Avari is a virtual receptionist for the Computer Science department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her components include background subtraction to detect a per...
In this paper, we describe the development of a virtual human to be used for training applications in the field of cardiac emergencies. The system integrates AI techniques for sim...
We propose that an interactional perspective on how emotion is constructed, shared and experienced, may be a good basis for designing affective interactional systems that do not i...
It is argued that for the computer to be able to interact with humans, it needs to have the communication skills of humans. One of these skills is the ability to understand the em...
Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, Ira Cohen, Yafei Sun, T...
In this paper, I describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of behavioral and visual fidelity of avatars on users' social presence in syn...