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CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Epidemic Spread in Synthetic Populations - Virtual Plagues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
A virtual plague is a process in which a behavior-affecting property spreads among characters in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). The MMOG individuals constitute a synt...
Magnus Boman, Stefan J. Johansson
PRESENCE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
MKM: A Global Framework for Animating Humans in Virtual Reality Applications
Virtual humans are more and more used in VR applications but their animation is still a challenge, especially if complex tasks must be carried-out in interaction with the user. In...
Franck Multon, Richard Kulpa, Benoit Bideau
AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Tears and fears: modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents
Emotions play a critical role in creating engaging and believable characters to populate virtual worlds. Our goal is to create general computational models to support characters t...
Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella
SG
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Visualizing Emotion in Musical Performance Using a Virtual Character
We describe an immersive music visualization application which enables interaction between a live musician and a responsive virtual character. The character reacts to live performa...
Robyn Taylor, Pierre Boulanger, Daniel Torres
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Autonomous virtual humans and lower animals: from biomechanics to intelligence
The confluence of virtual reality and artificial life, an emerging discipline that spans the computational and biological sciences, has yielded synthetic worlds inhabited by reali...
Demetri Terzopoulos