Physical controls such as knobs, sliders, and buttons are experiencing a revival as many computing systems progress from personal computing architectures towards ubiquitous comput...
Colin Swindells, Karon E. MacLean, Kellogg S. Boot...
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
This paper describes lessons learned in developing the linguistic, cognitive, emotional, and gestural models underlying virtual human behavior in a training application designed t...
Robert C. Hubal, Geoffrey A. Frank, Curry I. Guinn
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...
Narrative peaks are points at which the viewer perceives a spike in the level of dramatic tension within the narrative flow of a video. This paper reports on four approaches to na...