CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
2011
ACM
This paper describes results from a large-scale survey to explore users’ comfort with different styles of avatars for workplace communication. Thirty-one avatars were evaluated ...
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
AAMAS
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
1999
Springer
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
IJMMS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper examines how users negotiate their self-presentation via an avatar used in social media. Twenty participants customised an avatar while thinking aloud. An analysis of t...
CVGIP
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Creating controllable, responsive avatars is an important problem in computer games and virtual environments. Recently, large collections of motion capture data have been exploite...
VIP
2001
13 years 5 months ago
2001
The intersection of theatre-performance, design, and informatics is a fertile area for a broader understanding of the possible design and interaction between people and avatars in...
IWEC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
When players in online games engage in conversation with each other, often through a chat window, their graphical avatars typically do not exhibit interesting behavior. This paper ...
IWEC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
We are investigating face, hand and body expressions to be applied to avatars of a virtual environment to improve their communication capabilities and enrich and facilitate their p...
COST
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
VRML
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1999
ACM
We describe how we implemented the avatars we use to represent users in LivingSpace, our implementation of the Living Worlds standard for multi-user distributed VRML worlds. Livin...