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...
In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...
User-to-User Communication within Internet-based 3D Virtual Environments is usually difficult mainly due to the trade-off between the capability and the complexity of the interface...
We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...
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, ...