This paper describes the development of Papous, a Virtual Storyteller. Our ultimate goal is to obtain a synthetic character that tells stories in an expressive and believable way, ...
Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify their own affective state, and then respond based on these outcomes through empathetic expression. Virtua...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Robert Ph...
In this paper, we describe MusicStory, a system that automatically creates videos to accompany music with lyrics. MusicStory uses common search engines, photo-sharing websites, an...
We introduce an experimental setting to observe and measure the perception of facial expression performed by embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The experimental set-up enables...
Michael Lankes, Regina Bernhaupt, Manfred Tschelig...
Old Dominion University (ODU) has been performing research in the area of training using virtual environments. The research involves both computer controlled agents and human part...
Frederic Rick McKenzie, Mark W. Scerbo, Jean M. Ca...