This paper gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synt...
In this paper, we present a new framework for the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in engineering design for configuration applications. Traditional VR systems support the visual explo...
This paper presents a model for studying the impact of individual agents characteristics in emergent groups, on the evacuation efficiency as a result of local interactions. We use...
Adriana Braun, Soraia Raupp Musse, Luiz Paulo Luna...
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...
Researchers demand much from their embodied conversational agents (ECAs), requiring them to be both life-like, as well as responsive to events in an interactive setting. We find t...