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CG
2004
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Where computers disappear, virtual humans appear
In this paper, we survey the role of virtual humans (or embodied conversational agents) in smart and ambient intelligence environments. Research in this area can profit from resea...
Anton Nijholt
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Synthetic Vision, Memory, and Learning Models for Virtual Humans
This paper presents a simple and efficient method of modeling synthetic vision, memory, and learning for autonomous animated characters in real-time virtual environments. The mode...
James J. Kuffner Jr., Jean-Claude Latombe
CW
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Disappearing Computers, Social Actors and Embodied Agents
Presently, there are user interfaces that allow multimodal interactions. Many existing research and prototype systems introduced embodied agents, assuming that they allow a more n...
Anton Nijholt
AGENTS
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Where to Look? Automating Attending Behaviors of Virtual Human Characters
This research proposes a computational framework for generating visual attending behavior in an embodied simulated human agent. Such behaviors directly control eye and head motion...
Sonu Chopra-Khullar, Norman I. Badler
CHINZ
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Where you point is where the robot is
It is virtually envisioned that in the near future home-service robots will be assisting people in their daily lives. While a wide spectrum of utility of home-service robots has b...
Hokyoung Ryu, Woohun Lee