Although many powerful AI and machine learning techniques exist, it remains difficult to quickly create AI for embodied virtual agents that produces visually lifelike behavior. T...
Jonathan Dinerstein, Parris K. Egbert, Dan Ventura
Mobile services can provide users with information relevant to their current circumstances. Distant services in turn can acquire local information from people in an area of intere...
Henriette S. M. Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Tim van Slo...
This paper describes an agent-based approach to realizing interactive pedagogical drama. Characters choose their actions autonomously, while director and cinematographer agents ma...
Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore
Fielding robots in complex applications can stress the human operators responsible for supervising them, particularly because the operators might understand the applications but n...
—The interactive scenarios realized in the two prototypes of Virtual Human require an approach that allows humans and virtual characters to interact naturally and flexibly. In th...