Presenting in style by virtual humans

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4775 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 23-36

  Ruttkay, Zsófia ^a,b  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Markup language; Multimodal communication; Nonverbal behavior; Style; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HAND GESTURES; NONVERBAL SIGNALS; TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 38149116435     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76442-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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