, an emerging discipline that spans the computational and biological sciences, has yielded synthetic worlds inhabited by reali...
Researchers demand much from their embodied conversational agents (ECAs), requiring them to be both life-like, as well as responsive to events in an interactive setting. We find t...