This paper presents a prototype dialogue system, K2, in which a user can instruct agents through speech input to manipulate various objects in a 3-D virtual world. The agents’ ac...
We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of life-like interface agents that is based on human eye movements rather than questionnaires. An eye tracker is employed to obta...
The MPEG-4 standard specifies a set of low-level animation parameters for body animation, but does not provide any high-level functionality for the control of avatars or embodied...
The Digital Library (DL) field is one of the most promising areas of application for information visualization technology. In this paper, we propose a visual user interface tool ki...
Nithiwat Kampanya, Rao Shen, Seonho Kim, Chris Nor...
Guidebots, or animated pedagogical agents, can enhance interactive learning environments by promoting deeper learning and improve the learner's subjective experience. Guidebo...