A motivational model of action selection for virtual humans

Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 213-220

  De Sevin, Etienne ^a   Thalmann, Daniel ^a  

^a Section de Mathematiques Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Action selection; Attention; Autonomy; Motivations; Proactiveness; Reactivity; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

ACTION SELECTION; ATTENTION; AUTONOMY; MOTIVATIONS; PROACTIVENESS; REACTIVITY; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 27144475766     PISSN: 15301052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGI.2005.1500419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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