After a brief overview of the elements of modern grid computing, a number of common use-cases of natural language processing tasks running on the grid are presented, notably corpu...
Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...
We present a novel framework for easy creation of interactive, platform-independent voice-services with an animated 3D talking-head interface, on mobile phones. The framework supp...
In this paper, we present our approach to modelling perceptive 3D virtual characters with emotion and personality. The characters are powered by a dialogue system that consists of...
Arjan Egges, Sumedha Kshirsagar, Xuan Zhang, Nadia...
: As Virtual Environments applications become more complex, there is a need to interpret user interaction in terms of high-level concepts. In this paper, we investigate the relatio...