DEIRA is a virtual agent commenting on virtual horse races in real time. DEIRA analyses the state of the race, acts emotionally and comments about the situation in a believable an...
As virtual characters become more autonomous, their use in interactive drama is growing. By creating interesting and well authored personalities, these characters are able to inte...
Successful lighting in video games is more than a physically accurate illumination model. Aesthetics and function are of equal or greater importance. Lighting designers may deviat...
: In order to improve the automation rate of state-of-the-art IVR systems we introduce the application of two key technologies. Semantic processing is performed to analyze the inpu...
Felix Burkhardt, Joachim Stegmann, Markus Van Ball...
We present a probabilistic model, based on Dynamic Decision Networks, to assess user affect from possible causes of emotional arousal. The model relies on the OCC cognitive theory...