An interactive system in which the user can program animated agents visually is introduced: the Visual Agent Programming (VAP) software provides a GUI to program life-like agents. ...
In order to come across as life-like or animate, characters must change their attitudes (‘evolve’) as a consequence of their affective interaction histories with other agents....
In this paper we describe a new way to improve the usability of complex hardware setups in Intelligent Environments. By introducing a virtual character, we facilitate intuitive int...
We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of life-like interface agents that is based on human eye movements rather than questionnaires. An eye tracker is employed to obta...
With the increase of multimedia contents in the WWW, multimodal presentation using interactive life-like agents is attractive and becoming important. However, it is not easy for m...