Abstract. How do we construct credible personalities? The current SAL (Sensitive Artificial Listeners) characters were constructed intuitively and can be unconvincing. In addressin...
Margaret McRorie, Ian Sneddon, Etienne de Sevin, E...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a module of emotions and personality for synthetic actors. Here are presented the results of previous researches, which were t...
It is well known that utterances convey a great deal of information about the speaker in addition to their semantic content. One such type of information consists of cues to the s...
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...
We present a probabilistic model, based on Dynamic Decision Networks, to assess user affect from possible causes of emotional arousal. The model relies on the OCC cognitive theory...