With the increasing demand for spoken language interfaces in human-computer interactions, automatic recognition of emotional states from human speeches has become of increasing im...
Emotional appeal is a key dimension in user experience that often goes unmeasured in most user-centered design projects. This paper presents preliminary work for developing a set ...
We present our work on emotionally expressive avatars, animated virtual characters that can express emotions via facial expressions. Because these avatars are highly distinctive an...
Marc Fabri, Salima Y. Awad Elzouki, David J. Moore
This paper describes an agent-based approach to realizing interactive pedagogical drama. Characters choose their actions autonomously, while director and cinematographer agents ma...
Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore
A neural-network-based approach is proposed in this paper providing multimedia systems with the ability to adapt their performance to the specific needs and characteristics of thei...
George Votsis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D....