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INTERACT
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Attentional Effect of Animated Character
: Research has found that animated characters are capable of capturing users’ attention, engaging them in active tasks, and entertaining them. Such capabilities are pedagogical t...
Cholyeun Hongpaisanwiwat, Michael Lewis
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
145views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
Talking Heads and Synthetic Speech: An Architecture for Supporting Electronic Commerce
Facial animation has been combined with text-to-speech synthesis to create innovative multimodal interfaces. In this paper, we present an architecture for this multimodal interfac...
Jörn Ostermann, David R. Millen
IWEC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Development of Extemporaneous Performance by Synthetic Actors in the Rehearsal Process
Autonomous synthetic actors must invent variations of known material in order to perform given only a limited script, and to assist the director with development of the performance...
Tony A. Meyer, Chris H. Messom
CORR
2007
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Modeling Epidemic Spread in Synthetic Populations - Virtual Plagues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
A virtual plague is a process in which a behavior-affecting property spreads among characters in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). The MMOG individuals constitute a synt...
Magnus Boman, Stefan J. Johansson
HCW
1998
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Implementing Distributed Synthetic Forces Simulations in Metacomputing Environments
A distributed, parallel implementation of the widely used Modular Semi-Automated Forces ModSAF Distributed Interactive Simulation DIS is presented, with Scalable Parallel Processo...
Sharon Brunett, Dan Davis, Thomas Gottschalk, Paul...