Providing expressive gaze to virtual animated characters in interactive applications

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Queiroz, Rossana B ^a   Barros, Leandro M ^a   Musse, Soraia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavioral animation; Expressiveness; Eye animation; Facial animation; Gaze behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; APPLICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BEHAVIORAL ANIMATION; EXPRESSIVENESS; EYE ANIMATION; FACIAL ANIMATION; GAZE BEHAVIOR;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 56349126936     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1394021.1394034     Document Type: Article

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