TOG
2002
14 years 2 days ago
2002
The ability to learn is a potentially compelling and important quality for interactive synthetic characters. To that end, we describe a practical approach to real-time learning fo...
AIEDU
2006
14 years 15 days ago
2006
This paper presents FearNot, a virtual learning environment populated by synthetic characters interacting in bullying scenarios, aimed at 8-12 year old children. FearNot was design...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Modeling synthetic characters which interact with objects in dynamic virtual worlds is important when we want the agents to act in an autonomous and non-preplanned way. Such inter...
AIIDE
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
We discuss the extension of an emotionally-driven agent architecture already applied to the creation of emergent narratives. Synthetic characters are enhanced to perform as actors...
ISMAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Unlike most existing work on traversable interfaces, we focus on the use of synthetic characters to accompany the user in Mixed Reality (MR) applications. We examine virtual compa...
ACII
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Using synthetic characters to support children’s personal, social and emotional education requires that the emotional response elicited from the children is that desired by educa...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
There is currently an ongoing demand for richer Intelligent Virtual Environments (IVEs) populated with social intelligent agents. As a result, many agent architectures are taking ...