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IFIP12
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching Autonomous Agents to Move in a Believable Manner within Virtual Institutions
Believability of computerised agents is a growing area of research. This paper is focused on one aspect of believability - believable movements of avatars in normative 3D Virtual W...
Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon J. Simoff, Marc Esteva, ...
AFRIGRAPH
2001
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A gesture processing framework for multimodal interaction in virtual reality
This article presents a gesture detection and analysis framework for modelling multimodal interactions. It is particulary designed for its use in Virtual Reality (VR) applications...
Marc Erich Latoschik
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Spontaneous Avatar Behavior for Human Territoriality
Abstract. The challenge of making a virtual world believable includes a requirement for AI entities which autonomously react to a dynamic environment. After the breakthroughs in be...
Claudio Pedica, Hannes Högni Vilhjálms...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Real ethics in a virtual world
This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Victoria McArthur