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CHI
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The Persona Effect: Affective Impact of Animated Pedagogical Agents
Animated pedagogical agents that inhabit interactive learning environments can exhibit strikingly lifelike behaviors. In addition to providing problem-solving advice in response t...
James C. Lester, Sharolyn A. Converse, Susan H. Ka...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Designing empathic computers: the effect of multimodal empathic feedback using animated agent
Experiencing emotional distress is the number one reason why people who are undergoing behaviour modification (e.g. quitting smoking, dieting) suffer from relapses. Providing emot...
Hien Nguyen, Judith Masthoff
SCA
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Smooth movers: perceptually guided human motion simulation
To animate a character, a number of poses are displayed in quick succession in order to create the illusion of motion. For most real-time applications, such as games, the pose upd...
Rachel McDonnell, Fiona N. Newell, Carol O'Sulliva...
CGF
1999
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13 years 7 months ago
Animating Sand, Mud, and Snow
Computer animations often lack the subtle environmental changes that should occur due to the actions of the characters. Squealing car tires usually leave no skid marks, airplanes ...
Robert W. Sumner, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hod...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...