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IVA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching Virtual Characters How to Use Body Language
Abstract. Non-verbal communication, or “body language”, is a critical component in constructing believable virtual characters. Most often, body language is implemented by a set...
Doron A. Friedman, Marco Gillies
IAT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Agents along the Virtuality Continuum
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
Elisabeth André
CHI
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education
Any new tool introduced for education needs to be validated. We developed a virtual human experience called the Virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination (VOSCE). In the V...
Kyle Johnsen, Andrew Raij, Amy O. Stevens, D. Scot...
PRESENCE
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
"It/I": A Theater Play Featuring an Autonomous Computer Character
"It / I" is a two-character theater play where the human character I (played by a real actor) is taunted and played with by an autonomous computer character It on a comp...
Claudio S. Pinhanez, Aaron F. Bobick
CAPTECH
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Goal-Directed Navigation for Animated Characters Using Real-Time Path Planning and Control
Abstract. This paper presents a new technique for computing collisionfree navigation motions from task-level commands for animated human characters in interactive virtual environme...
James J. Kuffner Jr.