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ACII
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Facial Expression Synthesis Using PAD Emotional Parameters for a Chinese Expressive Avatar
Facial expression plays an important role in face to face communication in that it conveys nonverbal information and emotional intent beyond speech. In this paper, an approach for ...
Shen Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen M. Meng, Lianhong Ca...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Gains
Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations ha...
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Pao...
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Understanding RUTH: Creating Believable Behaviors for a Virtual Human Under Uncertainty
In pursuing the ultimate goal of enabling intelligent conversation with a virtual human, two key challenges are selecting nonverbal behaviors to implement and realizing those behav...
Insuk Oh, Matthew Stone
COST
2008
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Multimodal Human Machine Interactions in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
Gérard Chollet, Anna Esposito, Annie Gentes...
ISSE
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Agatha: Multimodal Biometric Authentication Platform in Large-Scale Databases
Biometric technologies are each time more demanded for security applications. In this sense, systems for identifying people are gaining popularity, especially in governmental sect...
David Hernando, David Gómez, Javier Rodr&ia...