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...
Using synthetic characters to support children’s personal, social and emotional education requires that the emotional response elicited from the children is that desired by educa...
Lynne E. Hall, Sarah Woods, Marc Hall, Dieter Wolk...
Enabling machines to understand emotions and feelings of the human users in their natural language textual input during interaction is a challenging issue in Human Computing. Our w...
Li Zhang, Marco Gillies, John A. Barnden, Robert J...
CHI Systems, under contract to the U. S. Army Research Institute, is developing an immersive training system, called Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readines...
Chris McCollum, Charles Barba, Thomas Santarelli, ...
In this paper we will discuss different types of control over synthetic characters in interactive stories. We will argue that, to attain a deeper and more engaging control, in ce...