People often hold their hands near their faces as a gesture in natural conversation, which can interfere with affective inference from facial expressions. However, these gestures ...
We propose a computational framework for the recognition of suspense and dramatic arc in stories. Suspense is an affective response to narrative structure that accompanies the redu...
Modern multi-core microprocessors implement weak memory consistency models; programming for these architectures is a challenge. This paper solves a problem open for ten years, and ...
Jade Alglave, Daniel Kroening, John Lugton, Vincen...
We present an efficient method for volume rendering by raycasting on the CPU. We employ coherent packet traversal of an implicit bounding volume hierarchy, heuristically pruned u...
Aaron Knoll, Sebastian Thelen, Ingo Wald, Charles ...
Narrative time has an important role to play in Interactive Storytelling (IS) systems. In contrast to prevailing IS approaches which use implicit models of time, in our work we ha...
Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, Fred Charles,...