CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Agent design has to date concerned itself with the issues pertaining to a single body embedded in a single environment, whether virtual or real. This paper discusses the notion of...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Regardless of whether the humans involved are virtual or real, well-developed conversational skills are a necessity. The synthesis of interface agents that are not only understand...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Mapping of features such as texture and geometric detail is an important tool that enhances realism of surface geometry in graphics and animation. This essentially involves a tran...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Facial expressions play an important role in face-to-face communication. With the development of personal computers capable of rendering high quality graphics, computer facial ani...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Pedestrian navigation is a complex function of human dynamics, a desired destination, and the presence of obstacles. People cannot stop and start instantaneously and their turning...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper presents a model for studying the impact of individual agents characteristics in emergent groups, on the evacuation efficiency as a result of local interactions. We use...