Interactive virtual characters are nowadays commonplace in games, animations, and Virtual Reality (VR) applications. However, relatively few work has so far considered the animatio...
Matthias Weber, Guido Heumer, Heni Ben Amor, Bernh...
The future customer service provided by call centres will be changed due to new web-based interactive multimedia technologies. Technical support will be offered in a completely new...
Oliver Schreer, Ralf Tanger, Peter Eisert, Peter K...
AI has many techniques and tools at its disposal, yet seems to be lacking some special "juice" needed to create a true being. We propose that the missing ingredients are ...
We present here a system for controlling the eye gaze of a virtual embodied conversational agent able to perceive the physical environment in which it interacts. This system is ins...
Smart avatars are virtual human representations controlled by real people. Given instructions interactively, smart avatars can act as autonomous or reactive agents. During a real-...
Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan M. Allbec...