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IJVR
2007
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Real Time Animation and Illumination in Ancient Roman Sites
—The present article discusses and details the methodological approaches and the reconstruction strategies that have been employed to realize the 3D real-time virtual simulations...
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Alessandro Enrico Foni, G...
IJVR
2007
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Business Cases for Virtual Human Technology: Evaluation and Exploitation
—One of the main goals of the Virtual Human project was to develop technologies for using Virtual Humans as Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) to complex technical devices and system...
Alexander B. Reinecke, Markus Rössler, Nico G...
PRESENCE
2008
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MKM: A Global Framework for Animating Humans in Virtual Reality Applications
Virtual humans are more and more used in VR applications but their animation is still a challenge, especially if complex tasks must be carried-out in interaction with the user. In...
Franck Multon, Richard Kulpa, Benoit Bideau
IDT
2007
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Intelligent virtual humans with autonomy and personality: State-of-the-art
Intelligent virtual characters has been subject to exponential growth in the last decades and they are utilized in many application areas such as education, training, human-compute...
Zerrin Kasap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
HF
2007
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Social Facilitation Effects of Virtual Humans
When people do an easy task, and another person is nearby, they tend to do that task better than when they are alone. Conversely, when people do a hard task, and another person is...
Sung Park, Richard Catrambone
IJVR
2008
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14 years 13 days ago
An Emotion-based Adaptive Behavioural Model for Simulated Virtual Agents
Simulations utilizing virtual humans, or computer controlled agents, are more predominant now than ever. Many of these simulations suffer from a lack of effective, stimulating, and...
Ling Li, Sean MacDonnell
CE
2007
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Employing virtual humans for education and training in X3D/VRML worlds
Web-based education and training provides a new paradigm for imparting knowledge; students can access the learning material anytime by operating remotely from any location. Web3D ...
Lucio Ieronutti, Luca Chittaro
AIM
2006
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Toward Virtual Humans
This paper describes the virtual humans developed as part of the Mission Rehearsal Exercise project, a virtual reality-based training system. This project is an ambitious exercise...
William R. Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Randall W. H...
AAI
2010
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14 years 17 days ago
Maintaining engagement in Long-Term Interventions with Relational Agents
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin
DEFORM
2000
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Constructing Virtual Human Life Simulations
This paper describes an approach to construct interactive virtual environments, which are suitable for the development of artificial virtual human life simulations. Our main goal i...
Marcelo Kallmann, Etienne de Sevin, Daniel Thalman...