The fields of human-robot interaction and entertainment robotics are truly interdisciplinary, combining the best of computer science, psychology, and mechanical engineering. Howe...
Typically, autonomous believable agents are implemented using static, hand-authored reactive behaviors or scripts. This hand-authoring allows designers to craft expressive behavio...
Peng Zang, Manish Mehta, Michael Mateas, Ashwin Ra...
Compelling synthetic characters must behave in ways that reflect their past experience and thus allow for individual personalization. We therefore need a method that allows charac...
Song-Yee Yoon, Robert C. Burke, Bruce Blumberg, Ge...
We present an interactive installation with life-size virtual agents that inform, entertain, encourage, and assist visitors during the process of building a car. It will be install...
With the most resource intensive tasks in games offloaded to special purpose processors, game designers now have the opportunity to build richer characters using more complex AI t...
Frederick W. P. Heckel, G. Michael Youngblood, D. ...