IDEAS4Games: Building expressive virtual characters for computer games

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

Volumn 5208 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 426-440

  Gebhard, Patrick ^a   Schröder, Marc ^a   Charfuelan, Marcela ^a   Endres, Christoph ^a   Kipp, Michael ^a   Pammi, Sathish ^a   Rumpler, Martin ^b   Türk, Oytun ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

AUTHORING TOOLS; COMBINED MODELING; COMPUTER GAMES; CREATION PROCESS; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI-MODAL; POKER GAME; STATE OF THE ARTS; VIRTUAL CHARACTERS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 52149119160     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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