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DEFORM
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Communicative Autonomous Agents
: We present a way to mix the lower control of agents with the high level specifications of their goals. This paper addresses various topics required to animate virtual humans in a...
Angela Caicedo, Jean-Sébastien Monzani, Dan...
CHI
2007
ACM
13 years 6 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...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation of individual spontaneous reactive behavior
The context of this work is the search for realism and believability of Virtual Humans. Our contribution to achieve this goal is to enable Virtual Humans (VH) to react to spontane...
Alejandra García-Rojas, Mario Gutiér...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical Petri Nets for Story Plots Featuring Virtual Humans
Petri Nets can be used for a retrospective analysis of a computer game story, for representing plots in serious games as well as for monitoring the course of the story, as recentl...
Daniel Balas, Cyril Brom, Adam Abonyi, Jakub Gemro...
AAAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...
AFRIGRAPH
2003
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A lightwave 3D plug-in for modeling long hair on virtual humans
Multimedia applications today make use of virtual humans. Generating realistic virtual humans is a challenging problem owing to a number of factors, one being the simulation of re...
Deborah Patrick, Shaun Bangay
CHI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Social responses to virtual humans: implications for future interface design
Do human-human social interactions carry over to humanvirtual human social interactions? How does this affect future interface designers? We replicated classical tests of social i...
Catherine A. Zanbaka, Amy Catherine Ulinski, Paula...
PG
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Real-time virtual humans
The last few years have seen great maturationin the computation speed and control methods needed to portray 3D virtualhumanssuitableforreal interactiveapplications. We first desc...
Norman I. Badler
VW
1998
Springer
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Animated Impostors for Real-Time Display of Numerous Virtual Humans
Rendering and animating in real-time a multitude of articulated characters presents a real challenge and few hardware systems are up to the task. Up to now little research has bee...
Amaury Aubel, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann
CA
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Representing and Parameterizing Agent Behaviors
The last few years have seen great maturation in understanding how to use computer graphics technology to portray 3D embodied characters or virtual humans. Unlike the off-line, an...
Norman I. Badler, Jan M. Allbeck, Liwei Zhao, Meer...