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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Can a virtual cat persuade you?: the role of gender and realism in speaker persuasiveness
This study examines the roles of gender and visual realism in the persuasiveness of speakers. Participants were presented with a persuasive passage delivered by a male or female p...
Catherine A. Zanbaka, Paula Goolkasian, Larry F. H...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
ICAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Steering Behavior Model of Visitor NPCs in Virtual Exhibition
Abstract. We propose steering behavior model to simulate virtual characters (NPC) which walk around in virtual exhibition environment and see exhibits one by one just like humans d...
Kyungkoo Jun, Mee Young Sung, Byoungjo Choi
IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Emotionally Expressive Head and Body Movement During Gaze Shifts
The current state of the art virtual characters fall far short of characters produced by skilled animators. One reason for this is that the physical behaviors of virtual characters...
Brent Lance, Stacy Marsella
IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Proactive Authoring for Interactive Drama: An Author's Assistant
Interactive drama allows people to participate actively in a dynamically unfolding story, by playing a character or by exerting directorial control. One of the central challenges f...
Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, David V. Pynadath
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Using Mixed Reality Agents as Social Interfaces for Robots
—Endowing robots with a social interface is often costly and difficult. Virtual characters on the other hand are comparatively cheap and well equipped but suffer from other diffi...
Mauro Dragone, Thomas Holz, Gregory M. P. O'Hare
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
The virtual raft project: a mobile interface for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
This paper presents a novel and intuitive paradigm for interacting with autonomous animated characters. This paradigm utilizes a mobile device to allow people to transport charact...
Bill Tomlinson, Man Lok Yau, Jessica O'Connell, Ks...