``Virtual'' is a potent buzzword, freely applied to many situations, with many meanings. In this exploratory study, we develop a more precise understanding of ``virtual...
Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, Katherine M. Chudoba, Ke...
In order to enhance user involvement in financial services, this paper proposes to combine the idea of adaptive personalisation with intelligent virtual agents. To this end, a comp...
Children with autism show substantial benefits from rigorous physical activity, however it is often difficult to motivate these individuals to exercise due to their usually sede...
Samantha L. Finkelstein, Andrea Nickel, Tiffany Ba...
We approach the problem of stylistic motion synthesis by learning motion patterns from a highly varied set of motion capture sequences. Each sequence may have a distinct choreogra...
Abstract. This paper presents a case study for using a relatively recently developed methodology, Behavior Oriented Design, to develop an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Our usabi...