Maxine: A platform for embodied animated agents

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 430-437

  Baldassarri, Sandra ^a   Cerezo, Eva ^a   Seron, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animated characters; Multimodal interfaces; Natural interaction; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; EMBODIED ANIMATED AGENTS; EMOTIONAL INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIVE INTERFACES; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 49149089937     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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