The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
This paper reports a pilot study of how to utilize simulated animal companions to encourage students to pay more effort in their study in the classroom environment. A class of stud...
In this article, we present the Association Engine, a multimedia installation that explores the space of language and exposes connections between words. It externalizes meaningful...
Sara Owsley, David A. Shamma, Kristian J. Hammond,...
Many virtual environments and games must be populated with synthetic characters to create the desired experience. These characters must move with sufficient realism, so as not to...
Michael Gleicher, Hyun Joon Shin, Lucas Kovar, And...
To create realistic and expressive virtual humans, we need to develop better models of the processes and dynamics of human emotions and expressions. A first step in this effort is...